Abstract
The professional aspect of journalism came in for an especial degree of discussion during the spring of 1948 as the ACEJ made its long-awaited announcement of its first list of accredited institutions. Several individual schools reported on their educational programs in the trade and professional journals, and in the newspaper field an increasing interest was shown in problems of improved news writing and readability of news copy. These seemed to be related signs of a general awareness that journalism was in a state of change. Mechanically this was reflected in continued research into “cold type” printing and related processes, the Chicago Tribune's experiment with newsprint made from straw, and the Chicago Herald-American's work in magnetic ad layout sheets. The printers’ fight with publishers over the Taft-Hartley law continued indecisively, meantime. With television coverage of the national political conventions in Philadelphia, radio in the field of public events entered a major new phase of development itself, and in radio circles also there was increased interest in the professional responsibility of communications. —W. F. S.
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