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David M. Davis papers

1956-1980.

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/9217

David M. Davis (1926 -2007) had a prominent career in educational and public broadcasting, ranging from directing and producing college-level telecourses at WGBH and working for the Ford Foundation's Office of Public Broadcasting to creating the acclaimed programming series American Playhouse and POV. The collection documents his work at the Ford Foundation from 1968-1979. From 1967 to 1968, Davis was the Director of Programming Instruction at the Television Trust in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 1968, he returned to the United States to work for Ford Foundation's Office of Public Broadcasting as a Television Program Coordinator until February 1969. At that time, he became program officer until September 1969. From October 1969 until December 1974, Davis served as officer in charge. He worked under Fred Friendly until September 1972; Davis retained his position as the Office of Public Broadcasting became the Office of Communications in 1974 due to increased federal support for public broadcasting resulting in the need to refocus on other areas of communications including policy issues, media impact, journalism, and news and the law. Davis left the Ford Foundation in 1979 to work as a consultant for the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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