Background
Harley, William Gardner was born on October 9, 1911 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joel Alva and Elizabeth (Gardner) Harley.
(This is William G. Harley's personal account of the proce...)
This is William G. Harley's personal account of the process that produced the MacBride Commission reportóUNESCO's International Commission for Study of Communication Problems. Harley was present at all Commission meetings; he had the complete collection of reports he had sent back to the U.S. State Department. Furthermore, he had a file of relevant personal notes, memos, and letters, a comprehensive collection unique in all the world. The author's account not only tells how international agencies function, for better or worse, but it also sketches the personalities involved in negotiating international communication problems. Harley's reports of the meetings are fascinating exercises in group dynamics which capture the substance and spirit of the debates. The sixteen experts appointed in 1977 by UNESCO Director-General, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, were responsible for preparing a report that would remedy issues such as Third World hopes for a new world information order and the flow of international information. It was a conscientious effort to reach a consensus in the study of these relations between and within nations and Harley's Creative Compromise affords the reader insights into the complexity of modern communications and their interrelationships with the economic, cultural, and social aspects of our interdependent world.
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Harley, William Gardner was born on October 9, 1911 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Joel Alva and Elizabeth (Gardner) Harley.
Bachelor of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1935; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1940; honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
Instructor department radio-television education and staff, Station WHA, University of Wisconsin, 1936-1942;
assistant professor, Station WHA, University of Wisconsin, 1942-1953;
associate professor, Station WHA, University of Wisconsin, 1953-1957;
professor, Station WHA, University of Wisconsin, 1957-1960;
chief announcer, Wisconsin Broadcasting System, 1935-1940;
program director, Wisconsin Broadcasting System, 1940-1944;
acting director, Wisconsin Broadcasting System, 1944-1946;
program coordinator, Ford-National Association Ednl. Broadcasters Adult Education Radio Project, 1950-1952;
manager, Station WHA-television, 1954-1960;
president, National Association Ednl. Broadcasters, Washington, 1960-1975;
member of national industry advising committee, Federal Communication Commission, 1960-1972;
delegate, International Conference on Schools Broadcastings, Rome, 1961;
delegate, International Conference on Schools Broadcastings, Tokyo, 1964;
delegate, International Conference on Schools Broadcastings, Paris, 1967;
board directors, United States-Japan television Program Exchange Center, 1964-1968;
director, Joint Council Ednl.
Telecommunications, 1960-1975;
president, Joint Council Ednl. Telecommunications, 1973-1975;
president, Ednl. Media Council, 1966-1968;
chairman screening committee for radio-television,, Fulbright Scholarships, 1966-1972;
member, United States National Commission United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1962-1968, 70-76;
chairman, Mass Communications Committee, 1967-1968, 70-76;
delegate, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Conference Use Space Broadcasting, Paris, 1971;
delegate, International Broadcasting Unions Conference Communications Satellites, 1972;
member, United States National Commission team, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1973;
member, United States delegate United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization General Conference, 1974, 76, 78, 80;
United States representative, Council of International Program for Communications Development, 1981, 82, 83.
Member Peabody Awards Board, 1976-1985, chairman, 1981-1985. Consultant Rothschild Foundation, Agency for International Development, United States Information Agency, Committee for Economics Development, United States Public Health Service. Consultant unites states department State, public affairs officer, 1977-1987.
(This is William G. Harley's personal account of the proce...)
Board of directors Americans for Universality of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, since 1989. Member Cosmos Club, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, Beta Theta Pi.
Married Jewell Bunnell, June 15, 1940. Children: Cynthia Harley Foster, Linda Harley Cunningham, Gratia, Gail (deceased).