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Social Control in the Newsroom: A Case Study

The problem of this study is to investigate how news policy in the Denton Record-Chronicle is defined and maintained and whether the newspaper staffers tend to conform to or conflict with the newspaper's news policy. The study suggests that the more experienced the staffer, the more likely he will conflict with the newspaper's news policy, and the less experienced the staffer, the more likely he will conform to the newspaper's news policy. Social control is in the hand of the newspaper organization. That is, the newspaper tends to control the mechanisms of social control. However, unless the newspaper recognizes the needs of the staffers' participation in its editorial decision, conflict may continue to be an important factor in the newsroom work-setting.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504308
Date08 1900
CreatorsAbderrahmane, Azzi
ContributorsVan Dyck, Harry R., Starr, Douglas P.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formati, 67 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Abderrahmane, Azzi, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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