{"id":730,"date":"2011-05-03T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=730"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:51:20","slug":"barrett-edward-ware-1910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"BARRETT, EDWARD WARE, 1910-1989."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporter, correspondent; journalism educator. Born&#8211; July 3, 1910, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Edward Ware and Lewis Robertson (Butt) Barrett. Married&#8211; Mason Daniel, November 25, 1939. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Princeton University, A.B., 1932; attended University of Dijon in France; Bard College, LL.D., 1950. Began his career in 1933 as a reporter for the Birmingham Age-Herald, which his father had owned.\u00a0Went to work for\u00a0Newsweek in 1933, its first year of publication; worked for the magazine a total of seventeen years. Helped set up the overseas division of the U.S. Office of War Information; directed propaganda broadcasts to Europe, 1942-1946; editorial director for Newsweek, 1946-1950; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1950-1952; executive vice-president of Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm, 1953-1956; dean of Columbia University&#8217;s Graduate School of Journalism, 1956-1968; director of the Communications Institute of the Academy for Educational Development, 1969-1977; founder and publisher of Columbia\u00a0Journalism Review, beginning in 1975. Member of the Foreign Policy Asociation and the Council on Foreign Relations. LL. D.,\u00a0 Bard College, 1950. Died October 23, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1978-1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Truth is Our Weapon. New York; Funk &amp; Wagnall, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educational TV; Who Should Pay? Washington, D.C.; American Institute for Public Policy Research, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalists in Action. Manhasset, N.Y.; Channel Press, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Reporter, correspondent; journalism educator. Born&#8211; July 3, 1910, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Edward Ware and Lewis Robertson (Butt) Barrett. Married&#8211; Mason Daniel, November 25, 1939. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Princeton University, A.B., 1932; attended University of Dijon in France; Bard College, LL.D., 1950. Began his career in 1933 as a reporter for the Birmingham Age-Herald, which his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}