Press and Communications: An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism Subjects in American Magazines

Abstract

Labor-management relations in the newspaper industry were building up to the gravest crisis since the days of the early Guild organization in the fall of 1947 as the International Typographical Union voted a showdown on the Taft-Hartley act and the publishers’ associations lined up to oppose them. The continuing rise in the cost of newsprint added to the production problems in the publishing field. In the editorial field, the formation of a new national association of editorial writers and a new continuing study of AP news reports emphasized the newspapers’ interests in improved reading matter. The question of international news freedom reached the United Nations in several forms, and at once resulted in the usual lineups of opposing groups in favor of or opposed to lessened controls over information.—W. F. S.