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Examines the roles of librarians and reporters and the use of information technologies by newspapers. Finds that information retrieval technologies and databases are causing the work of newspaper reporters and librarians to merge and blend. Finds that 90 percent of the newspapers studied subscribed to a least one database, and 60 percent searched public records electronically. (PRA)

Concludes that the coverage of health issues in the British press is modest and lacking in information, making health less of a concern than illness among the public. (FL)

Concludes that newsmagazines leave a lot of Supreme Court decisions unreported, concentrating on "major" decisions, particularly those dealing with the First Amendment. (FL)

Notes that while the Supreme Court decision in "Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia" enunciated the right to report, the response of lower courts on this issue has been mixed, and the impact of the decision is less than many suppose. (FL)

Concludes that the juvenile justice system is becoming more open but that most states still limit both press and public access. (FL)

Reports that Nigeria has two sets of broadcasting systems, one run by the federal government and the other by the states. Discusses various problems with the systems. (FL)

Explores Guyana's efforts to articulate and implement a national information order that would redress past information imbalances. (FL)

Concludes that eliteness of a nation as a news source is the most important criterion for news selection in the Canadian press. (FL)

Presents summaries of research dealing with (1) news coverage of Africa, (2) diffusion of information about cyanide-laced Tylenol, (3) gender representation in elite newspapers, (4) agreement between reporters and editors in Mississippi, (5) monopoly metropolitan dailies and intercity competition, and (6) the effect of endorsements on the Presidential vote. (FL)

Reveals that the degree of centralization and power varies in different types of organizations as defined by the Hage-Hull typology. (FL)

Analyzes a number of articles and advertisements in 16 magazines and concludes that the ads neither set nor followed the country-western trend of the late l970s and early l980s. (FL)

Finds that current open meeting laws allow greater access to government, provide more comprehensive coverage, and have stronger enforcement measures than laws in l974. (FL)

Reports that inadequate air time and omission of detail are the most common objections by sources to science coverage on network news programs. (FL)

Concludes that most Japanese Diet members meet reporters to transmit and to receive information but also to maintain good relations with the press. (FL)

Concludes that press coverage of the FDA's food irradiation proposal failed to give the public the information necessary for an informed decision on the process. (FL)

Concludes that political ideology in Hong Kong constructs "journalistic paradigms" for the partisan press, defines their concerns, and determines the government information they print. (FL)

Concludes that President Franklin Roosevelt managed the news with a great deal of press support and thereby generated favorable public opinion. (FL)

Concludes that members of the Public Relations Society of America want to participate in company decisions and have clear concern for the public interest. (FL)

Discusses the Inter Press Service Third World News Agency, which specializes in news of developing nations and promotes communication links among them. Concludes that the service is providing a new kind of news distribution system in response to Third World criticisms of the "old order" of Western domination of news. (FL)

Catalogs various internal constraints under which many public relations practitioners work, including constraints on (1) access to management; (2) information collection; (3) dissemination of timely, accurate information; and (4) the public relations mission. Reports that most practitioners see organizational constraints as more of a problem for other public relations persons than for themselves. (MM)

Reports on a study designed to discover the nature of the flow of messages about recommended agricultural practices first introduced through the mass media in a developing country, and to explore the role opinion leaders plan in the process. (GW)

A study of the Charleston, South Carolina press at four intervals in the early nineteenth century, reveals a strong dependence of state newspapers on the Washington press for political information and commentary on national political issues. (GW)

Examines factors related to implementing congressional television, relevant studies and reports, events of 1975-1977 related to legislative implementation of congressional television, the 1977 90-day television test and evaluations of it, and recent events that may lead toward congressional television. (GW)

Discusses exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act that prevent disclosure of some types of corporate information supplied to the federal government. Examines case law that has developed around these exemptions and gages the degree to which they block access to corporate information held by the government. (GW)