Industrial Relations as News

Abstract

During 1976 a study of the treatment of industrial relations by tour New Zealand metropolitan newspapers was carried out at Massey University. In 1977 a larger study dealing with the treatment of industrial relations by television, radio and eight major newspapers was carried out at Canterbury University. In this article the authors examine the news coverage of industrial relations by the mass media taking account not only of the New Zealand but also of the American and British research findings.