Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 112 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-112).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-135). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis involved an analysis of editorials in selected Indiana college newspapers. This analysis attempted to find out what college editors were saying. A major concern of this study was t o determine whether college editors were commenting primarily on campus topics or whether they were writing mostly about off-campus subjects.There are approximately forty-two college newspapers in Indiana. The numbers vary with economic conditions and other factors unique to a particular college. Newspapers were categorized according to frequency of distribution--newspapers published more than once a week, weekly, and less than once a week. Then they were rank ordered by enrollment figures within each distribution group.Four schools, representing various enrollment figures and geographic locations, were chosen from each of the three frequency categories. Four issues representing a two-month Period were obtained from each of the twelve schools. These forty-eight issues yielded a total of fifty-five editorials to be surveyed.Editorials were classified according to geographic emphasis and subject category. Demographic factors such as frequency of distribution, financial support of newspaper, campus enrollment, financial support of college, and editorial percentage of newshole were also included in this analysis.The findings of this study indicate college editors published most of their editorials about campus affairs. Of the fifty-five editorials surveyed, comment about the administration accounted for the largest percentage of editorial content, although the largest number of editorials were written about campus life.Newspapers published less than once a week devoted all of their editorial space to campus topics. However, college weeklies published more column inches about campus topics and used a bigger portion of their newshole for editorials than the other two newspaper groups.Private school newspapers reserved all their editorial comment for campus affairs while public school newspapers reserved some editorial comment for non-campus topics.Newspapers supported primarily by subsidy devoted the greatest percentage of editorials to campus life. Newspapers supported primarily by subscription devoted the largest Percentage of their editorial content to the administration. Newspapers supported primarily by advertising devoted the largest percentage of their editorial content to non-campus news while newspapers supported by a variety of methods devoted the largest percentage of their editorial content to campus life.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

This thesis used a questionnaire to survey use of the editorial conference and other editorial practices at daily newspapers in Indiana. The responses from seventy-four dailies were reported. Nine were found to use the editorial conference as frequently as once a week. The thesis identified those dailies and examined the details of their conference: their members, the job-titles of their members, their editorial output, the times and places of their meetings, the functions of the conference, and the reported advantages and disadvantages of the conference. In addition, the thesis identified the persons, by job-title, who write editorials at Indiana dailies not reporting use of the editorial conference. It tabulated and compared editorial output by job-title and, also, identified sources of non-staff written editorials. It examined editorial output at the dailies ranked according to their circulation, the number of persons who were reported as writing editorials and the process the dailies reported that they use to select the subjects and to decide the attitudes of editorials.

This thesis examined the content of sixteen Indiana newspapers, chosen at random, to calculate the topic classification of editorials. Because of concern for chained newspaper growth 'in America, this study attempted to draw conclusions as to the topics of editorials printed in both chained and unchained newspapers. Since "one-publisher" cities are also increasing, further aspects of this study, examined editorials in newspapers of varying circulation categories.Indiana has eighty-two daily newspapers - 30 chained, and 52 unchained. From the complete list, sixteen papers were randomly chosen - two chained and two unchained from each of the following four circulation categories: 1-10,000; 10-20,000; 20-50,000; and 50,000 up.Editorials from a ten-day sampling over two, two-month periods were examined and classified according to the defined topics of "local," "state," "national," and "international."The findings of the study showed that Indiana newspapers, whether chained or unchained, large or small, editorialized most heavily on national issues. However, comparatively, chained newspapers published more local and state editorials than did unchained papers. The unchained newspapers published approximately twice the number of national editorials as 'state and local editorials, combined. The newspapers with the largest circulations, also, published more local editorials than did small papers, but the small papers surpassed the large papers in printing state editorials. However, small papers did concentrate more heavily on national issues than large circulating dailies did. No classification of newspaper, consistently, printed many nternational editorials.The conclusions of the study show that chained newspapers and those with large circulations are doing a better job of localizing editorials than are the unchained newspapers anti small circulating dailies. However, this study was a quantitative account of editorial topics and it made no attempt to study the quality of the editorials.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-74).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-182). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.