Journalists' perceptions of how newspaper and broadcast news competition affects newspaper content

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 354-363

  Coulson, David C ^a   Lacy, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0041049306     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769909607300207     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. 1994 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook.
2. Stephen Lacy and Jan P. Vermeer, "Commentary: Theoretical and Practical Considerations in Operationalizing Newspaper and Television News Competition," Journal of Media Economics 8, no. 1 (1995): 49-61.
3. Stephen Lacy and Todd F. Simon, The Economics and Regulation of United States Newspapers (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1993), 91-129.
4. Edward H. Chamberlin, The Theory of Monopolistic Competition, 8th ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962).
5. Ralph O. Nafziger and Thomas F. Barnhart, "Red Wing and Its Daily Newspapers," in The Community Basis for Postwar Planning (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, May 1946).
6. For a discussion of the competition literature through 1991, see Stephen Lacy, "The Financial Commitment Approach to News Media Competition," Journal of Media Economics 5, no. 2 (1992): 5-22; and for a more recent discussion, see Lacy and Vermeer, "Commentary."
7. For a discussion of the competition literature through 1991, see Stephen Lacy, "The Financial Commitment Approach to News Media Competition," Journal of Media Economics 5, no. 2 (1992): 5-22; and for a more recent discussion, see Lacy and Vermeer, "Commentary."
8. Barry R. Litman and Janet Bridges, "An Economic Analysis of Daily Newspaper Performance," Newspaper Research Journal 7 (spring 1986): 9-26.
9. Lacy, "Financial Commitment."
10. Wayne Wanta and Thomas J. Johnson, "Content Changes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch During Different Market Conditions," Journal of Media Economics 7, no. 1 (1994): 13-28.
11. Thomas J. Johnson and Wayne Wanta, "Newspaper Competition and Message Diversity in an Urban Market," Mass Comm Review 20, nos. 3&4 (1993), 136-47.
12. Lacy, "Financial Commitment."
13. Gerald H. Borstel, "Ownership, Competition and Comment in 20 Small Dailies," Journalism Quarterly 33 (spring 1956): 220-22; Robert E. Entman, "Newspaper Competition and First Amendment Ideas: Does Monopoly Matter," Journal of Communication 35 (summer 1985): 147-65; and Stephen Lacy, "The Effects of Intracity Competition on Daily Newspaper Content," Journalism Quarterly 64 (summer-autumn 1987): 281-90.
14. Gerald H. Borstel, "Ownership, Competition and Comment in 20 Small Dailies," Journalism Quarterly 33 (spring 1956): 220-22; Robert E. Entman, "Newspaper Competition and First Amendment Ideas: Does Monopoly Matter," Journal of Communication 35 (summer 1985): 147-65; and Stephen Lacy, "The Effects of Intracity Competition on Daily Newspaper Content," Journalism Quarterly 64 (summer-autumn 1987): 281-90.
15. Gerald H. Borstel, "Ownership, Competition and Comment in 20 Small Dailies," Journalism Quarterly 33 (spring 1956): 220-22; Robert E. Entman, "Newspaper Competition and First Amendment Ideas: Does Monopoly Matter," Journal of Communication 35 (summer 1985): 147-65; and Stephen Lacy, "The Effects of Intracity Competition on Daily Newspaper Content," Journalism Quarterly 64 (summer-autumn 1987): 281-90.
16. Dominic L. Lasorsa, "Effects of Newspaper Competition on Public Opinion Diversity," Journalism Quarterly 68 (spring & summer 1991): 38-47.
17. Jan P. Vermeer, "Multiple Newspaper and Electoral Competition: A County-Level Analysis," Journalism Quarterly 72 (spring 1995): 98-105.
18. See for example, George L. Bird, "Newspaper Monopoly and Political Independence," Journalism Quarterly 17 (September 1940): 207-14.
19. Galen Rarick and Barrie Hartman, "The Effects of Competition on One Daily Newspaper's Content," Journalism Quarterly 43 (autumn 1966): 459-63.
20. Guido H. Stempel III, Effects of a Cross-Media Monopoly, Journalism Monographs, no. 29 (Columbia, SC: AEJMC, 1973).
21. William T. Gromley Jr., The Effects of Newspaper-Television Cross-Ownership on News Homogeneity (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1976).
22. Leo Bogart, "How the Challenge of Television News Affects the Prosperity of Daily Newspapers," Journalism Quarterly 52 (autumn 1975): 401-10.
23. Stephen Lacy, "The Effect of Intermedia Competition on Daily Newspaper Content," Journalism Quarterly 65 (spring 1988): 95-99.
24. James M. Bernstein, Stephen Lacy, Catherine Cassara, and Tuen-Yu Lau, "Geographic Coverage by Local Television News," Journalism Quarterly 67 (winter 1990): 663-71.
25. Karen L. Slattery and Ernest A. Hakanen, "Sensationalism Versus Public Affairs Content of Local TV News: Pennsylvania Revisited," Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 38 (spring 1994): 205-16.
26. Guido H. Stempel III, "Where People Really Get Most of Their News," Newspaper Research Journal 12 (fall 1991): 2-9.
27. George A. Gladney, "Does TV Competition Lead to USA Today-Style Innovation?" Newspaper Research Journal 15 (spring 1994): 25-36.
28. The range between the percentage that agreed and the percentage that disagreed was 51% for reporters and higher quality local news, 40% for editors and higher quality local news, 90% for reporters and greater diversity of news, 75% for editors and greater diversity of news, 88% for reporters and greater diversity of editorial opinion, 77% for editors and greater diversity of editorial opinion, 77% for reporters and more likely to become complacent, 59% for editors and more likely to become complacent, 41% for reporters and more sensationalism, and 49% for editors and more sensationalism.
29. Lacy, "Financial Commitment."
30. Stephen Lacy and Lucinda Davenport, "Daily Newspaper Market Structure, Concentration and Competition," Journal of Media Economics 7, no. 3 (1994): 33-46.
31. Charles T. Duncan, "How the Weekly Press Covers News in Local Government," Journalism Quarterly 29 (summer 1952): 283-93.
32. Stephen Lacy and Shikha Dalmia, "Daily and Weekly Penetration in Non-metropolitan Areas of Michigan," Newspaper Research Journal 14 (summer & fall 1993): 20-33.
33. John H. McManus, Market-Driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware? (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).
34. Joe Holley, "Bright Spot in the Lone Star State," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 1994, 21-24.