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Reports on a study indicating that veiled attribution occurs in approximately three-fourths of news stories in both "Time" and Newsweek," and that the attribution phrases used emphasize partisan ties, suggest expertise, and tend to personalize, to add apparent scope to a story, and to be especially vague in international stories. (GW)

Presents the findings of a survey of members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors revealing that they were ambivalent about the use of veiled attribution. Notes that editors of larger rather than smaller papers were more likely to see the need for it. (FL)

Focuses on the study of health care coverage in largest dailies in Ohio. Role of physicians in news coverage; Category of news sources; Correlation of control of information with power in social systems.

Explores the assumption of editors about the attribution of news in journalism. Perspectives of editors on leaks; Need for some unnamed quotes in 1974; Effect of factors on approval of and felt need for unnamed attribution.

Describes the veiled attribution practice in "Time" and "Newsweek" newsmagazines. Goals for using veiled attribution phrases; Prevalence of practicing veiled attribution in newsmagazines; Efforts of Newsweek to appear careful and object in its reporting; Difference of newsmagazines from newspapers; Tendency of newsmagazines to emphasize partisan ties and personalize their attribution phrases; Significance of Newsweek's tendency to quote people whom it defined as expert.

Examines the factors affecting the way persons view unnamed news sources. Evidence of fairly high public respect for media coverage of Watergate; Debate of press and journalists on the wisdom of quoting high-ranking officials; Percentage of typical paper's supposed readers actually read an average item indicated in the Continuing Study of Newspaper Readership.

Examines the impact of the use of quotation marks and bylines in the text on the credibility of the reporter in the U.S. Use of methodology in conducting the personal interviews regarding the observation of various bylines in the news; Citation of findings based from the frequency with which people at various levels of public affairs knowledge notice bylines; Observation on the significance of the relationship between education and noting of bylines.