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Oregon Exchanges was an American newspaper published by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications (SOJC) in the early 20th century. It initially described itself as a "Newspaper for Newspaper Men"; [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] by 1930, it had adopted the gender-neutral slogan "For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon." [6] Its first issue was published in June 1917, the year after the school's founding. By the October issue, it was announced that students in the editing class would edit the publication. [7] By 1920, students were producing the newspaper as part of their coursework in a course titled "Practical Editing." [8] The paper was reportedly greeted with much praise at a 1922 convention of Sigma Delta Chi, a national journalism society. [9]

Professor George Stanley Turnbull served as editor in 1923, [10] and that year it was named the official organ of the Oregon State Editorial Association. [11] In 1924, it published the second Oregon newspaper directory, which was prepared by the SOJC. [12] In 1929 Editor & Publisher described it as the "organ of the Oregon Press Association." [13] Oregon Exchanges was discontinued as part of a cost-cutting campaign resulting from the Great Depression in 1932. [14] It was succeeded a few months later by Oregon Publisher, which was produced by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, an organization with close ties to the SOJC. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Grammell, Fred A. (1917). "Oregon Exchanges"  . Vol. 1, no. 1. F.A. Grammell.
  2. ↑ October 6, 1945 News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon;
  3. ↑ Bishop, Ronald (2015-06-03). Community Newspapers and the Japanese-American Incarceration Camps: Community, Not Controversy. Lexington Books. ISBN   9781498511087.
  4. ↑ Stein, Harry H. (2014). "Printers and Press Operators: The Oregonian remembered". Oregon Historical Quarterly . 115 (2): 208–223. doi:10.5403/oregonhistq.115.2.0208. JSTOR   10.5403/oregonhistq.115.2.0208.
  5. ↑ "An Argument over County Press Associations". The Washington Newspaper: A Publication Dedicated to the Study and Improvement of Journalism in Washington. Vol. 3. 1917. p. 177.
  6. ↑ "Oregon Exchanges: For the Newspaper Folk of the State of Oregon". 1930.
  7. ↑ "Journalism in the Colleges"  . Fourth Estate. October 27, 1917.
  8. ↑ The University of Oregon, Eugene: Catalog 1919-1920; Announcements 1920-1921. 1920.
  9. ↑ Oregon Papers Lauded, Morning Oregonian, November 24, 1922.
  10. 1 2 Turnbull, George S. (1939). "Preface". History of Oregon Newspapers  . Binfords & Mort.
  11. ↑ Oregon Exchanges/Volume 6/Number 7
  12. ↑ Turnbull, George S. (1939). "Growth of Oregon Newspapers"  . History of Oregon Newspapers  . Binfords & Mort.
  13. ↑ "Editor and Publisher 1929-09-28: Vol 62 Iss 19". Duncan McIntosh. 28 September 1929.
  14. ↑ Turnbull, George Stanley (1965). "Journalists in the Making: A History of the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon". p. 41.
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