Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly back issues from April 2007:
EXPLORING INTERNET INFLUENCE ON THE COVERAGE OF SOCIAL PROTEST: CONTENT ANALYSIS COMPARING PROTEST COVERAGE IN 1967 AND 1999
Apr 01, 2007; ... This study examined the coverage of two social protests set three decades apart. Findings showed that journalists covering anti-WTO protests in 1999 relied on official and authoritative sources more than journalists covering anti-Vietnam war protests in 1967, despite today's Internet-enabled ...
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT
Apr 01, 2007; ... During the last five years, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly has published 219 articles. Each has been reviewed by two and often three reviewers selected for their substantive and methodological expertise, and each has undergone a process or processes of revision before final ...
IMPLICIT MEMORY MEASURES FOR WEB ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS
Apr 01, 2007; ... Most studies investigating memory for advertisements have relied heavily on examining effects of explicit memory. In the Web advertising environment, however, consumers often try to avoid Web ads during online activities, resulting in poor explicit memory and dismal click-through rates. The ...
EVALUATING PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN NEWSPAPER OPINION ARTICLES: VALUES-FRAMING AND INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY IN SUBSTANCE AND HEALTH POLICY ISSUES
Apr 01, 2007; ... EVALUATING PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN NEWSPAPER OPINION ARTICLES: VALUES-FRAMING AND INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY IN SUBSTANCE AND HEALTH POLICY ISSUES The exchange of opinions is an important component of participatory democracies, and newspaper forum pages have been hailed as a conduit for such ...
TV NEWS COVERAGE OF PLASTIC SURGERY, 1972-2004
Apr 01, 2007; ... TV NEWS COVERAGE OF PLASTIC SURGERY, 1972-2004 This study content analyzed all of the 265 news story abstracts on various types of plastic surgery from the five major TV networks during the past three decades. Coverage increased during the time periods, concentrating in the 1990s when ...
EFFECTS OF SPONSORSHIP CONGRUITY ON E-SPONSORS AND E-NEWSPAPERS
Apr 01, 2007; ... This study examines psychological responses to e-sponsors and e-newspapers as a function of sponsor congruity. The method is a 3 (sponsor congruity) x 2 (section) x 4 (news story) x 4 (e-newspapers) within-groups experiment. Participants were student and non-student adults. The high congruity ...
A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA EFFECTS LITERATURE
Apr 01, 2007; ... This study focuses attention on scholarship on mass media effects. Our purpose is to profile that effects literature in terms of specific medium tested, type of content, use of theory, use of method, and type of effect. We conducted a content analysis of the mass media effects literature ...
SATISFACTION VS. SACRIFICE: SPORTS EDITORS ASSESS THE INFLUENCES OF LIFE ISSUES ON JOB SATISFACTION
Apr 01, 2007; ... SATISFACTION VS. SACRIFICE: SPORTS EDITORS ASSESS THE INFLUENCES OF LIFE ISSUES ON JOB SATISFACTION A survey (N = 184) and interviews examine issues that influence job satisfaction among newspaper sports editors. The results indicate that perceived organizational support has a strong, ...
A NATURAL HISTORY OF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE: A STUDY OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, 1900-1921
Apr 01, 2007; ... This longitudinal study combines quantitative and qualitative techniques to document and explain the evolution of foreign news in the Chicago Daily News, the newspaper that virtually invented the ideal of a quality, professional American foreign news service. Foreign news at the newspaper began ...
The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity. Arlene Notoro Morgan, Alice Irene Edwards, and Keith Woods, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 354 pp. $45 pbk. An oft-quoted line from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois states that "The problem of the ...
The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965/Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965. David R. Davies. 200 pp. $109.95 hbk. Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present. James Brian McPherson. 256 pp. $139.95 hbk. (The History of American Journalism Series, James D. Startt and Wm. David Sloan, eds.) Westport, ...
THE BANNING OF BILL TILDEN: AMATEUR TENNIS AND PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM IN JAZZ-AGE AMERICA
Apr 01, 2007; ... In 1924, the USLTA announced that any amateur tennis player would be banned from competition if he or she accepted money for writing about the sport. Bill Tilden, a journalist before he became the world's No. 1 player, responded that he would retire from tennis rather than give up journalism ....
Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture
Apr 01, 2007; ... Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture. Jeffrey P. Jones. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 242 pp. $29.95 pbk. Jeffrey P. Jones challenges existing assumptions about the nature of mediated civic engagement and the forms it must take in Entertaining ...
The Best American Magazine Writing 2006
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Best American Magazine Writing 2006. American Society of Magazine Editors. New York: Columbia University Press. 2006, 464 pp. $16.50 pbk. In his introduction to Best American Magazine Writing 2006, the editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, points out what might be considered one of ...
Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
Apr 01, 2007; ... Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. 376 pp. $42 hbk. $22 pbk (2005). The good news is that this excellent exegesis of millennia-old tensions between words and images is available in ...
Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
Apr 01, 2007; ... Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local. Jock Lauterer. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 432 pps. $29.95 pbk. Those of us who teach news writing have many choices when it comes to textbooks. Each has its strengths and none covers ...
WATCHING THE WATCHDOGS: FBI SPYING ON JOURNALISTS IN THE 1940S
Apr 01, 2007; ... Although lacking legal authority, the FBI spied on newspaper labor activists during the 1940s. Previously undisclosed documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance as part of the agency's effort to monitor domestic ...
Get a Freelance Life: mediabistro. com's Insider Guide to Freelance Writing
Apr 01, 2007; ... Get a Freelance Life: mediabistro. com's Insider Guide to Freelance Writing. Margit Feury Ragland. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006. 320 pp. $14.00 pbk. To be or not to be a freelance writer? That is the question Margit Feury Ragland asks in the opening to her down-to-earth book, Get a ...
Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare
Apr 01, 2007; ... Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare. Herbert N. Foerstel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. 180 pp. $39.95 hbk. As the methods of fighting wars change, so do the methods and dangers of covering the fighting. Conventional wars such as World War I and World War II saw ...
Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
Apr 01, 2007; ... Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. Mark Poster. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 303 pp. $22.95 pbk. Mark Poster's Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines is the fourth volume in a series that applies critical ...
The Ethics of the Story: Using Narrative Techniques Responsibly in Journalism
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Ethics of the Story: Using Narrative Techniques Responsibly in Journalism. David Craig. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 208 pp. $27.95 pbk. A skim through the table of contents of The Ethics of the Story could lead the casual reader to perceive this book as a typical ...
The Environmental Communication Yearbook. Vol. 2
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Environmental Communication Yearbook. Vol. 2. Susan L. Senecah, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.173 pp. $59.95 hbk. In recent decades, social scientists and communication scholars have been drawn to environmental issues. They've learned that when different actors ...
Managing Television News: A Handbook for Ethical and Effective Producing
Apr 01, 2007; ... Managing Television News: A Handbook for Ethical and Effective Producing. B. William Silcock, Don Heider, and Mary T. Rogus. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. 272 pp. $37.50 pbk. Some would argue that the days of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite have passed. No longer is ...
Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting - Journalism and Tragedy in Yugoslavia
Apr 01, 2007; ... Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting - Journalism and Tragedy in Yugoslavia. Peter Brock. Los Angeles, CA: Graphics Management Press, 2006. 328 pp. $19.95 pbk. Iconic imagery often accompanies modern warfare. In Vietnam, it may be the photo of a street execution during the Tet offensive that ...
Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea
Apr 01, 2007; ... Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea. Evangelia Papoutsaki and Dick Rooney, eds. Madang, Papua New Guinea: DWU Press, 2006. 243 pp. About U.S. $16 pbk. In-depth studies of journalism and media systems in developing countries are a rarity. Thus, Media, Information and ...
Plain Dealing: Ohio Politics and Journalism Viewed from the Press Gallery
Apr 01, 2007; ... Plain Dealing: Ohio Politics and Journalism Viewed from the Press Gallery. Richard G. Zimmerman. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006. 130 pp. $19.95 pbk. Every fourth November, pundits label Ohio the eye of a presidential storm, a fact that makes Richard G. Zimmerman's jaunty ...
Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico
Apr 01, 2007; ... Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico. Sallie Hughes. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 296 pp. $22.95 pbk. A rich literature documents Mexico's recent democratic transformation and the media's role in that change. In the latest addition ...
Realer Than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary
Apr 01, 2007; ... Realer Than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary. David Hogarth. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006.198 pp. $50 hbk. $19.95 pbk. The documentary form was originally a genre created for film distribution. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, documentaries began to be broadcast on ...
News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity
Apr 01, 2007; ... News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity. Laura Castañeda and Shannon Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 328 pp. $80.95 hbk. $36.95 pbk. Hardly a day passes without some aspect of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender life appearing in the news, not only in ...
The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce
Apr 01, 2007; ... The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce. Michael S. Sweeney. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006. 302 pp. $24.95 pbk. Historically, military leaders and journalists have had a tense relationship at best. After describing the dichotomy between the military's desire to ...
Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media
Apr 01, 2007; ... Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media. Laura Stein. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 184 pp. $35 cloth. In 1967 legal scholar Jerome A. Barren launched a campaign to create a First Amendment right of citizen access to the increasingly ...
Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest
Apr 01, 2007; ... Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest. Jill A. Edy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. 240 pp. $22.95 pbk. Riots flared in Los Angeles following the 1992 trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused of assaulting Rodney King. News media ...