NEWS COUNCIL PICKS EXECUTIVE EDITOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: July 17, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS COUNCIL PICKS
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
The National News Council,
a foundation-financed organiza-
tion set up to monitor national
media performance and freedom
of press issues, yesterday
named William B. Arther,
former editor of Look magazine,
as its executive director.
Roger J. Traynor, former chief
justice of the California Su-
preme Court, who also an-
nounced the appointment of
Ned Schnurman, former city
editor for WCBS-TV news, as
associate director. For the time
being, the council's office will
be at the Twentieth Century
Fund, 41 East 70th Street.
The council, composed of 15
persons, will consider com-
plaints from any person or
organization concerning the ac-
curacy or fairness of news dis-
seminated by any national news-
gathering organization, pro-
vided that the complainant!
waives any court action against
the news-gathering organiza-1
tion,
The Council's budget will be,
$40,000., annually for three'
years. The members of the
council are:
JOAN GANZ COONEY, president of the
Children's Television Workshop, which
created "Sesame street."
THOMAS B. CURTIS, former Congressman
from Missouri, ,now vice president and
general counsel of Encycloecdla BrHan?
nica, who resinned last month as chairman
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
IRVING DILLIARD, formerly editorial page
editor of The St. Louis Post Dispatch, P11.90
Emeritus Professor of Journalism at:
Prinreon IJniversiiy.
ALBERT GORE, formerly United States!
Senator from Tennessee, now chairman of
the hoard of Island Creek Coal Company,
Cleve'and.
DOROTHY R. HEIGHT, director of the Racial
Justice Center of the Young Women's.
Christian Association of the United Slates'
and president of the National Council of
THE REV. JAMES M. LAWSON, Jr., oastorl
of Centenary United Methodist Church,
Memphis, and a dealer In the nonviolent
civil rights movement.
ROBERT B. McKAY, dean of the New York
University Law School,
SYLVIA ROtERTS, Baton Rouge attorney,
who heads the committee on rights for
women of the American Bar Association's
section on individual rights and is Presi.
dent of the Legal Defense and Education
fund of the National Organization tar
Women.
LOREN F. GHIGLIONE, editor and publisher
of the Soultbridge, Mass., Evening News.
MAR T. (MOLLY) IVMS, co-editor of the
Texas Observer.
RALPfI M. Oiwell, managing editor of the
Chicago Sun?Times.
RALPH RENICK, vice president/news di.
rector of WTVJ, Miami.
WILLIAM A. RUSHER, Publisher of the
National Review.
R. PETER STRAUS, president of Straus Corn
munications, Inc., which operates radio
station WMOA in New York.
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