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Collections documenting journalists, editors, and their profession are abundant and span many geographic areas. The papers of foreign correspondents, especially during wartime, include reporting on the Spanish Civil War, Chinese Civil War, both world wars, and conflicts in the Middle East. Radio broadcasts and news commentary also exist, notably in the records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
US journalist in China
Hearst newspaper foreign correspondent, 1917–61
United Press bureau chief, Madrid, 1933–36
Journalist and political leader for the Republic of China
US journalist; editor, Harper’s Magazine, 1971–81
US journalist in China
US journalist in Middle East
Editor, Collier’s Weekly, 1912–19; columnist, New York Herald-Tribune, 1923–52
US journalist; editor, Far Eastern Review, 1927–30
US journalist in China, the Soviet Union, and Spain
US journalist; national reports editor, Newsweek, 1948–60
US journalist and author on organized crime and terrorism
US journalist and author
Editor, New Masses, 1926–37; editor, Partisan Review, 1934–36
US journalist
US radio broadcasting organization
US radio broadcasting organization
United Press war correspondent in Spain, 1936–38
US author in Afghanistan, 2002–3
Vietnam War negatives and contact sheets submitted to alternative newspaper
American journalist documenting René Debray's trial in Bolivia
Related to journalism in China, includes memoirs of Hu Jiwei
Covers relations between journalists and military during surrender of Japan in WWII
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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired a new increment to the papers of Joseph Freeman, the American writer and magazine editor best known for his work with The New Masses, an influential Marxist journal (1926–48).
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired a significant new increment to its Karl H. von Wiegand papers. Von Wiegand, the only American-aligned war correspondent allowed to stay in Berlin during WWI, conducted one of the first interviews with Adolf Hitler.
Hoover Library & Archives recently acquired the personal papers of Tang Zhenchang (1922–2002), a celebrated intellectual whose areas of interest encompassed history, journalism, cinema, screenwriting, and literature. Born in Chengdu, in the Sichuan Province of China, Tang graduated from Yenching University, China’s preeminent Christian university in the modern era.
Journalists write the first draft of history, so the saying goes. Even beyond their newspaper articles and reports, the shelves of journalism history at modern university libraries are dotted with the grandiosely titled memoirs of journalists of the 20th century.
Intended as a counterpoint to the US Department of Defense-sanctioned press such as Stars and Stripes, Overseas Weekly (OW) was first published in 1950 by enterprising Stanford University graduates Cecil and Marion von Rospach. We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam, edited by Lisa Nguyen (The Hoover Institution Press; on sale August 1, 2018; 978-0-8179-2164-4; $49.95) unearths the important role of this publication in one of the most controversial periods of American history.
The Vietnam War occurred in a period of dramatic political, social, and cultural upheaval.
Silas Palmer fellow Niall Chithelen uses the archive of Randall C. Gould and Milly Bennett to better understand the lives of foreign journalists in twentieth-century China.
Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s most recent article in The New Yorker, entitled “Joe Gould’s Teeth,” explores the long and mysterious history of Gould’s life and his relationships to the literati of his day, including E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, and, most importantly, the journalist Joseph Mitchell, who first publicized Gould’s purported “Oral History of Our Time” manuscript in the pages of the New Yorker in 1942.
The finding aid to the Iris Chang papers in the archives has been expanded to include a description of the substantial increments added to the collection since it was originally received in 2004.
