Publication Title

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Chain Ownership, Organizational Size, and Editorial Role Perceptions

Authors

Roya Akhavan-Majid, St. Cloud State UniversityFollow
Timothy Boudreau

Document Type

Peer Reviewed Article

Publication Date

12-1995

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between chain ownership and editorial role perceptions to illuminate the impact of chain ownership on content. Based on 258 questionnaires returned by a nation-wide sample of daily newspaper editors, the study found the editors of chain-owned newspapers to be more likely than their independent counterparts to subscribe to activist role perceptions. The tendency toward activist values increased as the size of the chain increased. Further, in general, editors of larger news organizations tended to subscribe to activist values more than did editors in smaller organizations.

Comments

NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published as:

Akhavan-Majid, Roya (1995). "Chain Ownershp, Organizational Size, and Editorial Role Perceptions." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp.863-873. DOI: 10.1177/107769909507200409

Recommended Citation

Akhavan-Majid, Roya and Boudreau, Timothy, "Chain Ownership, Organizational Size, and Editorial Role Perceptions" (1995). Mass Communication Faculty Publications. 6.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/comm_facpubs/6