Broadcasting Market Flooded by Non-News Radio-TV Majors

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Goldman K. (1985, July 10). Journalism grads find TV jobs scarce. Variety, pp. 33, 72.

Jensen E. (1986, August 25). Laid-off employees flood news market. Electronic Media, pp. J1, J21–22.

The J-school explosion (1974, November 11). Time, p. 101.

Kellogg S. (1984, December). Slowing down the journalism machine. RTNDA Communicator, pp. 62–63.

Lippman J. (1986, July 16). It's layoff city blues in media land. Variety, pp. 91, 113.

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Stone V.A. (1978, August). News staff size, turnover and sources surveyed. RTNDA Communicator, p. 8.

Stone V.A. (1983, March). Staff turnover survey. RTNDA Communicator, pp. 27–29.

Stone V.A. (1985, September). Survey shows college graduates getting jobs. RTNDA Communicator, pp. 32, 35–36. Completed questionnaires were returned in late summer and early fall of 1984 by news directors at 463 non-satellite commercial TV stations (66 percent of the 705 with working addresses) and 327 commercial radio stations (40 percent of a sample of 810 of the 6,500 eligible stations, with joint AM-FM news operations counted only once). Stone's RTNDA surveys in other years have used the same method and obtained similar response rates.

Stone V.A. (1986, March). News staffs change little in size. RTNDA Communicator, pp. 14–15.