SoJ Web Report | Oct. 17, 2011
Doctoral student
Amy Ransford Purvis’ paper, "Roy W. Howard and the Early American Newspaper Guild: One Publisher's Approach to the Unionization of Journalists in the 1930s," won an honorable mention in the Robert Lance Memorial Award for the Outstanding Student Paper competition at the Oct. 6-8 American Journalism Historians Association meeting in Kansas City, Mo.
The paper explores the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain's attitude toward the formation of the Newspaper Guild and how its management, specifically Roy W. Howard, reacted to the evolution of the Guild.
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