Ralph D. Casey

The Challenge to Journalism Education

Journalism schools need clearer concepts of their purposes, better faculties, more productive research … and they must imbue students more effectively with a sense of the journalists social responsibility.

Publishers and Newsmen Debate Composition of British Council

Working journalists, who initiated the inquiry of the British Royal Commission on the Press, seem determined to see a permanent, voluntary agency established in accordance with the Commissions proposals. If successful, the experiment might inspire similar efforts at self-improvement in other countries.

Teachers, Editors, and the Communication Art

The old-style curriculum does not meet the challenge of the new world, says the director of the School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota in urging educators to keep abreast of liberal and responsible leadership in the communications field.

The Press, Propaganda, and Pressure Groups

a helpless America into belligerency. Mr. Hunt was correct in saying that many a citizen, confused and excited, threw up his hands and exclaimed, &dquo;What can I believe?&dquo; Disillusionment and anxiety on the part of the public were understandable when the present war broke out. A great tide of printed material dealing with the manipulations of the propagandists of belligerent nations had flowed from the publishing houses since World War I, and studies of propaganda in the domestic field had whetted in-

The Scholarship of Frank Luther Mott

Scholar, writer, editor, teacher—above all, a vibrant personality enjoying life and sharing the quest for learning with a great circle of students, colleagues and readers who will forever remember him.

A Book Review-Essay: 50 Years of Oregon Journalism School History

From the department’s fledgling beginnings through its maturing development, George Turnbull was a dedicated participant in its endeavor, gaining intimate knowledge of its achievements and disappointments. He has never been remote from the work of his successors, and when they began planning the 1962 observance of the school’s golden anniversary, they welcomed him as the chronicler of the half-century story.

Current “News Hole” Policies of Daily Newspapers: A Survey

This article summarizes a study of space control policies of a sample group of metropolitan and non-metropolitan daily newspapers, procedures devised to meet present rising production costs and to systematize space allotments in terms of current needs of news and advertising.

Report of the AEJ Committee on Liaison with UNESCO

As a sequel to the UNESCO proposal for an International Press Institute, reported in the Quarterly for March 1948, two private institutes now have come into being. These and other developments are discussed in this report and the report of the Committee on Foreign Schools and Students, which follows.

Book Review: The Analysis of PropagandaThe Analysis of Propaganda. By HummelWilliam and HuntressKeith. New York: William Sloan Associates, Inc. 1949. viii + 222 pp.

fine photographic details well. It is hoped that Prentice-Hall, which now. has the book, will produce a less expensive edition for use as a college text. In common with several other books in the field, Mr. Feiningers book cites Eastman products, and Ansco to a lesser extent, quite frequently. A probable explanation is that products of these companies are most readily available to most picture-takers. Mr. Feiningers personality shows in the book occasionally, with a bit of dry humor or a sympathetic tear for the bungling beginner. He does not pretend that photographers are a class apart, conceived in a special part of Heaven. However, he does say that he believes photographers are born, not made. The author is referring here to the art form, which he maintains must be a part of the photographers makeup, and without which the picture-taker is a skilled craftsman, not a creator. Two or three minor errors, probably in copyreading, do not detract materially from the books value. EVERTON CONGER University of New Mexico

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WORLD COMMUNICATIONS: PRESS, RADIO, FILM. Edited by Albert A. Shea. Paris: UNESCO, 1950. 220 pp. American sales agent, the Columbia University Press, New York 27, N. Y. ~ nus SURVEY OF NATIONAL COMMUnications facilities, compiled by a division of the UNESCO Department of Mass Communications, is one of a series of publications devoted to the study of the problem of the free flow of information on a world scale. As a handbook of information on the size and distribution of the communications facilities which exist in each continent, state and territory of the world, World Communications gathers a solid compendium of factual information for the first time in a single volume. As the compilers point out in the foreword, their objective was to get the facts and to make them available as expeditiously as possible. They have done this admirably even though they faced a serious problem in getting up-to-theminute information from those areas undergoing drastic political and social change. To make the information available quickly, completeness of data had to be sacrificed in some instances, a shortcoming which the authors expect to remedy in a future edition. The result of the compromise, however, is an apparent unevenness in the presentation of information concerning individual countries. In some cases, the description of the communication facilities of a state is impoverished by an obvious lack of complete and recent information while in others a concise but adequate compilation of data is provided. China is an example of the former condition, a fact which the authors indicate. In this case data relate to the 1947-48 period. Since that time conditions in China have been altered radically. With continental China under Communist domination and Nationalist forces reduced to the island of Formosa (Taiwan), mass communication facilities have been nationalized; many newspapers have ceased publication, and ties with Westem news agencies have been broken. Faults of this nature were unavoidable within the framework in which the research team operated. The excellence of its presentation, in any case, more than compensates for the deficiencies. The survey itself is divided into three parts: an introductory section, entitled Graphics, which deals with the over-all world communication picture; a section describing communication facilities on a country-by-country basis, and a section of tabulated data, which provides a comparative analysis not only of the news agency, press, radio and film facilities of the countries of the world but of the size of national populations, their concentration and literacy.