Lawrence Laurent has been the television-radio editor and columnist for the Washington Post since 1953 and is also chairman of the editorial board of Television Quarterly. He holds the rank of Professorial Lecturer at the American University in Washington, D.C., teaching programming in both radio and television. For more than a decade he has covered virtually every investigation or hearing on communications in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission. The Washington Newspaper Guide awarded him its Front Page Award for his interpretative coverage of the 1963 hearings on audience ratings held before the House Special Subcommittee on Investigations. Besides his daily columns, Mr. Laurent has published contributions to Television's Impact on American Culture and to The Eighth Art, published in 1956 and 1962 respectively, and has edited Equal Time, a collection of speeches by former Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow, published in 1964.
(The above information is from the jacket of Equal Time.)
