This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of journalism-related topics, including the following: the needs of community newspapers; factors affecting reader evaluation of authors; reader differentiation between news stories and editorials; the training of high school publications advisers; the nonfiction novel; investigative reporting; perceived impact of the print media on policy making; the news writing behavior of student reporters; constitutional protection of freedom of the student press; performance of university student newspapers within the context of student activism; computer analyses of newspaper prose; career patterns among journalism graduates; agenda-setting by newspapers; women printers in colonial New England; the history of the University of California Press; and historical trends related to children's print advertising and to the development of objectivity as an ideal in the professions of law and journalism. (GW)