Social Control in the Newsroom: A Functional Analysis

A Comparison of Environmental Pollution Coverage in the Mainstream, African American, and Other Alternative Press

“…If indeed, the ultimate control of a business lies in its owner, some research has suggested that the only way to differentiate content is to differentiate owners (Shoemaker & Reese, 1990). Indeed, ownership has been suggested to be paramount in deciding journalism norms, behaviors and routines because it is the owners who ñ either directly or indirectlyhave the greatest influence over the final product (Bagdikian, 2000;Boylan, 1986;Breed, 1955;Compaine, 1985;Hallin, 1992). This influence on content may be based on the ownerís relationship with the community.…”

Covering Presidential Election Campaigns: Does Reporter Gender Affect the Work Lives of Correspondents and Their Reportage?

“…On the other hand, women employed in smaller news organizations seem to practice journalism in line with the traditional gender model. Organizational socialization which is described as the course of "learning content and process by which an individual adjusts to a specific role in an organization" (Chao, O'LearyKelly, Wolf, Klein, & Gardner, 1994) has been documented to occur in news organizations, partly in top to bottom flow, but mainly through a more subtle process of osmosis, as Breed (1955) describes it. This acquisition of professional identity and work routines trumps gender socialization, according to some female journalists.…”

How valuable is formal science training to science journalists?

“…In other words, one could account for most of the variance in reporter performance by understanding the norms of that reporter's particular newsroom (Breed, 1955).…”