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The New Canaan Library received the papers of Richard Salant
from his wife, Frances, in 1994. This gift contains hundreds
of letters, memos, and other communications from Mr. Salant's
years as President of CBS News (1961-1964, 1966-1979).
From 1994 through the present, the Salant Papers have been
available to visitors to the Library. These documents were
digitized and added, in electronic form, to the New Canaan
Library's Website in June 2001. The subject headings assigned
are those that appeared on many of the folders that the Library
received from the Salant estate while others were added in
1995 by a Library intern who worked diligently to organize
the collection by topic. More work will be done on subject
access in the months ahead.
Content and perspective in this collection make these papers
a unique contribution to the history, ethics, and methods
of news broadcasters in the era of Vietnam and Watergate.
These papers give fresh insight into television news - how
it was gathered and reported in a turbulent period when news
organizations themselves were not just reaching American households
with the day's events but becoming newsworthy in their own
right. It was in this Salant period that the power of television
as a medium of news reporting began to be both appreciated
and resented.
The Library is pleased to offer this collection for students,
researchers and citizens interested in the media. We are very
fortunate to have this opportunity, through the Richard Salant
Papers, to contribute to scholarship in media history and
analysis.
The documents below are in pdf format and require the Adobe
Reader for viewing. Click here to get the latest version of
the software http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
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Aapor
Special
Annenberg
Panel Docudrama (4-4-86)
Annenberg
Panel
Fairness
Doctrine
Fine
Line
Libel
Speeches and Articles
Memos
- In House Correspondence
Misc
Folder
Nixon
vs. Press - Networks
Presidential
Debates
RSS
Lunch
Salant
Folder
Salant General Letters 1
Salant General Letters 2
Salant General Letters 3
Salant General Letters 4
Salant General Letters 5
Salant General Letters 6
Salant Memos
Salant Papers Book 1
Salant Papers Book 2
Salant Papers - Fairness Doctrine - Speeches by Misc. Media
Heads
Salant Papers - Freedom of Speech & Fairness
Salant Papers - Talks During National News Council
Salant - CBS Cutback Sensitive Letters
Salant - Docu Dramas Good & Bad
Salant - Kennedy Assassination
Salant - Letters & Memos 1969-1981
Salant - Letters to Affiliate Heads
Salant - Presidential Debates
Salant - Speeches
Salant - Speeches 1979
Salant - Thesis
Salant - Watergate
Untitled
Vietnam
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