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Daily Newspaper Reporters' and Editors' Preferences Toward Reporter Decision-Making and Existing Practices

Department of Communication, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606.

This study attempted to assess the attitudes of American city and county daily newspaper reporters and editors toward reporter decision-making, and to determine existing decision-making practices. A national sample demonstrated that reporters want, in general, to be consulted by management before management makes decisions. On several work-related decisions, however, reporters want to control the decision-making process; on other issues, they have relatively little participation interest. Editors want less reporter participation than reporters, and the difference is substantial on many work-related issues. Female editors would allow slightly more reporter decision-making than male editors. These reporters also want more participation than exists. Smaller newspaper organizations allow more reporter decision-making than larger news organizations.

Human Relations, Vol. 35, No. 7, 539-545 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/001872678203500703


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