The spring issue of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly includes articles by four School of Journalism faculty members: professors Randal Beam, Mike Conway, Dan Drew and David Weaver.

Randal Beam's article, "Organizational Goals and Priorities and the Job Satisfaction of U.S. Journalists," is based on the latest American Journalist study and looks at the different perceptions of news supervisors and rank-and-file journalists of their organizations' goals and priorities, and how these are related to job satisfaction.

Mike Conway's article, "The Subjective Precision of Computers," compares human versus computer-assisted coding of newspaper coverage of a political campaign, and finds some significantly different results.

Dan Drew and David Weaver's article, "Voter Learning in the 2004 Election: Did the Media Matter?" is the fifth in their series of such studies since the 1988 presidential election. It finds that paying attention to television news, televised debates and now Internet news are correlated with learning candidate issue positions and interest in the election campaigns, in spite of the criticism of news media coverage of these
campaigns.