Journalists & Journalism

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Bennett (Milly) papers, 1897-1960: Bennett was an American journalist in China, the Soviet Union, and Spain. Memoirs, news dispatches, other writings, correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to political conditions in China, social conditions in the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, and journalism in the United States.

Chang (Iris) 張純如 papers, 1877-2007: Chang was an American journalist and author. Contains correspondence, writings, recordings and transcripts of interviews, photocopies of government records and other documents, printed matter, audiovisual material, and memorabilia relating to the history of Chinese in the United States, and to aspects of World War II. Includes research material for the books by Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm (New York, 1995), The Rape of Nanking (New York, 1997), and The Chinese in America (New York, 2003), and for an uncompleted work on conditions of American soldiers captured by Japanese forces and Japanese atrocities against American prisoners of war.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast records, 1917-2014: American radio broadcasting organization. Includes sound recordings of broadcasts, as well as documents used for creating broadcasts including scripts, correspondence, and memoranda relating to broadcasts by Radio Free Europe to audiences in Eastern Europe and to broadcasts by Radio Liberty to audiences in the Soviet Union.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records, 1945-2012: Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial and legal records, technical specifications, opinion survey data, serial issues, other publications, and microfilm relating to operations of Radio Free Europe in broadcasting to audiences in Eastern Europe and of Radio Liberty in broadcasting to audiences in the Soviet Union, as well as non-broadcast operations of RFE/RL's predecessor, the Free Europe Committee, Inc.

Von Wiegand (Karl H.) papers, 1907-2009: Von Wiegand was a Hearst newspaper foreign correspondent, 1917–61. Contains correspondence, dispatches, writings and manuscripts, diaries, photographs, clippings, and printed matter relating to European diplomacy and German politics between the world wars, the Sino-Japanese War, the European theater in World War II, the Cold War, post-war Middle East, the Italo-Ethiopian War, and U.S. foreign policy.

Wales (Nym) papers, 1931-1998: Wales was an American journalist in China. Contains personal and collected correspondence, speeches and writings, news dispatches, interviews, reports, memoranda, organizational records, and photographs relating to the Chinese communists; the industrial cooperative movement, student movement, and labor movement in China; the Sian incident, 1936; the Sino-Japanese Conflict; and Chinese art and literature.