Minority Editorial Workers on Texas Daily Newspapers

Abstract

I32J 1)U R N A L I S M ditive complex signification word pictures. Number of stopping responses at the experimental units was used as an operational indicator of the amount of picturing work performed by respondents at those units. ResultsThere was significantly more stopping for multiple signification word pictures than for single signification word pictures. (Table I . ) There was significantly more stopping for interstitial complex signification word pictures than for word pictures made up of identical picture elements in additive constructions. (Table 2.) Summary and ConclusionsThe instruction of reporting may be facilitated by distinguishing the strategies and skills of the individual reporter from the societal concerns of journalism.Once a student has started confronting the reporter's problems of making and using pictures in individual minds, he should then be ready to approach the broader journalistic concerns of making and using pictures in a collective mind.Picturing provides a useful, procedural paradigm for the explication of relations among thoughts, words and things from the points of view of reporters and readers. The picturing paradigm also serves as a conceptual framework for the empirical investigation of the relations of within-message conditions t o conditions within readers.

The Parity Paradox: Reader Response to Minority Newsroom Staffing

“…Most of those early studies focused on the newspaper newsroom staffing levels of African Americans (Trayes, 1969(Trayes, , 1970(Trayes, , 1979, although at least one looked at Mexican Americans employed by Texas daily newspapers (Davis & Westmoreland, 1974). Studies examined the enrollment levels for African Americans in college journalism programs (Trayes, 1969) on the premise that these programs would eventually feed employees into newsrooms.…”