Survey Probes Status of Op-Ed Journalism and Practices of Op-Ed Editors

Newspaper Research Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 18-30

  Ciofalo, Andrew ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 27744482916     PISSN: 07395329     EISSN: 23764791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073953299801900202     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Andrew Ciofalo and Kim Traverso, Does the op-ed page have a chance to become a public forum? Newspaper Research Journal, Fall 1994, pp. 51-63.
2. Tom Peeling, President’s Letter: It’s Been Great Fun Watching the Group Grow. OPED, Newsletter of the Association of Opinion Page Editors, Spring 1993, p. 3.
3. Kenneth Rystrom, The Why, Who and Howofthe Editorial Page. New York: Random House, 1983, pp. 305-306.
4. Robert B. Semple Jr. All the Views That Are Fit to Print in Op-Ed at 20, a special section of the New York Times. Sunday, September 30, 1990. Section 4A, p.1. 15.
5. Harry W. Stonecipher, Editorial and Persuasive Writing: Opinion Functions of the News Media. New York: Communication Arts Books, Hastings House, 1979, pp.224-227.
6. Robert Famighetti, ed., The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1994. Mahwah, New Jersey: Funk & Wagnalls, World Almanac Books, 1994, p. 291. The Almanac reports that as of February 1, 1993 there were 1,570 dailies in the U.S. with a total daily circulation of 60,164,499, an average circulation of 38, 321. The top 100circulating dailies account for more than 50 percent of the total circulation (average: 305,582), while the remaining 1,470 papers have an average circulation of 20, 140. While papers with more than 100,000 circulation represent about 7 percent of the national total, these large papers comprise 22.6 percent of the survey sample.
7. Julie Winkelpleck, ed. Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. vols 1 and 2.
8. Andrew Ciofalo, Harrison E. Salisbury: Father of Op-Ed Journalism. The Sentinel, monthly section in the Baltimore Chronicle, November 1993.