News Research Journal

Competing newspapers can form joint operations very close to what is permitted under the Newspaper Preservation Act without having to deal with the NPA, or the costly litigation process involved in the NPA.

The findings of this study don't support that conclusion. Even among a sample with more education than the general population, inclusion of methodological information did not assist in understanding statistically-oriented news. And, those who could recall information had trouble understanding what it meant.

The relationship between Michigan weeklies and satellite dailies was stronger than expected. It may be that readers do not distinguish between weeklies and dailies to the degree that journalists and scholars do. If weeklies provide a good local newspaper, they may be acceptable substitutes for dailies among a significant percent of readers in a county.

Students on at least one California campus are likely to read their campus weekly newspaper and a local community daily. What they are not likely to read is the community daily. That readership is below anything shown for 18–24 year olds in national surveys and significantly below figures cited for college students living away from home.

The Cohen v. Cowles court decision makes it easier for news sources to win lawsuits if confidentiality is breached, but substantial proof is required to collect damages.

Job appeal factors and job satisfaction motivations of black journalists are not very different from those found in studies of white journalists. The findings suggest that managers who want to make progress in increasing minority employment and retention should emphasize both job advancement possibilities and minority representation in managerial positions.

Better prepared sales people, capable of market planning and interpretation of research, would be welcomed by local advertisers; and improvements in ordering procedures would also make the sales representative more effective.

Women Washington reporters believe the status of their publication is the biggest factor in determining their access to news sources and that the difficulty women have in getting jobs with high status publications affects their ability to report.

Jolliffe responds to Barbara Luebke's NRJ commentary “No More Content Analyses” (Winter/Spring 1992). But this author says, “Don't stop now! We're just beginning to see these studies with new eyes.”

Harte-Hanks decision makes actual malice harder to prove even though it reinforces use of circumstantial evidence.

Most new hires by newspaper advertising managers have college degrees, sales experience and have lived in the community.

Resistance to job burnout requires a sense of involvement in ones work, a high degree of peer cohesion and supervisor support, a strong sense of personal autonomy and a sense of physical comfort. But in this study, copy editors were found to be significantly less satisfied with their work environment and to feel less involved, less encouraged to make their own on-the-job decisions, and less physically comfortable than were reporters.

Anonymous sources, though used in the profiles of both Patricia Bowman and William Kennedy Smith, were used much more extensively for Bowman and gave much more negative impressions.

Creative vision has been joined by technological capability to generate a surge in the number and variety of graphic devices on newspaper pages. And this has been accompanied by an expansion in the role of graphic departments.