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Brigham Young University. News Bureau

 Organization

Biography

The Brigham Young University News Bureau was established around 1952, and was responsible for overseeing university news publications. In 1978 Press Relations was renamed Public Communications. Directors for the News Bureau included Edwin J. Butterworth (1952-1978).

Press Relations’ main function was to serve the university in dispersing school news to the outside world. It also prepares news releases and dissemination of the same to press, radio, television, magazine, and wire services. Within it there were four main divisions: news operations, information service, publications, and advertising. The news bureau was responsible for publishing president ‘s letter to the parents, special editions of the Daily Universe, and BYU Today, the alumni magazine.

The director of News Bureau reported to the director of the Division of Public Relations until 1964, after which they reported to the director of University Relations.

Later units include Brigham Young University Public Communications Department(1978-1997) and University Communications (1997-).

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

University Communications files on controversial topics, 1971-2005

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 5395 Series 4 Sub-Series 11
Scope and Contents note Contains newspaper clippings, news releases and photographs concerning various controversies from 1979 to 1997. Controversies include the film "Bless the Beasts," discrimination of gender or race, political cartoons, Mark Hofmann forgeries and bombing, the Sunstone Symposium, Gilmore Murders, Gregoty Watergate, Title IX athletes, the dress code, women in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), University of Utah shanties, swine flu shots, Provo city power, protests, Mountain Bell, PADD,...
Dates: 1971-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / UA 5395, University Communications records / University Communications subject files

University Communications news clippings and reports, 1969-2009

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 5395 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents note Contains articles, newspaper clippings, news releases, annual reports, speeches, distribution, and public communication releases from campus and local publications, and original stories, distribution lists, and distributed copies of Brigham Young University news publications. Also includes news releases, newspaper clippings, magazines, and articles from various national newspapers, and broadcast media relations concerning U.S. News World Report Surveys for September 11, 2001, and The Church...
Dates: 1969-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / UA 5395, University Communications records / University Communications news releases

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