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Ethical decisions that journalists make vary greatly in their situational context, often shaped by a tension between professional values and organizational imperatives. This survey of newspaper reporters questions the notion of a common ethics decision-making framework that applies uniformly from situation to situation. Through three ethical situations—each varying in the nature of interaction with news sources—the study considers how individual, peer-group, organizational, professional, and societal levels of analysis relate to journalists' ethics decision making. Results found that ethical decisions vary by context and that an important difference among journalists is their degree of professional confidence.

An examination of agenda-setting with respect to crime policy in 7 US cities 1950-1980: Atlanta (Ga); Boston (Mass); Houston (Tex); Minneapolis (Minn); Philadelphia (Pa); Phoenix (Ariz); & San Jose (Calif). Data from a multivariate time-series analysis of newspaper coverage & policy making related to crime indicate only limited support for resource agenda-setting. In Atlanta & San Jose, the amount of front-page coverage of crime was a significant predictor of the number of police officers per capita in subsequent years, while in the other five cities, no relationship between press coverage of crime & resource allocation was identified. 1 Table, 24 References. W. Howard

Several studies have documented that there is often little connection between reality and press attention—for example, a "crime wave" is as likely to reflect press attention as actual crime. Using information from a large government-gathered database, and cross-lagged partial correlations, this study finds some evidence that letters to the newspaper do influence some editors to write about certain issues and also some newspapers to emphasize particular topics in the news. This was true of six of the 10 papers for which data could be used. But there was little evidence that editorials influenced news topics, or vice versa.

This content analysis of three newspapers looks at the extent to which two context elements, routine and conflict, affect the mix of sources. The hypothesized effect (that nonroutine and conflict-based news would contain a greater diversity of sources) was found only for proximate news stories. Although journalists can develop a diverse pool of sources in their own communities, only the most visible sources are easily reachable in other locations.

A study of subsidized information received by an Indianapolis television station over a four-week period in 1987 found less than one-fourth of news releases and other subsidies survived the first cut by producers and assignment editors. Information from non-profit organizations and interest groups was kept most frequently, while that from government and business was kept least frequently. It is suggested that two levels of agenda building operate simultaneously in local TV news—the relationship between journalists and local sources, and the less purposive level where non-local sources haphazardly attempt to get on the local agenda.

In mid-December 2010, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart asked Congress to address the health care needs of 9/11 rescue workers—which it did. Shortly after, the New York Times published an analysis piece comparing Stewart to the legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. This article explores how collective memory of Murrow was used by both mainstream media and the blogosphere to negotiate membership boundaries of journalism itself, with analysis conducted through textual analysis of online mainstream news texts and blog postings.