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Analyzes the visual form of three newspapers' front pages from 1885 to 1985. Finds that front pages became a more uniform, more efficient map of the news. Concludes that ideas behind this "design revolution" (with their sources in design theory and news ideology rather than in economics or technology) have been influencing front pages for over 50 years. (SR)

Reviews research dealing with cable television and local news, photographs of the invasion of Poland in American newspapers, unauthorized use of a newspaper's name, newspaper coverage of President Reagan's China policy, perceptions of viewer interest by local television journalists, humorous advertising in the "Saturday Evening Post" from 1920 to 1939, and layout design of magazine ads. (FL)

Finds that overall, American newspaper front pages are more graphically pleasing today than ever before and that the revolution in design that began 20 years ago is continuing. (FL)

Examines the Western territories that had newspapers in 1880 with those that did not to determine the factors that led potential publishers to accept or to reject a location. (FL)

Reveals that most newspapers are devoting as much or more space to editorials today as in 1957 and that more are endorsing political candidates. (FL)

Explores several aspects of photojournalism at daily newspapers in the Rocky Mountain states and provides photojournalism educators with insights into what characteristics photo editors look for in photographers. (FL)

Concludes that people selectively attend to campaign information based on its editorial format rather than its orignating format and that a surveillance/vote guidance motivation to attend to a campaign is more strongly related to degree of selectivity than is a diversion motivation. (FL)

Discusses the use of quantitative graphs in newspapers and identifies 10 common problems to avoid in the use of informational graphics, including (1) the tilted graph; (2) the stacked graph; (3) the convention-violating graph; (4) the unnecessarily three-dimensional graph; and (5) the overly complex graph. (MM)

Reports on an analysis of front page photographs in six major newspapers in 1936, 1956, and 1976; the study examined photographs with respect to size, subject, source, location on the page, racial and sex composition, and whether accompanied by an article. (GW)

Examines the front pages of a national sample of dailies in the United States, describing their use of news attributes and determining if any news-use patterns are evident. Finds three news-use patterns: hard news, interpreter news, and prominence news. Identifies timeliness as the most important attribute for front-page news. (RS)

Subjects who were shown slides of four newspaper front pages--traditional, contemporary, well-designed traditional, and well-designed contemporary--preferred contemporary to traditional designs and well-designed pages to those of average design. (Reproductions of the four front pages are included.) (GT)

Reports the results of an analysis of appearance characteristics of a sample of joint ownership newspapers, which yielded information about factors related to the adoption of modern newspaper design. (GT)

Reviews advertising typography in general interest, special interest, and trade magazines and concludes that special interest magazine ads are making the most effort to be fashionable, but also have the greatest chance of having functional problems. (FL)

Concludes that magazine readers prefer less realistic reproduction of simple, not complex, photographs. (FL)