%0 Journal Article %1 usher_resurrecting_2009 %A Usher, Nikki %D 2009 %J Journalism Studies %K 1930s externalist freedom-of-press institutional intellectual interwar journalism united-states %N 3 %P 311--326 %R 10.1080/14616700903391888 %T Resurrecting the 1938 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Symposium on the Freedom of the Press %V 11 %X In 1938, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch convened a symposium on the freedom of the press in response to a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President hoped to have a 'national symposium' to discuss whether a free press could truly exist in a for-profit media system. The Symposium on the Freedom of the Press brought together 120 public intellectuals to discuss the matter. Here, I attempt to reacquaint scholars with this forgotten collection of contributions on the subject. I specifically focus my analysis on two major themes: the way contributors define public interest and their response to Roosevelt's question as to whether a newspaper could only be edited in the interests of the 'counting room,' as he put it.

@article{usher_resurrecting_2009, abstract = {In 1938, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch convened a symposium on the freedom of the press in response to a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The President hoped to have a 'national symposium' to discuss whether a free press could truly exist in a for-profit media system. The Symposium on the Freedom of the Press brought together 120 public intellectuals to discuss the matter. Here, I attempt to reacquaint scholars with this forgotten collection of contributions on the subject. I specifically focus my analysis on two major themes: the way contributors define public interest and their response to Roosevelt's question as to whether a newspaper could only be edited in the interests of the 'counting room,' as he put it.}, added-at = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, author = {Usher, Nikki}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24b0138414a7edddcf1d5402ef268a0e9/jpooley}, doi = {10.1080/14616700903391888}, interhash = {05def0263cc5d7e39426c9285fd2af3d}, intrahash = {4b0138414a7edddcf1d5402ef268a0e9}, journal = {Journalism Studies}, keywords = {1930s externalist freedom-of-press institutional intellectual interwar journalism united-states}, number = 3, pages = {311--326}, timestamp = {2019-08-29T01:56:31.000+0200}, title = {Resurrecting the 1938 {{St}}. {{Louis Post}}-{{Dispatch Symposium}} on the {{Freedom}} of the {{Press}}}, volume = 11, year = 2009 }