This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) print media and state trial courts, (2) the impact of computerization on the structure of newspaper organization, (3) a comparative study of the community press in urban and suburban areas, (4) journalism in congressional campaigns, (5) treatment of the first amendment in high school journalism textbooks as it relates to student press rights; (6) the effect of national development on news values, (7) the Soviet journalist, (8) the American press ombudsman, (9) newsgathering in state legislature, (10) the citation by American reporters of foreign news media and agencies, (11) the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren Burger and freedom of the press, (12) the role of newspapers in national politics from 1789 to 1816, (13) the British radical press and British foreign policy from 1850 to 1860, (14) the coverage in Nigerian news by four daily newspapers in the United States, and (15) the evolution of the invasion of privacy tort and its newsworthiness limitations. (HTH)