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Sweeney elected second vice president of the American Journalism Historians Assn. By
Ted Pease
USU MEDIA HISTORIAN ELECTED:USU Journalism Associate Professor Michael S. Sweeney was elected last week as 2nd vice president of the American Journalism History Association, putting him on track to become president of the group in 2004. Sweeney, shown here delivering a keynote address on censorship in Billing, MT, last year, is among the country's leading authorities on the press in wartime. His National Geographic book on wartime journalism will be released later this month. (Billings (MT) Gazette photo) LOGAN -- Kudos to Mike Sweeney, who was elected second vice president of the American Journalism Historians Assn. at the group's annual national conference in Nashville last week. The election puts Sweeney on track to become president of AJHA in October 2004. Sweeney, an associate professor of journalism, has taught at USU since 1996. He is the author of two books on the press and censorship--a 2001 work on U.S. press censorship during World War II, and a comprehensive history of the press during wartime, which will be released by the National Geographic Society later this month. The American Journalism Historians Assn. is the country's leading organization of media historians, professors and scholars.
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