Contributes to scholarship on the sociology of news making. Concludes that the relationship between journalists and news sources was shaped by the preferred meanings of a community's interpretive groups, including journalists and their news organizations. Uses examples from interviews with journalists and news sources to illustrate and…

Cites the first comprehensive proposal for an institutional approach to modern media research in Germany. (MH)

Examines two Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspapers' coverage of homicides. Finds that the newsworthiness of a homicide is enhanced when whites are suspects or victims, males are suspects, and victims are females, children, or senior citizens. Concludes that status deviance and cultural deviance are important components of newsworthiness and that…

Finds that, over the past century, stories in American newspapers have grown longer; include more analysis; expanded from specific locations to broader regions; place more emphasis on time frames other than the present; and name fewer individuals and more groups, officials, and outside sources. Notes that these trends affect coverage of three…

Compares newspaper readers' estimates of the incidence of specific crimes with the amount of news coverage that crime received and the readers' fears of being victimized with the crime news available to them. Suggests that newspaper emphasis upon relatively infrequent violent crimes may contribute to fear of criminal attack. (JMF)

Explores the dimensions of the question of competition in mass media and the diversity of information sources. (PD)

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)

Defines frame analysis as the study of the principles of organization which govern events and suggests that such analysis may aid in understanding the selection and definition of news events. (MH)

Concludes that Chinese media may one day be indistinguishable from their Western counterparts: promoting consumer goods, fostering television, dampening group discussion and active political interest, and presenting a conception of the world as an area for unresolved social conflict and drama. (PD)

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)

Discusses the results of two surveys among newspaper editors and readers about newspaper attributes and readers' interest. Results indicate a compromise caused by the marketing approach. (JMF)

Describes the controversies taking place in Sweden, West Germany, and England regarding the advisability of government subsidies as a way of maintaining a free and viable press in a period of economic strife. (JMF)

Analyzes media effects during the 1972 general election campaign and concludes that agenda-setting is indirectly effected by voters prior dispositions. (MH)

Examines Chinese press editorials and testimonials from members of the People's Liberation Army in an attempt to determine the meaning of Mao Tse Tung's vision of a new socialist man and the societal value transformation process. (MH)