Newspaper Features Research Articles

Integrating Local Governmental Topics

Students who pursue business and professional careers in natural resources and life sciences (NRLS) will have a decided need for a basic understanding of local government topics that shape public policy. The economic and legal parameters that governmental regulations impose on property ownership, business activities, land use, and employment are commonplace. Numerous lawsuits involving local governments disclose topics that would be timely and beneficial to NRLS students. A responsible curriculum in NRLS should provide students with opportunities to explore these issues, and one way is to incorporate such topics into existing classes. Depending on the purpose of the course offering and students' needs, supplementary materials on governmental funding, zoning and municipal ordinances, nuisance law and the right-to-farm, municipal liability, and not in my backyard (NIMBY) groups and strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) would be appropriate. Resources such as newspaper feature articles, law cases, journal articles, problem sets, self-authored summaries, field trips, and guest lecturers could supplement existing course texts to explain selected topics.

An Approach to Teaching About Diversity in American Communities

This article demonstrates an approach to incorporating newspaper reports into traditional teaching about American communities. Newspaper feature articles are summarized within a conceptual framework, illustrating ways in which the popular press can be used to examine issues of community ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity and community change.

Review: Reporting and Writing News, Newspaper Feature Writing, Now the News in Detail, A Guide to Broadcast Journalism in Australia

Review: Reporting and Writing News, Newspaper Feature Writing, Now the News in Detail, A Guide to Broadcast Journalism in Australia

Drugs and the Media

Abstract: “Drugs” are extremely newsworthy: each year they are the subject of literally thousands of items produced by the Australian media. Most of these items are repetitious, stereotypical and narrowly focused on crime, deviance and rectification. Illegal drug consumption by individuals and the efforts of medical and social welfare professionals to eradicate the “problem” so defined are the twin foci of the press and television. Legal substances (including tobacco and alcohol) are interpreted much more ambiguously, and are relatively infrequently the subject of journalistic analysis.The media systematically ignore the historical, economic and industrial aspects of drug production and consumption.“Drugs”, although habitually construed as the cause of “human” and “social” problems (and hence as necessitating administrative attention), seem strangely divorced from real political economic determinations. They serve as inexhaustabled pretexts for the proliferation of television current affairs items and newspaper features which seldom resist the image of the confessing, suffering victim. “Hard” news is preoccupied with reiterating the ritual drama of drug seizures and exposes of “organised” crime. Both the press and television educate their audiences to a resigned, alienated passivity.

The Recruitment Process

Reaching client populations is a difficult task that most practitioners and social service researchers must face. This paper reports and compares six procedures used to recruit couples who would participate in a group training program as part of a comparative research study. Recruitment methods included newspaper and radio announcements, a newspaper feature article, informative posters, mass mailing, and referrals from local agencies. The various procedures are compared in light of the reported findings and directions of future inquiries are suggested.

Using a Decision Model to Evaluate Newspaper Features Systematically

Using a Decision Model to Evaluate Newspaper Features Systematically

Generic Structure Potential Analysis of Feature Articles in Nigerian Newspapers

This paper investigated the generic structure potential of feature articles in four Nigerian newspapers: The Punch, The Nation, Vanguard and Nigerian Tribune. Halliday and Hassan’s concept of Generic Structure Potential served as the theoretical framework. The feature articles analysed had three obligatory elements: Headline, Orientation and Addressing the Issue, and three optional elements: Feature Lead, Proffering a Solution and Moral Lesson. A Nigerian newspaper feature article typically starts with a headline that may or may not be followed by a feature lead. This is followed by an orientation, an issue to be addressed, which is then followed by either a suggested solution or a moral lesson. The study posited that the GSP of feature articles in Nigerian newspapers can be catalogued as H^ [(FL) ^O^][AI^(PS).(ML.)].

The Genesis of Toby: A Folk Hero of the American Theater

THE VERY NATURE OF FOLKLORE usually precludes any possibility of watching the process of its development. If we know the actual creator of the work of folk art, this knowledge tends to forbid its classification as folklore; and in an art of such public nature as the theater, folk activity would be especially inhibited, since theatrical effect is usually controlled by one or two professionals or a very small professional group. Yet, paradoxically, in the development of the popular theatrical character Toby, we have a full record of his ancestry, knowledge of his very beginnings in Fred Wilson's portrayal of Tobe Haxton in Clouds and Sunshine, and the story of the development and modification of the character through audience response throughout the next twenty years. This extraordinary tale has been noticed and written about for the past thirtyfive or forty years in Sunday newspaper feature articles and theatrical journals, but it has been presented uncritically and inaccurately. Here is Toby's story, told as accurately as careful study of the printed records and the tradition handed down orally and through personal correspondence permits. Although theater historians have lately begun to take some notice of the tent repertory companies,1 their history along with that of the companies playing the small-town theaters or opera houses during an earlier period, has been generally neglected, and the creation of the Toby character either scorned or ignored. This attitude grew out of the contempt of the cities for the small towns and the resulting prejudice that the only theatrical activity worth writing about was that of the big cities. Even so, this small-town theater, with its own traditions and techniques, flourished completely independent of the metropolitan theater. In time a distinctive literature of melodrama and comedy based on the tastes and attitudes of the audiences developed, and two distinctive comedy characters originated: the Toby, the red-headed, freckle-faced youngster who is smarter than he looks, and the G-string, the garrulous and officious old man who is too easily gulled. Nevertheless, both the plays and these two characters have their roots in general theatrical tradition.

Newspaper ‘Legend’ Features: History versus Hokum

In this entertaining account of “The Goods and Their Castle—Part of the Mystery Unraveled,” a historian takes the time to challenge a newspaper feature story based on “local legend” in order to point a moral.

A Technique for the Evaluation of Growth in Certain Affective Phases of Reading among High-School Pupils

Much research has been done, especially in recent years, to determine the nature of the reading interests of high-school pupils. The bulk of this research has centered attention on discovering what pupils actually real, and the character of the distribution of reading interest. Surveys have been made to determine what library titles are most in demand among adolescent readers, what newspaper features appeal most strongly, and what proportion of interest is attracted by essays, by novels, by plays, by poetry, and so on. An extensive fund of information of this sort has been built up.

The effect of newspaper feature articles on referrals to a child guidance clinic1

The effect of newspaper feature articles on referrals to a child guidance clinic¹

Must We Read the “Hundred Great Books”?

T HERE was a time, not so long ago, when the ability to quote in the original some apt phrases from the classics was the badge of scholarship-the sign that one belonged to that small, select group of men who had experienced the higher education. That time has gone, but not with the assurance that it may not return in some slightly modified form to humiliate those of us who have not read the landmarks of the literate past even in translation. When the pronouncements from the University of the Chimes in the Windy City are disseminated in the general magazines of national circulation, and a famous metropolitan newspaper features the story that all is not quiet at night in a little liberal-arts college along the Potomac, it is high time to take stock of the situation. The uncritical reader might thinkand others are actually thinking, I have learned with some astonishment-that the whole system of higher education is under fire; that the opening gun has been fired near a new rude bridge along the lake front in Chicago; and that every other institution must soon declare its allegiance to one side or the other as a matter of academic loyalty. But in the other institutions in general there is calm, a calm not unlike that within the well-entrenched and sleeping army while an enemy raiding party snipes at the outposts. Just what is this issue which is supposed to be dividing the educational world, providing a new ideology, and founding a new intellectual axis? Upon careful examination the issue breaks down to a demand for more thinking, or more emphasis upon thinking-particularly upon the kind of thinking loosely classified as philosophical -in the process of higher education. And what is the solution proposed? Why, obviously, more thinkingabout serious matters. And how is this to be done? Well, in part, by study of the great books. This seems to be no Herculean task, as Hutchins points out that ordinary children mastered them at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century and in New England and Virginia in the eighteenth,' according to Milton S. Mayer in an article, Hutchins of Chicago. It seems pertinent to