This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: publisher and journalist attitudes toward collective bargaining; editorial support for freedom of speech and press; the need for a scholarly index to collections of black newspapers published from 1880 to 1915; the daily newspaper industry in the United States; the social organization of media news production; innovations in newspaper technology; magazine journalism education in Britain, Canada, and the United States; a comparative analysis of newspaper and television coverage of the 1976 Democratic National Convention; a Q-study of the value structures and professionalism of reporters, editors, and photographers; the new printing technology and journalism education; how advanced reporting courses are taught and what they contain; gag orders and the First Amendment; and the influence of network television news on public opinion. (FL)