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Journalism Studies

Ouachita Baptist University

Series

1997

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Scholarly But Relevant: A Comparison Of Topic Frequency Between Journalism Quarterly, Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media And Rtnda Communicator, David Ozmun Apr 1997

Scholarly But Relevant: A Comparison Of Topic Frequency Between Journalism Quarterly, Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media And Rtnda Communicator, David Ozmun

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This study compares the topics addressed in a professional trade publication, the RTNDA Communicator, with topics specifically addressing broadcast news in the scholarly journals Journalism Quarterly and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. The purpose of the research was to help ascertain whether television and radio news directors will find the research and issues of academic journal researchers useful and relevant to their journalism responsibilities.

The findings are based on a content analysis of the publications from 1992-1994, and are a partial replication of an earlier study that compared the content of Quill, Editor and Publisher and Columbia …