American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers

Portrait of founder Louis N. Hammerling, ca.1912

The American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers was founded by Louis Nicholas Hammerling in 1908.^[1] It served as an intermediary between "respectable national advertisers", and the foreign-language newspapers that profited from publishing advertisements.^[2] Frances Kellor^[3] led the effort after Hammerling's patriotism came under question ca.1918.^[2][4][5] Critics included Robert Ezra Park.^[6]

References

1. "Tenth Anniversary of the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, Inc". Printers' Ink. NY: 295 v. June 6, 1918. hdl:2027/mdp.39015016778758.
2. Jim Sleeper (1999), Should American Journalism Make Us Americans?, USA: Harvard University, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
3. Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey, eds. (2000), Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, Routledge, ISBN 9780415920384
4. A Menace to Americanization, New York, N.Y: Narodni List, 1919, OL 24235312M
5. Brewing and Liquor Interests and German Propaganda: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919
6. Robert Ezra Park (1922), The Immigrant Press and its Control, New York: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 762077, OL 14014325M

Further reading

• The American Leader. New York: American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers. v.1 (1912)