Newspaper Research Journal back issues from June 1997:
Protecting 1st Amendment? Newspaper coverage of hate speech.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Hate speech tends to be covered as a campus issue with emphasis on speech codes, events and absence of discussion of First Amendment implications.In the pressures of a free society, the media have ample opportunities to elucidate issues of free expression. Hate speech provides one ...
Role of special sections and subsidiary publications in competitive environment.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Newspapers are developing their own niche products primarily to generate advertising revenue, but increased readership also may be a goal.ewspapers today operate in an increasingly competitive market for both readers and advertising dollars. There are continued and increasing ...
City characteristics and coverage of China's bid to host the Olympics.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Coverage of China's bid to host the 2000 Olympics was negative overall. Newspapers in communities with higher education levels, more professional people, more Asian Americans and more avid readers were less favorable in coverage.n December 4, 1991, China submitted an official ...
Fairness and balance in election reporting: the 1994 governor's race in Michigan.
Jun 22, 1997; ... This study finds that one candidate dominated news coverage. Reporters believe that information gathering procedures are the reason.Fairness and balance are central ethical tenants in modern American journalism,(1) but defining and assessing them are formidable problems. Subjective ...
L.A. Times coverage of Korean Americans before, after 1992 riots.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Though Times' efforts to cover more varied aspects of the Korean American community more frequently were successful, Korean Americans' image in the newspaper did not significantly improve after the riots.After the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers who had ...
Online services, Internet in 1995 newsrooms.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Survey finds new focus on Internet and more newspapers willing to spend more money for online services.Contemporary newsroom research centers feature gleaming PCs, richly colored large-screen monitors, fast modems and direct Internet connections, speedy CD-ROM readers and ...
Modeling the problem: de novo entry into daily newspaper markets.
Jun 22, 1997; ... This financial projection model indicates a new daily entering a market against an existing daily would suffer huge monetary losses for the first 10 years.The difficulties of maintaining competitive daily newspaper markets have long been recognized and led to waves of closures of ...
Relational privacy cases and freedom of information.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Study finds that if relational privacy reasoning is taken to its logical conclusion, access would be curtailed to a broad range of information related to deceased persons that has traditionally been available under federal and state access laws.On August 26, 1990, while students ...
Does newspaper call-in line expand public conversation?
Jun 22, 1997; ... This comparison of a call-in column and letters to editor finds that the column expanded public dialogue. However, call-in column contents were more likely to be primarily opinion with relatively few facts.Many newspaper readers who want to add their voices to a public debate can ...
Newspaper ombudsmen's reactions to use of anonymous sources.
Jun 22, 1997; ... Surveys of ombudsmen find that most feel their papers use anonymous sources about the right amount and that the public does not object to such use.Journalists are ambivalent about the use of anonymous sources: They criticize their overuse, yet they often depend on them for ...
Personal History. <Subdivision>
(book reviews)</Subdivision>
Jun 22, 1997; ... Thumbnail sketches of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham often describe her as a housewife suddenly called on to oversee a media empire upon the death of her husband. They portray her as a middle-aged woman unprepared for the task. Perhaps the most enlightening aspect of her memoir, ...
Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater. <Subdivision>
(book reviews)</Subdivision>
Jun 22, 1997; ... Is this the book Democrats have been waiting for? Finally, a journalist presenting the other side of the Whitewater story?Oh, no. In Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater, Gene Lyons writes little about the integrity of the current American president and much about ...