American Society of Newspaper Editors

The American Society of Newspaper Editors, also known as ASNE, is a membership organization for daily newspaper editors, people who serve the editorial needs of daily newspapers (wire service editors, news executives at newspaper companies, people who work for journalism think tanks, etc.) and certain distinguished people who have worked on behalf of editors through the years. Editor has four major senses: a person who obtains or improves material for a publication; a film editor, a person responsible for the flow of a motion picture or television program from scene to scene a sound editor, a person responsible for the flow and choice of music, voice, and...

Founded in 1922, its members come together to share ideas primarily through its annual convention. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

ASNE also has several initiatives carried out by its committees.

It also runs several projects, generally carried out by staff with advice from committees. Projects subject areas have included diversity, credibility and readership. Additional projects include the Institute for Journalism Excellence, a program for reacquainting educators in journalism schools with the newsroom and the International Journalism Exchange, which brings international journalists into U.S. newspapers to share ideas and work experiences. A journalism school is a school, usually a part of an established university, where journalists are trained. ... The place where journalists, either reporters or editors, work to gather news to be published in a newspaper or magazine. ...

A major project of ASNE is the High School Jounalism Initiative, launched in 2000. Supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the initiative hopes to reinvigorate scholastic journalism and student newspapers through newspaper adviser institutes, partnerships between high schools and daily newspapers, providing resources to high school journalists like online hosting and wire services and a major Web site. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A student newspaper is a newspaper run by university or high or middle school students that covers local and in particular school/university news. ... Japanese high school students in uniform High school, or Secondary school, is the last segment of compulsory education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (Republic of China) (only junior high school) and the United States. ... A news agency is an organization journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ...

History

The founding of the organization is a colorful one.

In 1912, Louis Hill, the son of James J. Hill "The Empire Builder" was less enamored with running the Great Northern Railway as he was with promoting Glacier National Park and the "American Alps." To that end, the railway built a series of hotels and backcountry houses on a Swiss chalet theme throughout the area. But before they were finished to build interest he gave newspaper editors of all stripes free group publicity junkets to the park, whereupon they wrote some truly scintilating copy (a virtual cool respite in some of the oppressive summers of that decade). During one of those -- and there were several -- Casper Yost of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat was joined by editors from Kansas City; Detroit; Cleveland; Cincinnati; Sioux City, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; and Saint Joseph, Missouri. Yost was enraptured both by the stunning beauty of the park and by the fellowship of the editors he met on the trip. It started an idea in his mind of a national newspaper editor's group. 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... James J. Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a noted American railroad tycoon. ... Several Great Northern Railways have existed: Great Northern Railway of Australia. ... There are two places in the Rocky Mountains of North America named Glacier National Park: Glacier National Park (U.S.) in Montana Glacier National Park (Canada) in British Columbia. ... Publicity is one of the variables that comprise the promotional mix. ... The word junket has been used since the fifteenth century to refer to a dessert made of flavoured, sweetened curds. ... Casper Yost Casper Salathiel Yost (1863-1941) was the longtime editor of the St. ... Kansas City generally refers to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including: Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas Other Kansas City areas include: Kansas City, Oregon Kansas City, Tennessee In computing, the term Kansas City standard refers to a standard for storage of data on audio cassettes. ... This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the city of Ohio. ... Sioux City is a city located in Western Iowa. ... This article is about the state capital of Iowa. ... Saint Joseph (also known as St. ...

At the time, no editor’s organization existed. The American Newspaper Publishers Association (forerunner to the present-day Newspaper Association of America) had existed for years. Formed in 1887, ANPA was and is the group that newspapers and their publishers belonged to. ANPA’s publications were largely tip sheets on deadbeat advertisers and summaries of the legislation (for good or ill) then pending before or passed by the Congress_of_the_United_States. Likewise, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and Inland Press Association existed – largely at a regional level – to serve the interests of publishers. 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Seal of the Congress. ...

Yost ruminated over the dream of an editor organization for another 10 years — with World War I intervening — until he was spurred into action by two magazine articles. Published in January 1922 in The Atlantic Monthly, the articles were by Moorfield Storey, a well-known political independent and the first president of the NAACP, and Frederick Lewis Allen, secretary to the Harvard Corporation and creator (and likely first employee) of Harvard’s news bureau. Later he became known for his history “Only Yesterday.” Then men laid out arguments criticizing newspapers and calling for changes in them. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... Moorfield Storey (1845 - 1929) was a U.S. civil rights leader. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... Frederick Lewis Allen was a historian of the first half of the twentieth century whose specialty was writing about what was at the time recent and popular history. ... The President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation) is the more fundamental of Harvard Universitys two governing boards. ... This page is about the Japanese film. ...

The articles were thorough in their attacks and proposals and Yost was thoroughly incensed. He saw the need for editors to come together to combat such attacks (ironically, something Allen, himself, advocated): "I didn't know a half-a-dozen editors in the United States at that time. I couldn't name a dozen of them. We were all living a sort of monastic seclusion in our individual offices, and I though it would be a good thing if we could get together. Why doesn't somebody do that, I thought. Why doesn't somebody take the initiative and start a society? Then it occurred to me with rather a shock, why not do it yourself? So I did."

Once committed, Yost wrote to a few dozen editors soliciting support. The responses were positive and, just a month later, in February 1922, a small meeting was held in Chicago. Attendees included Yost and editors from Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. They gathered to discuss action they could take for the advancement of the news and editorial side, to develop a constitution and a code of ethics and to launch a recruiting campaign for the group. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

As the best way to reach the largest number of potential members, the editors called a meeting in New York that April, when editors would be congregating for the annual ANPA meeting (despite no formal mention of them by ANPA in its bulletins). Their efforts were so successful that by October nearly 100 charter members had signed up. State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

A key question at the time was how ASNE would be different from the existing organizations. ANPA was concerned with publishing issues and legislation; the SNPA and Inland Press were decidedly regional. And membership in all of these organizations was for newspapers -- not individuals. The founders decided that ASNE would be an organization of individual editors of big-city papers -- limiting membership to editors of newspapers in cities of 100,000 or more. (This became less elitist as the years went by.)

In October 1922, ASNE was launched with directors and officers; they hammered out a code of ethics, named committees and made preparations for the first convention at the New Willard Hotel in Washington the next April. The main facade of the Willard InterContinental The Willard InterContinental Washington is a historic and expensive hotel located equidistant from the White House and the National Mall in Washington, DC. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, and voluminous function rooms. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Other U.S. States Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire Official languages None Area 184,824 km² (18th)  - Land 172,587 km²  - Water 12,237 km² (6. ...

That convention was the first for the society; it has been held annually -- with the exception of 1945 -- mostly in Washington.

Since then, every U.S. president has spoken at the organization's convention and it is considered a premiere venue for politicians to appear.

External links

Official Web site

ASNE High School Journalism Initiative Web site