This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the Supreme Court and the limits of the First Amendment in "Zurcher v. Stanford Daily"; (2) the radical journalist, I. F. Stone; (3) group owned vs. independentl owned newspapers; (4) the public career of Cornelia Phillips Spencer; (5) attempts to balance First Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights; (6) the Hearst press campaign to fortify an American Isthmian canal; (7) Charles Dickens as educational journalist; (8) the Russian government and the newspaper "Sel'skii Vestnik" ("Village Herald"); (9) the beginnings of American literary journalism; (10) occupational health in the mainstream and advocacy press; and (11) the effects of positive versus negative news on newspaper advertising response. (HTH)