A frame analysis was conducted to explore themes in recent coverage by print journalists of the college application process, with special attention paid to the use by reporters of "keywords, stock phrases, stereotyped images, sources of information, and sentences that provide reinforcing clusters of facts or judgments" (Entman, p. 52) about this…

A study of the accuracy of news stories in ten professional newspapers and a university newspaper provided data on many aspects of accuracy and revealed that the student newspaper had more than twice as many errors per story, and a much higher percentage of factual errors, than did the professional newspapers. (GT)

A study examined the readership habits and gratifications of southern Illinois student and non-student newspaper readers. The study involved the "Southern Illinoisan," a privately owned regional newspaper, and the "Daily Egyptian," a student-operated newspaper. Other papers included the "Chicago Tribune," the…

To explore characterizations of acts of political violence and their perpetrators, a study considered the most frequently used characterizations in the "Los Angeles Times," the "New York Times," and the "Washington Post" for the years of 1980-1985, and considered whether characterizations differed depending on their…

The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 is frequently viewed as a legislative device for averting the failure of a competing metropolitan daily newspaper and is said to create, for the formerly competing newspapers, a monolithic management unit which enjoys advantages over the two publishing units it replaces. A study examined one of those…

Indicates that nearly all of the newspaper advertisements examined contained at least one information cue and that one-third contained four or more cues, with an average of 2.8 per ad. Suggests that newspaper advertisements are more "informative" than television and magazine advertisements. (JD)

Updates trends in local newspaper ownership. Finds the number of cities with competing dailies and jointly owned dailies declining. Finds that the number of chain-owned papers and the size of chains have increased. (RS)

Examines how corrections are handled for both daily and weekly Arkansas newspapers. Finds that, although most papers publish corrections, less than one fourth have written correction policies. (RS)

William Stephenson's ludenic newsreading theory, which asserts that the newsreading situation is not one in which information is passed from a communication source to a receiver, but one in which the individual plays with communication, is examined in this study. Four postulates from the theory are tested in relation to student newspaper demands:…

Concludes that the daily newspaper field, despite its relatively constant total numbers, is in a constant state of flux. (RB)

Reports the results of two studies. The first determines that providing camera-ready copy is a cost-effective method of getting information published in newspapers. The second suggests that newspapers take longer to publish releases that are related to topics in the news. (MS)

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)