News Research Journal

This study examines how 70 U.S. mid-size newspapers use Twitter and suggests news staffs may not be using this social medium to the best advantage. Most are using automated feeds, tweeting the same headlines—shovel-ware—as in the newspapers.

This analysis of 100 blogs finds that local public affairs bloggers do not rely on newspapers for the majority of their sources. They are more likely to use originial sources and original reporting, particularly when writing about local topics commonly ignored by the news media.

This analysis finds sources used by The Times in its coverage of the war on drugs changed after Sept. 11. Consistent with the U.S. government's narco-terrorism initiative, The Times cited more U.S. State Department and law enforcement sources than before the attacks.

A comparison of the digital and print newspapers in Seattle and Minneapolis indicates that online readers get a different mix of top news stories. Online newspapers focused on old-style news—crime, disaster and sports—while print offered more on politics, environment and education.

An exploratory study of reporters at newspapers and television stations finds that newspaper reporters are not as actively engaged in using social media for personal news branding compared with television and web/online reporters.

This content analysis of two weekly African American newspapers and the daily newspapers in two Florida cities finds that community affairs, politics and religion are covered more frequently in the black press, while sports stories appear more frequently in the dailies.

A content analysis challenges the notion that elite newspapers can speak for local dailies. Gulf dailies focused on the environment until the well was capped and then shifted to the local economy, while the national dailies focused on the accident.

A study of photographic coverage of political candidates in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal in the 2010 mid-term election reveals fairly equal coverage of both Democrats and Republicans. Both newspapers were found to be balanced in their treatment of the candidates.