Extension of the Jewish Telegraph Agency’s news coverage to provide a broader and deeper treatment of the American Jewish communal scene was announced today by Eleazar Lipsky, president of the JTA. The broadened coverage will be included in existing JTA press services and will be made available to direct JTA subscribers in a supplement. The Community News Reporter is to be included in the JTA Daily News Bulletin each Thursday. The first issue of this supplement will be mailed to subscribers with the Daily News Bulletin of Thursday, March 15.
Mr. Lipsky said that the new supplement would give the JTA staff facilities to handle a large body of important and interesting news dealing with the day-to-day activities of the American Jewish community and the people conducting them. In the past, he noted, much of this information had had to be subordinated, for space reasons, to coverage of immediate and pressing spot news developments at home and abroad. Publication of the Community News Reporter, he pointed out, would provide for this additional news coverage without in any way diminishing the flow and presentation of important world and national news.
“We will use this new supplement,” he said, “to present a fuller and richer news report on the communal activities of the great American Jewish community, on its problems, its-methods of dealing with these problems, the work of its local agencies for the welfare, health, educational and general well-being of its members and on its role within the greater community of which it is a part. We hope to be able to treat those problems and issues which are common to all communities constructively and in depth.”
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