ABSTRACT
In the book reporting the findings of our 1992 national survey of U.S. journalists, we wrote that the three studies of 1971, 1982–1983, and 1992 suggested that the world around journalists “had changed much more than they have.” 1 We noted that one reason for this was that we had defined journalists in these studies to focus squarely on traditional news media. Another reason was that our portrait of journalists was based largely on what individual journalists told us rather than on a systematic study of their news organizations, although we did include questions about the backgrounds of journalists and the type, size, ownership, goals, and practices of the organizations for which they worked.
