Compares the content of competitive newspapers and monopoly newspapers, stating that competition has an impact on daily newspaper content. Notes that competitive newspapers have more reporters and buy more wire services than comparable newspapers without competition. (MM)

Examines characteristics of weekly newspaper editors in 21 states in the south, midwest, and west regions of America at the beginning of the "modern" newspaper era (1900). Reports that weekly editors tended to be White, male, and middle-aged. (MM)

Indicates that (1) newspaper competition had a significant impact on newspapers' use of color and graphics, (2) television competition had no impact, and (3) the number of newspapers in a group had only a limited relationship to the use of graphics and color. (JD)

Tests James N. Rosse's model stating that there are layers of newspapers that compete with each other in a given area. Concludes that the effect of competition is greater for smaller newspapers and that newspaper executives see competition increasing in the next decade. (FL)

A study examined the effect of market structure on suburban newspaper circulation and existence, specifically investigating whether the structure of the central city newspaper market influences the following: (1) the existence of a weekly or bi-weekly suburban newspaper; (2) the existence of a daily suburban newspaper; and (3) the circulation of…

Presents a model of news demand to explain why intense competition may produce higher quality newspapers. (MM)

To explore the theoretical relation of newspaper competition to overall news quality, a study used a model of newspaper competition based on economic assumptions to investigate whether the product quality of a newspaper is positively related to the financial expenditure on it, and whether newspaper circulation is positively related to quality.…

Contributes to scholarship on assessing environmental policy with economic analysis, and to journalism scholarship by analyzing six large newspapers' economic coverage of motor vehicle emissions standards. Finds that all but one paper explicitly referred to cost-benefit analysis as a method to evaluate the standards, but that five papers reported…

A study was conducted to discover why investigation of one of the most important trends in the newspaper industry during the past century, the decline of newspaper competition within a city, has produced conflicting results. The study reviewed existing literature to learn why this is so, and also to determine if direct daily newspaper competition…

Examines the most efficient method of sampling content from five years of daily newspaper editions. Notes that selecting 9 constructed weeks from 5 years is more efficient than the 10 constructed weeks suggested by previous research. Finds this rule holds provided the variables being measured do not have large variances. (RS)

A study examined whether intercity competition affects the content of daily newspapers and whether the content profile is consistent with the umbrella competition theory elaborated by James N. Rosse. Rosse's theory hypothesized four layers of newspaper competition--large metropolitan dailies, satellite daily papers, suburban dailies, and weekly…

Efforts to discover what variables affect news media content have taken many approaches during the past 35 years. These approaches have emphasized psychological factors, sociological factors, cultural and social forces, and economic factors. Evidence exists that all these forces play a role in determining what becomes news. To examine how these…

Noting that technology in the field of graphics and printing has permitted greater use of color, photographs, and graphics by newspapers, a study examined the effects of economic factors such as newspaper competition and ownership on the actual use of new technology for color and graphics. The newspaper sample, stratified on the basis of ownership…