It is necessary for journalism educators to introduce students to the world of desktop computers. In one journalism class at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, the instructor introduces his students to the computer in the first few days of class. He first walks them through the disk-formatting process; shows them how to get into and out of…

This booklet presents 12 activities to help high school journalism teachers and staff members balance the content of their publications and the staff makeup so that all groups of students in the school are represented. The first 11 activities in the booklet are classroom activities designed for teachers and students. The final activity is intended…

A study compared attitudes of editors and educators concerning how undergraduate news-editorial programs should respond to newspaper industry change, in particular new technology and changing reader needs. A questionnaire was mailed to 352 editors (representing small, medium-sized, and large newspapers) and 186 professors at undergraduate…

A study used protocol analysis to trace a group of specialized journalists' cognitive processing of information. Science writers were selected because they were hypothesized to be particularly sensitive to the needs of their audience and to rely more on audience knowledge when making decisions. Five science journalists (of about 25 contacted at…

A study explored the effects of both prior knowledge of acronyms and their form of presentation (cued or uncued) on reader recognition of acronym meaning. Among the hypotheses tested were that (1) a reader presented with an acronym ranked as familiar is more likely to recognize that acronym than one ranked unfamiliar, and (2) that a reader…

Hypothesizing that news stories written about a female source would have more personal and feminine information than stories written about a male source, even if all the information available to the reporter were identical, a study varied gender of source with male and female college student reporters randomly assigned to the male-source and…

A review of the literature on the computerization of newspaper newsrooms shows that since 1960, computers have assumed an increasingly important role in information collection, news writing and editing, pagination, and news transmission. When newspaper libraries are computerized, reporters are able to find information more quickly and to use…

A survey of 239 newspapers was conducted to explore the use of writing coach programs at these papers. The coaches' backgrounds, newsroom factors, specific writing problems, budgetary considerations, and implications for journalism education were all explored, as were the perceptions of editors supervising the writing coaches. Of the 239 papers…

This speech advocates the establishment of empirical standards for evaluating the success or failure of press performance. The ideal measure, as outlined in the speech, includes information on specific news coverage, the daily operation of the press, and the media institution's past performance. This information should be precisely gathered and…

This paper compares newspaper coverage of United Nations (UN) events in the United States and Great Britain, African and Asian nations, and in the black press in the United States. The method involved sampling UN-related coverage in 13 newspapers at four year intervals from 1949 to 1961 and for every second year from 1961 to 1977. Newspapers…

Intended as a practical guide for persons interested in the field of free lance writing, this book provides information on the following topics: the individual's response to the magazine publishing market; magazines and the types of articles that are marketable; methods for locating story material; ways of questioning and interpreting an editor's…

The relationship between the schools and the press who reports about them is the subject of this paper. It contains four speeches made at a 1973 meeting of the Council for Basic Education held in Washington D.C. Two school officials and two journalists offer their views on such subjects as training for educational writers, press bias, and the role…

Of a random sampling of 500 persons living in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, 167 were in the 21 to 34 age group whose newspaper reading habits and attitudes toward newspapers were being studied. The profile of that group's attitudes toward news media, particularly newspapers, shows that these young adults are less "newspaper oriented" than…

This handbook is intended as a reference tool for use in the college or university's public information office, news bureau, information services, or public relations office. An update of an earlier edition, it presents articles by a number of authors, some from CASE Currents, bulletin of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. It…

Designed for self study, this publication contains information to aid Naval personnel in meeting the occupational standards for advancement to Journalist First Class and Chief Journalist. The first section, a "Rate Training Manual," is divided into 11 chapters: The Path to Advancement, Public Affairs Policy and Procedures, Public Affairs…