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In 2016, the District of Columbia City Council passed the Death With Dignity Act. Afterward, Congress attempted to block its implementation by first invoking Congress's power to overturn the law and then, when unsuccessful in that effort, withhold money from the District. Previous studies examining local news media coverage of aid-in-dying legislation have identified several recurrent frames. D.C. news publications invoked those frames as well as others more specific to the District. Understanding how aid in dying and related legislation is portrayed in newspaper coverage is important as more jurisdictions consider legalization of the practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how the American news media have framed the question of who is responsible for rising healthcare costs in the United States. Commercial pressures seem to influence news media to focus less on such social-level causes as pharmaceutical companies, while patients--an individual-level cause--have been mentioned most frequently as being responsible for rising healthcare costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on a study which examines how "The New York Times" and "USA Today" framed their coverage of the recession in the U.S. from 2008-2009. It provides details about the technical information frame of "The New York Times" and the life contextualizer frame of the "USA Today." The study reveals the distinctive differences between the two newspapers.

The article examines newspaper coverage about the war in Afghanistan. It highlights several articles that had a negative tone and described the U.S. military in a negative way. These articles, which discussed the war in Afghanistan, came from "The New York Times, "Washington Post," and the Los Angeles Times."

The article focuses on a study which aims to examine the difference between Chinese and the U.S. newspapers in framing the Google and China issue. It reveals that Google Inc. shutdown its Chinese website due to China's Internet censorship policy. The company announces that the website was no longer willing to submit to censorship.

The article offers information related to the increasing importance of news media and community newspapers in the U.S. It highlights a study which aims to examine the effects of the uses and dependency model on the application of both print and online community newspaper at the individual level. Information about the self-determination theory (SDT) of human motivation as well as the uses and dependency model of mass communication is presented.

This study of convergence journalism at TV news operations and newspapers in the top 200 markets found that cross-platform partnerships found in 2003 and 2005 had largely faded by 2011 to be replaced by a new model of web-centric convergence journalism or 'Webvergence.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Credibility scores by readers of print versus online newspapers found that readers'scores of hardcopy were significantly higher than scores of online news in 2001. By 2010, however, none of the differences between online and hardcopy treatments was statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the drop in newspaper readership and traditional news viewing, especially among young adults. Statistics about news consumption are provided and the attitudes of journalists about the younger audience. The article presents the research questions asked of journalists to determine which audience journalists considered the most important to reach. Some of the questions asked included what the journalists' attitudes were towards young adults and the news content and how these attitudes varied by the age of the journalists.

A survey of online news people rated the quality of online news. Top rankings went to content criteria, such as credibility and utility, suggesting that many traditional journalism values remain paramount. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the concept of framing on news media coverages in the U.S. There were two types of frames described such as individual and media frames which concentrated on different issues and examined generic news frames in media content. These generic frames were somehow differentiated as episodic and thematic which was cited on the Iraqi war coverage reflecting the shift of military conflict and war violence to the country's rebuilding approaching the end of the war. In view of this, it was concluded that framing commended detailed and thorough investigations as it is a motivated process.

The article reports on the study that investigates the extent to which newspapers are engaging in parachute journalism today, describes its current practice and proposes topologies that capture the complexity of the phenomenon. The study follows the research question which asks about the ways that daily newspapers send reporters abroad for ad hoc assignments. It used the quantitative approach to enhance understanding of the practice compared to a qualitative approach. The study found out that many newspapers at least occasionally practiced ad hoc reporting trips abroad and the rest said that no staff reporter had ever done a story abroad and these findings challenge the conventional view of parachute journalism.

The article reports on the study that evaluates news media performance in providing environmental news coverage. It asks on certain questions to environmentally stressed region on how active the news media are covering environmental risks and how often they use the news media for such information. Respondents were initially asked an open-ended question about any serious environmental problems where they live that came to mind and were later given a set of specific problems to rate in terms of seriousness. Subjects in this survey who gave news media positive evaluations tended to judge their risk of environmentally related health problems as lower than did those with a very negative view of media performance

Through a series of hypothetical examples, this article examines the criteria used by editors and news directors to make the decision to identify a juvenile suspect. This study also surveys news managers' perceptions of the juvenile crime problem in Ohio and their perceptions of the amount of news coverage of juvenile crime stories. Fifty percent of managers surveyed said they think the rate of violent crimes committed by juveniles had increased during the two years before the survey. Editors and news director argue with the decision. Eighty-three percent agreed that the decision to identify a juvenile is more difficult than the decision to identify an adult accused of a similar crime. Ohio journalists look at specific factors before identifying a juvenile suspect. Those factors are: the severity of the crime; the age of the suspect; the closeness of the crime to the city where the newspaper or television station is located; the level of prior public knowledge of the juvenile's identity; the age of the victim; and the way the competition might cover the story. The results of the study suggest that journalism's paternalism toward juvenile lawbreakers may have been something less than absolute.

A comparison of news stories about Michigan gubernatorial races in 1998 and 2002 shows the challenger received more attention than the incumbent in 1998, while neither dominated the news in 2002. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a study which compared the international content of The Associated Press with that of U.S. newspapers. Research questions and hypotheses; Findings; Discussion and conclusions.

This article discusses the results of a survey conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University, which determined the extent Internet users actually use the Internet to acquire news. Between 1995 and 1999, there had been an increase from 5.3 to 34.5 percent in those using the Internet four days a week or more. In the survey, respondents were asked about the use of television news, newspapers, the Internet and the Internet for news. One tabular presentation showed that television news and newspapers are still ahead of the Internet in daily use. Yet, the use of the Internet for news lags behind. While 68.6 percent of the respondents had used the Internet at least one day in the past week, only 41.1 percent had used it to acquire news. The pattern for newspapers and television news use is the one that has been found for years--the older people are the more likely they are to use the media. For the Internet, however, use by those 55 or older is much less than for the other two age groups, and only one person in eight in that age group is using the Internet for news. This in part probably reflects the increased use of computers in the workplace.

Presents an overview of the articles featured in the September 2003 issue of the "Newspaper Research Journal." Inability of reporters to do simple math calculations; Views of editors in reporting private affairs of public officials and candidates; Relationship between quality news content and newspaper profits.