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

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

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• Existing Decision-Making Practices at Local Television Stations

  Open Access•Ted Joseph•Psychological Reports•1982

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• New patterns of management

  Rensis Likert•New patterns of management•1987

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• New Ways of Managing Conflict

  Stuart M Klein, Rensis Likert et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1979

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• Management by Participation

  Vernon E Buck, Alfred J Marrow et al.•Industrial and Labor Relations…•1968

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