Dr. Glen L. Bleske This is Me

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1. 1. Dow Jones Newspaper Fund - Monitor List

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   Published on: 3/27/2006   Last Visited: 12/30/2007

   Professor Glen Bleske California State University, Chico (530) 898-4770

2. 2. ASNE - 1998 Institute for Journalism Excellence Fellows announced

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   Published on: 12/14/1998   Last Visited: 10/23/2006

   Glen L. Bleske, assistant professor, Department of Journalism, California State University - Chico; Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ontario, Calif.

3. 3. American Copy Editors Society

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   Published on: 9/26/2003   Last Visited: 1/19/2006

   Headlines help readers recall information from stories and affect the way readers organize that information, according to a study by Glen Bleske, a professor at California State University-Chico. In a 1992 experiment, he had groups of students read four news stories - some with headlines, some without headlines - then tested their recall in two ways. Students who received stories with headlines scored significantly higher on a multiple-choice test about the stories than students who did not receive headlines. Students who received no headline also remembered stories in different ways than students who received headlines. Asked to write down what they recalled about the stories, students who got no headlines tended to focus on the people in the story if there were people or the narrative of the story if it contained few people. Students who received stories with headlines, in contrast, tended to reflect in what they wrote the angle on the story that the headline had used.
   
   Read more: Glen L. Bleske, "Schematic Frames and Reader Learning: The Effect of Headlines," paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 1995 convention, available in the AEJMC archive: http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html
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   At some newspapers, copy editors' jobs are far different from what editing textbooks suggest they will be, Glen Bleske found after observing two copy editors - a veteran and an inexperienced editor - at a 60,000-circulation Southeastern newspaper. Both said they had little time to improve story structure and organization, a type of editing some texts focus on extensively. They also routinely cut wire stories from the bottom without reading to the end, a practice editing textbooks disdain. Pressed by an approaching deadline, one of the copy editors "edited" a story in 90 seconds. There was never time to read stories more than once.
   
   Read more: Glen L. Bleske, "The Romance and Reality of Copy Editing: A Newsroom Case Study," paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2002 convention, available in the AEJMC archives: http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html