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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.

While the transition of traditional newspapers and magazines to the online space is gathering pace, and the literature on multimedia journalism is proliferating, little attention has been paid to date to the implications of convergence for the press in regulatory terms. One such regulatory dilemma arises from the proliferation of video content on newspaper websites. It is this question and others at the conjuncture of press freedom and the dynamics unleashed by convergence that the papers in this special section seek to shed light upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the importance for journalists to reassert verbal clarity and improve their stories in response to the changing culture of journalism. He compares the difference of the media and national press in 1950s and 1960s and the current condition in which their common culture is delivered through moving images and sounds. The author encourages journalists to continue championing good writing in response to the speed of technological changes.

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.

The author reflects on the difference between the American and British journalism. He describes the two countries' contrasting approaches on the way their newspapers handle and maintain strict separation between editorial comment and news coverage particularly in television. However, the author commends the impudence and impertinence characteristics of the British journalism, which does not exist in the American press.

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]

The supposed 'emotionalization' of the public sphere has recently been the target of much hostile commentary, both lay and academic. In the news media, there certainly seems to be a growing interest in emotion, as more and more space is devoted to the representations of mourning in the coverage of major disasters or extraordinary deaths. In this study I look at the news coverage of the display of public grief in the Finnish newspapers following the murders of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden in 1986, and Anna Lindh, the Foreign Minister of Sweden in 2003. The similarities between the Palme and Lindh cases give an opportunity to examine how the representation of mourning has changed over time. The second aim of this article is to explore how gender is constructed in the portrayals of grief: are we witnessing a change regarding the persistent stereotypes about the emotional woman and the unemotional man in the representations of grief or just a new deal in gendered emotions? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

The author reflects on the deterioration of ethics in the mass media in Great Britain. He outlines the factors that contributed to the increasing complexity of the media, making it harder to explain and effectively more secretive. The author recognizes the effort of several politicians in creating a more open system in the sector, however, their progress do not connect with policies that could supposedly inspire a fresh start in the industry.

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]