Fredrick Siebert received his A.B. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1923 and his J.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1929. From 1930 to 1939 Mr. Siebert taught at the University of Illinois; in 1940-1941 he taught at Northwestern University. However, in 1941 he returned to the University of Illinois and served as director of the School of Journalism and Communications until his retirement, about 1958. Shortly thereafter Mr. Siebert accepted the position of dean of the College of Communication Arts at Michigan State University.
The relationship between government and the press and wartime communications are topics in which F.S. Siebert has displayed special interest, and he is the author of: Rights and Privileges of the Press, Freedom of the Press in England, and Four Theories of the Press, the last of which was a prize-winning book in 1956.
