This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) newspaper competition in Phoenix, Arizona, since 1947; (2) American journalism and China from 1945 to 1950; (3) the potential of newspapers as aids in establishing societal change and consensus among urban immigrant populations; (4) reporter-source interaction in trial courts; (5) job performance expectations of recent journalism graduates and the importance of journalism education; (6) national differences in the press coverage of the Lebanese civil war; (7) the actual and preferred decision making practices of newspaper reporters and editors; (8) demographic characteristics and professional orientations of Nigerian journalists; (9) the relationship between the distribution of campus newspaper content and the college environment; (10) race and the Chicago press from 1850 to 1877; and (11) the contributions of Curtis D. MacDougall to journalism education. (RL)