Discusses how weekly supermarket tabloids report and write their stories, the relationship tabloid writing has to "straight" journalistic practice, and how tabloid writers relate to such journalistic tenets as objectivity and credibility. Finds that tabloid journalism belongs on the same storytelling continuum as daily newspaper…

Introduces the transitivity model of textual analysis, assesses its application to news reports, and discusses the critical linguistic background in which it has proved popular. (JK)

Contributes to scholarship on journalistic narrative method, socially responsible journalism, and journalism education by examining a three-part series in the "New York Times" portraying life on a single block in Harlem. Finds that the systematic use of personalization reproduced stereotypes and suppressed evidence that would counter…

Takes a critical look at the idea of "news routines." Examines a politically oppositional news room to determine which elements of production make its news "oppositional." Argues that economic and organizational factors help determine news content more than do routines. (RAE)

Discusses how the Janet Cooke scandal stimulated journalists to reflect on changes that had occurred in the field since the 1960s and to consider the increasingly visible contradictions of their own authority. Describes how Cooke symbolized both the increased presence of minorities in journalism and changes in reporting conventions. (JD)