Suchergebnisse

This report on an experiment with the use of graphic devices in communicating information points to the superiority of the bar graph in enhancing understanding of a news story based primarily upon statistics.

In this study the author seeks to establish a method for defining and identifying the radical right press, as distinguished from the ultra-conservative press. He then reports on an intensive study of the themes of two bellwether radical right publications, Common Sense and The Cross and the Flag.

A series of problems involved in staged news photographs are used to study responses of an ethical nature by various groups of newsmen and a selected group from the public, in an effort to present a case model for other studies of ethics. The author is chairman of the Department of Journalism at UCLA.

How can specific courses taken by journalism students as liberal arts background be categorized when journalism educators and their deans in liberal arts colleges disagree in assigning subjects to such broad areas as the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and fine arts?

Accredited journalism schools, as a group, are exceeding the 25% professional instruction maximum generally considered desirable, and show a mixed response toward emphasis upon social science in liberal arts course electives by students. The author poses questions involving educational philosophy.

This department is devoted to shorter articles and notes on research in the communications field, either completed or in progress. Readers are invited to submit reports on investigative studies which might prove useful to other students because of content, method, or implications for further research.