Examines the accuracy of newspaper headlines as compared with the corresponding story content for four Philadelphia daily newspapers. Results indicate that dailies with the tabloid format had a higher percentage of misleading and ambiguous headlines than the standard papers. (JMF)

Reports on the use of videoscreens at daily newspapers in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. Discusses the unchanged role of reporter, the changing role of the editor, and the changing relationship between newsroom staff and the back shop. (JMF)

Reports on the frequency and manner in which various crime and noncrime news topics were presented in selected newspapers and television newscasts in 1976. Examines news flow data to determine whether news output was inflexible, and whether crime news coverage distorted the amount of real-life crime. (PD)

Concludes that by distancing themselves from highly competitive but tainted phenomena, newsworkers and their organizations are able to meet their fundamental role obligation to create news while minimizing threats to their professional autonomy. Presents three examples of such attempts. (PD)

Compares judgments of journalists and scientific information sources (including industry representatives, government officials, environmental advocates, and academic scientists) about what makes a "high-quality" news story about environmental risk. Finds that there is a deeper desire among traditional news sources to support the status…

Constructs a model of the narrative structure of television news items by categorizing types of events, story subjects, actors, acted upon, narratives, themes, and symbols for a week of network and local news broadcasts. (JMF)

Describes a study to determine the type and quantity of Western news coverage of Third World earthquakes. Finds little evidence of geographical bias in coverage studied, and suggests that care must be taken to examine the underlying news events before bias is alleged. (MS)

Investigates how one media outlet, "Time" magazine, has reported American religion over the past 30 years. Observes that coverage patterns can be explained by its rhetorical protocol which demands action, conflict, and personality. "Time" follows this rhetorical formula in all varieties of news, including religious, because the…

Studies the accuracy of science reporting by comparing original research reports with their treatment in the popular press. Finds that most media reports, in the process of making science lively and acceptable, introduce some errors of omission, emphasis, or fact. Discusses potential effects on the credibility of scientists and scientific…

Examines factors within newspaper organizations that affect how hard reporters work in covering campaigns: (1) the influence of organizational structure and (2) the journalist's concept of professionalism. (PD)

Highlights the development of objective news reporting in commercial newspapers and the rise of journalism as a profession, legitimating its major institutional role as the self-announced protector of the public good. (JMF)

Examines three groups of studies that demonstrate what communication research has to say about the relationship between peace and news, between war and the media. Presents a model of five discourses used in the coverage of war and peace in the news media. (MS)

Examines the effects of media coverage of biomedical innovations, such as industrial recombinant DNA, on public opinion and public awareness of scientific events. (JMF)