Phillip Tichenor, with his colleagues Clarice N. Olien and George A. Donahue, reported on their research on the media and communities in a scientific book, "Community Conflict and the Press," published by Sage Publications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., in 1980.

In retirement, Tichenor has written a novel, "Athena’s Forum," that captures much of the insight of that work. It was published by Marquette Books in Spokane, Wash.