In 1936, MacDougall published an editorial that criticized the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He published a reply from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI proceeded to surveil MacDougal for 35 years.[3]
In 1942, MacDougall began teaching at Northwestern University for thirty years through 1971.[1] His works appear below.
Politicianedit
In 1944, MacDougall ran for the Illinois 10th District in the US Congress, was arrested for illegally distributing political literature, and lost the election. In 1948, he ran for US Senate (presumably on the ticket of the Progressive Party, given his 1965 history of the Wallace campaign, Gideon's Army), and lost. In 1970, he ran in the 13th District primary for US Congress on the Democratic ticket and lost.[3][4]
Personal life and deathedit
MacDougal married Genevieve; they had five children,[1] of whom three survived him.[4]
MacDougall was the author of the influential book Interpretative Reporting (1938), which has been widely cited. William David Sloan has commented that "his many books, articles, and speeches helped set the tone and added to the debate surrounding journalism education for a half century."[2]
He authored two skeptical works Hoaxes (1958) and Superstition and the Press (1983), the latter which his family considered his chief work.[4] His book on hoaxes has been described as a classic on the subject. MacDougall defined a hoax as "a deliberately concocted untruth made to masquerade as truth."[8]
Books
The Library of Congress catalog contains the following:
College course in reporting for beginners (1932)[9]
Teachers' manual of exercises, suggestions and bibliographical notations to be used in connection with Interpretative reporting (1938)[10]
"Schools of Journalism Are Being Ruined" (1972)[31]
Referencesedit
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"Curtis D. MacDougall". New York Times. 13 November 1985. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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Sloan, William David (1990). Makers of the Media Mind: Journalism Educators and Their Ideas. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 28, 29-35 (biography), 48, 230. ISBN 0-8058-0698-9.
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"C. MacDougall, Journalism Prof". Chicago Tribune. 12 November 1985. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
^"MacDougall, Curtis Daniel, 1903-1985 : Curtis MacDougall Papers, 1922-1989". The Newberry. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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"Curtis D. MacDougall Scholarship". Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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"Curtis D. MacDougall Tuition Scholarship". Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
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Brunvand, Jan Harold (2012). Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition. ABC-CLIO. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-59884-720-8.
^MacDougall, Curtis D. (1938). Teachers' manual of exercises, suggestions and bibliographical notations to be used in connection with Interpretative reporting. Macmillan.
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Curtis D. MacDougall, ed. (1968). Reporters report reporters. Iowa State University Press.
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MacDougall, Curtis D. (1 June 1935). "Newspaper Hoaxes". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 12 (2): 166–177. doi:10.1177/107769903501200206. S2CID 220591998.
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MacDougall, Curtis D. (28 September 1948). "Letter from Curtis D. MacDougall to W. E. B. Du Bois". Digital Commonwealth.
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MacDougall, Curtis D. (9 March 1972). Schools of Journalism Are Being Ruined(PDF). Pi Delta Epsilon.