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...editors of the free world, no problem is greater than covering Russia and its satellites, where a free press is unknown. Last week the International Press Institute, founded by the New York Times's Sunday Editor Lester Markel to explore just such matters, took up the problem in a report, The News from Russia. After sounding out more than 100 U.S. and foreign editors by questionnaire, I.P.I, concluded: "The occasional dispatch [an editor] receives from Moscow is completely misleading when he presents it in the traditional manner...
...better prepared for the unexpected than the New York Times. For its two-page summary of the "News of the Week in Review," which usually closes at 7 p.m., Sunday Editor Markel had .aken no chances. He had ordered four different leads written for the section (will run, won't run, etc.). When the speech came through, staffers quickly dropped in he right heads and lead, caught two-birds of the Sunday press run with a complete story on the Truman decision...
...problem in the world," says the New York Times's Sunday editor, Lester Markel, "is to educate public opinion at home and abroad to bring about a better understanding among peoples." The key men for this job, Markel thinks, are the world's newspaper editors. Last year, having raised $270,000 from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, he founded the International Press Institute, which now has members all over the world. The I.P.I. has now set up national committees of editors in 24 countries, and a permanent director has taken over at the institute's headquarters...
...people all over the world were better informed about the other people they call foreigners, it should become a less fearful, if not braver world. That is the modest hope of Editor Markel and I.P.I...
...guessing about how it would spend its $492 millions "for the public welfare," the Ford Foundation started to move. It gave $150,000 to the newly organized International Press Institute (the Rockefeller Foundation is chipping in $120,000). The institute, comprising 34 editors from 15 nations headed by Lester Markel, Sunday editor of the New York Times, will work for freer exchange of information among the world's journalists. Further grants announced last week by Ford Foundation President Paul Hoffman...