More Than 70 Leading Journalists Urge Newspaper Associationto Acknowledge Failure to Aid Journalists Fleeing Hitler (1/2)

U.S. Newswire, February, 2006

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As reported in today's New York Times, more than seventy leading journalists and journalism professors (see below) have signed a letter urging the Newspaper Association of America to acknowledge the failure of American journalists to aid German Jewish refugee journalists who were trying to flee Hitler in the 1930s.

The letter was initiated by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and former New York Times reporter Laurence Zuckerman. It has also been reported on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," in Editor & Publisher, and by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (part 1 of 2):

The letter comes in response to new research by journalism professor Laurel Leff, of Northeastern University, who found that U.S....

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