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Examines the implications of market-driven journalism for daily newspaper content. Impact of market-driven journalism on U.S. news organizations; Reasons for the controversial nature of market-oriented journalism; Topics covered in papers with relatively strong and weak market orientations.

This quantitative content analysis applies the theory of instrumental actualization to Swiss newspaper coverage of smoking bans in public places. The theory holds that journalists' opinions affect news selection; it is studied here for the weighting and evaluation of arguments in news stories. The editorial stance of newspapers was related to the weighting of argumentative fields and the frequency of contradiction of different standpoints. Therefore, elements of both a dialectical (papers of different stance explicitly contradicting one another) and a rhetorical (papers of different stance speaking of different matters) model of discourse were [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assesses the importance of subgroup influence within the context of higher-level predictors of design variability, including newspaper competition and usability of technology. Impact of variability in newspaper design on the paper's economic and cultural trends; Traditional predictors of design variability; Influence of occupational subgroups in newsrooms.

Reports on the results of a four-year case study of organizational development at the "Saint Louis Post-Dispatch," a newspaper founded by Joseph Pulitzer. Connection between change initiatives and producing a better newspaper; Challenges faced by the paper at the end of the 20th century; Contribution of "Saint Louis Post-Dispatch" editor Cole C. Campbell to the field of journalism.

This paper examines newspaper coverage of protests from 1960 to 1999. Initial findings indicated protests received consistent levels of support over that time. In light of this, we expected little change in the extent to which these protests challenged the status quo. However, there was a steady decline, with protest coverage becoming less deviant throughout this study. Further analyses suggest disparities in coverage of different protest-types were apparent during the Vietnam War. The most drastic change in treatment of different protest-types was directly after the height of the anti-war movement followed by gradual change thereafter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the subject index of the articles published in this journal. Some of the articles based on newsgathering are "Beauty and the Beasts: Significance of Press Coverage of the 1913 National Suffrage Parade," by Linda J. Lumsden, "Civic Journalism and Nonelite Sourcing: Making Routine Newswork of Community Connectedness," by Brian L. Massey, "Comparing Distinctions and Similarities across Websites of Newspapers, Radio Stations, and Television Stations," by Carolyn A. Lin and Leo W. Jeffres, "Differences in Knowledge Acquisition Among Readers of the Paper and Online Versions of a National Newspaper," by David Tewksbury and Scott L. Althaus, "The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspapers' Gatekeeping Role Online," by Jane B. Singer, "The Mundane and the Arcane: Prestige Media Coverage of Social and Natural Science," by William Evans, "News of Hurricane Andrew: The Agenda of Sources and the Sources' Agendas," by Michael B. Salwen.

A survey of 4,800 news sources cited in fourteen newspapers provides a cross-market assessment of newspaper accuracy and the effect of errors on newspaper credibility. Sources found errors in 61% of local news and feature stories, an inaccuracy rate among the highest reported in nearly seventy years of accuracy research. Newspaper credibility, as perceived by news sources, significantly declined in relation to frequency and severity of errors. Inaccuracy negatively affected source willingness to cooperate with the press. Subjective errors were considered most egregious, suggesting that how a story is conveyed is at least as important as getting the facts straight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzed the frequency and placement given to male and female sources and story subjects in newspaper coverage and their relationship to the gender of the reporter. A content analysis of 889 stories found that male sources and subjects received more mentions and were placed more prominently in the stories. Controlling for structural and editorial influences, results indicated that the presence of females in the byline is a significant predictor of females appearing within the news story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on a study, which examined whether a similar normalization effect can be seen in online adaptations of the journalistic role in the political process. Significance of Web sites for journalists; Results of a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, which focused on the usage of the Internet during the 2000 election in the U.S.; Key attributes of the Web site that counter criticisms of traditional media coverage of campaigns and elections; Increase in the number of newspapers that offered sections of their Web sites to election coverage.

Focuses on an ethnographic case study on how a newspaper in the United States deals with the conflict between alternative and mainstream journalism. Details on mainstream journalism; Definition of journalism; What is implied by objectivity.

Focuses on the relationship between the Chicago newspapers and the wider community between 1880 and 1930. Suggestion that Chicago journalism was complex; Information on the specialized and foreign language newspapers that existed; Number daily papers between 1880 and 1900; Description of Chicago's ethnic diversity during this time.

This article focuses on the subject index of the articles published in this journal. Some of the articles from editorial page are "Myth and Terror on the Editorial Page: The New York Times Responds to September 11, 2001," by Jack Lule, "Racial and Regional Differences in Readers' Evaluations of the Credibility of Political Columnists by Race and Sex," by Julie L. Andsager and Teresa Mastin.

This article analyzes quantitatively and qualitatively 1,583 comments by national newspapers' online readers in Bulgaria. It investigates readers' reactions to articles discussing the media war between the biggest press groups--one owned by a Member of Parliament known as "the Murdoch of the East." The study explores how these stories influence the relationship between newspapers and their readers, and whether they enhance the democratic potential of online discussion. The results show a higher level of reader engagement than in established democracies or nondemocracies. The online space provides an arena for democratic conversations and it is also used as an engine for conspiracy theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explores to what extent new communication technologies have played a revolutionizing role in the ways in which news reporters acquire information. Reporters reconstructed how they used different technologies in order to obtain each of their sampled items, both before and after the introduction of new communication technologies into the Israeli daily press. Changes appear to be minor. Reporters continued to contact sources directly, negotiate their versions orally, and use technologies to replace physical presence at news scenes and face-to-face interviews. This relative stability might reflect the fact that, in the interplay between forces for continuity (represented by the ongoing patterns of newswork) and forces for change (suggested by the new technologies), the role of the former has been dominant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the September 2005 issue of "Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly." The first four articles in this issue address in varying ways, the subject of quality in journalism. Wilson Lowrey's article explores "institutional isomorphism," or the extent to which organizations move to become similar to others. He has adapted institutional theory from the study of organizations to explore whether newspapers and television stations pursue partnerships for concrete benefits or in order to keep up with perceived industry trends.