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

Abstract

The year 1946 witnessed the inauguration of several new journalistic undertakings –the U. S. State Department's international information program, the prospective doubling of the number of domestic commercial, radio stations, and new ideas for institutional advertising based on wartime experience. Of these, the first ran into immediate embarrassments as first the Associated Press and later the United Press declined to supply the government with further free service as they had done for the wartime program of the late OWI. A meeting to seek some sort of solution was requested by the State Department late in January. Meantime the question of free international news communications as a basic need for postwar international harmony continued to be discussed from the UNO down to many individual press groups, while in many war-wrecked countries the rehabilitation of newspaper and radio properties began to take tangible form.–W. F. S.