A statistical summary of the newspaper industry for 1984 and previous years is presented in this brochure. Focusing primarily on the United States newspaper industry, the brochure also contains some information on Canadian newspapers. The brochure presents statistics in the following categories: (1) number of daily newspapers, (2) daily newspaper…

Time of final vote decision in a national presidential election campaign was explored as the dependent variable in a media effects study conducted earlier as part of the National Election Study of 1980. Political identity, a new measure of partisanship and independence known as the Partisan Supporter Typology, was used as an important contingent…

Intended for anyone interested in providing children with a quality alternative to current children's broadcast programing, this report presents the results of a survey of radio listening habits and attitudes. The report's introduction describes development of a pilot radio program for children by Children's Audio Service (CAS) unit of the…

This bibliography contains 143 listings under six main headings, with some overlapping of items. The stress is on recent works which update a 1969 bibliography of 400 items. (Author)

Supports the hypothesis that the news values of journalism students are strongly influenced by instructors in the course of only a single newswriting class. (Author/RB)

Concludes that the public's right to know affects the public employee's attitude toward information in his organization. (Author/RB)

This publication, the sixth in a series, presents abstracts of 149 publications on mass communication research and propaganda, written by social scientists in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland. For each abstract, information is provided about the language of the original document,…

Content analysis of seven newspapers during the 1972 Canadian federal election finds no evidence of collusion among editorialists of the chain-owned newspapers. (RB)

Supports the hypothesis that political caricatures are not static but can evolve over a relatively short period of time to reflect more positively or negatively on the person being caricatured. (RB)

A study examined whether advertising appeals based on product affiliation, achievement, and attributes would account for differences in male readership of liquor advertisements. The investigation focused on the relationship between the content of alcholic beverage advertisements and attention engagement, the first state in consumer information…

A study was conducted to compare "Time" and "Newsweek" magazines' fairness and coverage in the various presidential campaigns of the three Kennedy brothers. Researchers examined every story the two magazines published about John Kennedy's primary campaign, beginning January 1, 1960, and ending with his nomination at the…

A survey of editors of (1) the 100 largest newspapers in the United States, and (2) 50 newspapers in state capitols was conducted to examine their policies concerning the use of unnamed sources and unattributed information in news stories, and to measure the effects of the incident in which a "Washington Post" reporter fabricated a major…

A study analyzed the attitudes of newspaper subscribers and nonsubscribers to determine whether the two groups were truly distinct, homogenous segments of the public or whether there were "atypical" subscribers and nonsubscribers. Data were gathered through telephone interviews with more than 1,000 adults in the southeastern United…

Several reasons for studying motion pictures and patrons' attitudes toward them include the following: (1) current data show that motion pictures account for 53% of the total United States spectator amusement expenditures; (2) the average weekly United States movie attendance has plummeted by more than half since 1930; (3) despite this decline,…

Addressed are the history, present status and future challenges of environmental communication, defined as "the process of planning, producing and dissemination, or conducting research related to, written, spoken and/or pictorial messages about the environment, environmental issues and/or environmental management." The focus of this monograph is…