Analyzes 67 daily and nondaily newspapers from six stratified United States regions: lower South, upper South, border states, middle states, North, and West for years 1820 through 1860 to determine how they covered the topic of slavery. Concludes that all newspapers increased slavery news coverage during that period, with Southern editors most…

Traces the development of the "new journalism" that appeared in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and shows how it influenced European news publications. (FL)

Investigates how news pictures in two national news magazines have portrayed the world and the United States to their readers. Concludes that both magazines used far more news pictures about the United States than about foreign countries and that international news pictures were more violent-oriented than United States pictures. (FL)

Suggests that the United States Supreme Court is moving toward a broad, constitutionally enforcable right of access. Offers support for this from an examination of the opinions delivered in "Richmond" and their logical implications. (FL)

Traces the steps taken by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its entry into foreign language broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s. (FL)

Concludes that the editorial presentation of a story can have significant effects on an audience's perceptions of a story's target. (FL)

Argues that different ways of calculating professionalism scores lead to different conclusions concerning demographic and attitudinal variables. (FL0

A study of the coverage of 14 major events of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals little evidence that newspaper journalists wrote their leads to correspond with those of wire service stories. (FL)

Reveals that some respondents to a survey concerning attitudes toward ethics view ethical problems as involving objectivity, while others see them in terms of extra-professional morality. (FL)

Concludes that cultural identity does not seem to differentiate newspaper readership or time spent with newspapers among Hispanics. (FL)

Notes that the childrens' television program Sesame Street, is successful because the role of research throughout its seven years has been of major importance-the researcher is part of the crew. (Author/AM)

Updates important studies of women and blacks in mass media advertising and concludes that, in general, negative stereotyping still exists. (MH)

Suggests that advertising in "Ebony," a magazine oriented toward the black population, reflects a general trend towards increasing use of black models and black products. (MH)

Defines the consciousness scale as a measurement technique which divides media protrayals of women into five conceptually-derived categories that can be placed in ordinal relationships with one another. Suggests that such a scale may be useful as a tool for analyzing mass media content. (MH)

College student subjects were presented one of four versions of a simulated news broadcast. Audio-plus-print elicited the highest recall scores. Print alone generated more involvement than videotape or audio-plus-print.