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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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At the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual meeting in Washington, President J. R. Wiggins urged the press to improve performance and justify reader trust to secure public support against official secrecy, noting some gains in fighting news suppression.
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WASHINGTON. (AP) - The president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors told the nation's press Thursday it should improve its own performance if it expects public support in breaking official secrecy barriers.
In a message at the opening of the society's annual meeting here, J. R. Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington Post, reported some gains in ASNE's long battle against news suppression.
But he called on the society to take measures to strengthen itself as an organization worthy to represent "a profession that is in many ways, the most important in the country." He urged greater efforts by newspapers, individually and as an industry, to justify the faith and confidence of their readers.
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The president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, J. R. Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington Post, delivered a message at the opening of the society's annual meeting, reporting gains in the battle against news suppression but urging the society to strengthen itself and newspapers to justify reader confidence to gain public support in breaking official secrecy barriers.