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Major changes in attitude are permitting co-operation of press, bar and bench in voluntary committees working to influence news reporting that might prejudice criminal cases. Efforts are led by the ASNE and the ABA.

In its first five years the Council has won acceptance as an arbiter between press and public. Through it the British press has another chance to show the world that freedom can operate both responsibly and intelligently. These are the views of a Minnesota professor who here digests decisions to date.

The author discusses the application of the methodology of economics in studies of the mass media, and the problems arising out of the conflict between outside and inside points of view. Recent economic studies of the media are listed and topics for future research are suggested.

The traditional system of press ownership and operation in the United Kingdom has been altered by 16 years of operation under controls which restrict competition. Dr. Gerald examines the position of the British press as, flushed with prosperity, it enters a period of lifting of official regulation

The first issues of the I. P. I. Report, published by the International Press Institute, appeared during this quarter. They furnish an unequalled report on communications around the world. L'Echo de la Presse became a weekly on April 11, realizing a seven-year dream of Editor Jacquemart. News developments included progress on reform of the British law of libel, evidence of the growth of advertising in Great Britain during the Socialist emphasis on the welfare state, and consideration of new basic press laws in West Germany, Pakistan and France. The chief editor of a leading Catholic daily in The Netherlands was dismissed. La Prensa of Buenos Aires reappeared as the painted darling of the Peron dictatorship and La Razon of La Paz appeared dead of intimidation by Estenssoro's revolutionary gangs. A leading Communist editor went to jail in France as part of the government's gesture of warning against armed agitation. A new international federation of journalists, the West's answer to the Communist IOJ, elected a famed British labor leader as president.

Abbreviations used: D, Dagspressen (Oslo); E, L'Echo de la Presse et de la Publicité (Paris); IJJ, Institute of Journalists Journal (London); J, Journalist of the National Union of Journalists (London); JD, Journalisten (Copenhagen); JN, Journalisten (Oslo); ANN, Newspaper News (Sydney); NW, Newspaper World (London); WPN, World's Press News (London).