Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

An Editorial Comment

Beginning with this issue, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly actively encourages authors to submit their work for review in electronic form, whether on a disk or CD-ROM, or as an e-mail attachment. Electronic files will be stripped of all identifying information before being sent to reviewers, of course, including identifiers that are hidden in file information. While electronic submissions will be shipped among associate editors and reviewers, hard copy logs and backups will be...

Media Salience and Frame Changing Across Events: Coverage of Nine School Shootings, 1997-2001

This study applies the two-dimensional analytical framework suggested by Chyi and McCombs to assess its utility in studying frame-changing across similar events and between more and less salient events. A content analysis examines New York Times reportage of nine rampage school shootings occurring between 1997 and 2001, identifying the frame-changing dynamic occurring across events and the core frames present in the coverage. Ultimately, the methodological complexities of making cross-case co...

The Framesetting Effects of News: An Experimental Test of Advocacy Versus Objectivist Frames

This study merges framing and agenda-setting research by focusing on the relative power of certain news frames to limit audience cognition and influence attitudes. It proposes a cognitive-based model for understanding when news stories are likely to have the dual effect of transferring both object and frame salience to audiences, an effect here called "framesetting, " that is more likely to occur when the press employs advocacy frames using consensus cues as opposed to objectivist frames base...

Third-Person Effects On Political Participation

The third-person perception is the tendency for people to believe others are more affected by media messages than they are themselves. Analysis of a probability sample telephone survey revealed a significant relationship between having voted in the 2004 presidential election and third-person perception level. This empirical evidence supports a link between past voting behavior and the third-person perception, which expands third-person perception and behavioral domains beyond censorship issue...

Media Use and the Perceived Justice of Local Science Authorities

This study uses a mail survey (N = 1,305,) conducted in two Upstate New York counties to explore relationships between media use and individual fairness judgments regarding local scientists. It extends previous work in organizational justice to a community setting, with local scientists evaluated according to four social-psychological dimensions of justice-distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational. Results show science news attention positively related to perceived distributi...

The Influence of Knowledge and Deference Toward Scientific Authority: A Media Effects Model for Public Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology

Previous research suggests both cognitive and affective variables can impact how the public thinks about new scientific developments such as nanotechnology. Most studies have not explored the origins of these variables or their simultaneous, interactive influences on public opinion. Using national telephone survey data (N=706), we examine the pathways between different types of media use and attitudes toward nanotechnology, particularly potential mediating roles of nanotechnology knowledge an...

The Effects of Visuals On Ethical Reasoning: What's a Photograph Worth to Journalists Making Moral Decisions?

Two experiments explored the effects of photographs on ethical decision making in the journalism domain. Both found that photographs improved participants' ethical reasoning and identified mental elaboration as significant in that process: thinking about the people affected by an ethical situation helped improve ethical reasoning. Involvement also was important; when participants were not very involved with the dilemmas, having photographs significantly improved their ethical reasoning. Theor...

Distinctions That Matter: Ethical Differences at Large and Small Newspapers

Qualitative interviews with top-level editors at twenty-eight newspapers across the United States (fourteen at "large" newspapers and fourteen at "small" newspapers) revealed how community and newsroom size impact the ways editors conceptualize and deal with certain ethical dilemmas. The findings provide some support for the theory of "connectivity" in journalism: that journalists in small markets are likely to be more in touch with, and more concerned with, community values than journalists ...

The Narrative of Core Traditional Values in Reiman Magazines

Reiman Publications represent a singular model-80% of content is submitted by readers and the magazines are ad-free. This study places the magazines within the broader American cultural landscape, showing how the role of suburban middle-class white women is tied to traditional values, religion, and a valorization of country taste as "authentic" expression. Through depth interviews, close textual reading, and narrative and rhetorical analysis, the study demonstrates how an imagined community i...

Audience Taste Divergence Over Time: An Analysis of U.S. Movies' Box Office in Hong Kong, 1989-2004

Foreign media products often go through processes of local reception when they travel to another culture. This article provides a quantitative and longitudinal analysis of local reception by focusing on the notion of cross-culture predictability, or the degree to which the performance of a set of media products in a foreign market can be predicted by their performance in the domestic market. Analysis of box office performance of U.S. movies in Hong Kong from 1989 to 2004 finds that the tastes...

Network News Coverage of High-Profile Crimes During 2004: A Study of Source Use and Reporter Context

A study of network news in 2004 found reporting about high-profile crimes (Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, and Martha Stewart) differed from reporting in other significant stories. Morning network news carried the bulk (84%) of high-profile crime stories that were broadcast on network news. The morning high-profile crime stories had more transparent sources compared to other significant stories and were more likely to have only one viewpoint and contain anonymous sources. These ...

Partisan Politics, Market Research, and Media Buying in Canada, 1920

During the 1910s, the Canadian newspaper industry consolidated as dailies closed, chains formed, and rivals cooperated through press associations and news services. The standard explanation for these changes links them to trends in the national economy. Developments in the advertising trade may offer a better explanation. Traditionally, advertisers used papers that shared their political leanings. As advertising agencies adopted new media buying practices, however, they claimed to use only pa...

Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis

A psychic did sue for injury suffered in connection with a CAT scan (for pain caused by a severe allergic reaction to the dye injected before the scan, and even on that claim she lost); a woman did receive a jury award for burns suffered from spilled McDonald's coffee (but she suffered third-degree burns-McDonald's served its coffee extraordinarily hot and had done nothing despite 700 previous bum incidents, and the award was ultimately reduced).

European Culture and the Media: Changing Media, Changing Europe Vol. 1

Readers-especially those who are unfamiliar with the subject-would be best served by first turning to the final chapter, by Karol Jakubowicz, who provides an overview of the European policy environment, including the much-maligned "Television Without Frontiers" directive that first proposed a commercially oriented "common market" for broadcasting in the (then) European Community. In a similar vein, Kim Christian Schrøder's comparative study of Danish and British national identities throws li...

Global Activism, Global Media

Such chapters are highlights of the book because they provide insider perspectives to complement the growing body of academic literature on twenty-first century social movements and media.

Headline Writing

Saxena, vice president for content and services for the Express Network Private Limited in Chennai (formerly known as Madras), India, wrote Headline Writing for Indian journalists writing for Indian newspapers.

Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia

The book explores the key moments, from the mid 1940s until his death in 1967, when Luce tried to shape policy or opinion through the content of his publications and direct contact with government decision makers.

James Agee: Selected Journalism

Even though the other seventeen articles in this collection of articles are the same ones Ashdown selected for his first edition in 1985 and are published in the same order, Agee's mastery of the English language is reason enough to republish this collection of spell-binding journalistic essays, which paint vivid pictures of life during the Depression and World War IL Agee is writing about events that happened in the first half of the twentieth century, but his work will never go out of style...

Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty

Knudson focuses even further his examination of these eight partisan newspapers with national influence by limiting his analysis to the press treatment of six major issues of broad interest during Jefferson's presidency: the election of 18001801, Thomas Paine's return to the United States from France, the Louisiana Purchase, the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, the Republican attack on the Federalist judiciary, and the embargo and commercial warfare that occurred between 1807-1...

The Markets and the Media: Business News and Stock Market Movements

Business News and Stock Market Movements should be required reading for anyone who uses business publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Money, or BusinessWeek to find investment ideas because it dispels the belief that business media can help anyone make money-in the short term or the long term-on Wall Street. Research shows that the news hole given to business coverage increased from 7% of the average newspaper to 15% in the 1990s.

Media in an American Crisis: Studies of September 11, 2001

Predictable topics are represented: rumor transmission, news diffusion channels and usage, New York Times content over time, media dependencies upon official government and public service sources and frames, print versus broadcast performances, traditional and new media news coverage, gate keeping, and audience emotional responses.

The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance

The availability of online media databases containing full texts of a great many forms of media materials-newspapers; magazines; television; motion pictures; and Web-based materials such as blogs, Web sites, and wikis-has never been greater. The authors are Stephen J. Farnsworth, an associate professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington, and S. Robert Lichter, professor of communication at George Mason University and director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

No Ordinary Joe: A Life of Joseph Pulitzer Iii

No Ordinary Joe is a tremendous effort on the part of Pfaff; as the author of a biography of Joseph Pulitzer Ill's father, Joseph Pulitzer II and the Post-Dispatch: A Newspaperman's Life, he had already cultivated many family sources before this book was written. For instance, when writing about the "apprenticeship" of Joseph Pulitzer III in the newsroom (when his father ran the paper), Pfaff notes how one of his jobs was to offer an assessment of the newspaper's key news and business manage...

Outrage, Passion &Amp; Uncommon Sense: How Editorial Writers Have Taken On the Great American Issues of the Past 150 Years

There are stirring historical pictures as well, such as photos of such terrific editorial writers as William Allen White, Horace Greeley, Vermont Royster, Hazel Brannon Smith (first woman to win a Pulitzer for editorial writing), and even columnist H. L. Mencken. [...] the photos don't stop at journalists: there are also pictures of the subject of many well-known editorials, such as the infamous abolitionist John Brown, innocent Japanese-Americans being hauled off to internment camps in Cali...

The Press

The volume was edited by Geneva Overholser, a former newspaper editor now at the Missouri School of Journalism, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the prolific political analyst at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. The Press, underwritten by the Annenberg Foundation Trust, is the second of a five-volume series (the other four examine public schools and the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government).

The Print and Online Newspapers in Europe: A Comparative Content Analysis in 18 Countries in Western and Eastern Europe

The focus on European print and online newspapers adds to that strength because those sites have been the subject of limited scholarly work, usually only mentioned either under the huge topic of digital media or as examples of different types of content.

The Republic of Mass Culture, Journalism, Filmmaking and Broadcasting in America Since 1941

The book might have been strengthened if, for example, Baughman had devoted more space to a discussion of the missteps made by the motion picture studios and major newspapers when faced with emerging competitive threats.

The Rise of Radio, From Marconi Through the Golden Age

In contrast, this book looks at a fuller history but without the depth of the Barnouw works (cited by the author as part of his extensive bibliography). Balk's book traces radio from Heinrich Hertz through KDKA, the golden age of radio, Edward R. Murrow, classic radio dramas and comedies, and the morphing of radio into a jukebox as television starts to dominate the media landscape. While many of the key players are familiar, the author attempts to go beyond the conventional wisdom and highl...