Newspaper Research Journal

We began copyrighting the content of Newspaper Research Journal with this issue, which also marks the beginning of our second year as editors. While we want to continue to make NRJ widely available to educators, professionals, students and libraries,...

Accuracy is the foundation of media credibility. If journalists cannot get their facts straight, how can readers trust the media to convey and interpret the news reliably? According to a national survey commissioned by the American Society of Newspaper...

Audience measurement is a cornerstone of the American mass media system, newspaper researcher Leo Bogart stated. (1) Measurement is central because the newspaper reading audience is shrinking. In 1970, the percentage of weekday readers in the adult...

Newspapers have recently adopted Web URLs (Universal Resource Locators) into their content. Herein we briefly report an exploratory investigation of this phenomenon. There are a variety of published studies on the role of the Web within news...

Nothing less than the highest ideals, the most scrupulous anxiety to do right, the most accurate knowledge of the problems it has to meet, and a sincere sense of moral responsibility will save journalism from a subservience to business...

Few U.S. newspapers are absent on the Internet today. Most of them publish an Internet version, (1) which provides more affluent content than the original printed edition. (2) While newspapers feel more comfortable distributing information over...