This report discusses administrator-newsmedia relations during a crisis. The report attempts to illuminate the ways in which reporters cover a crisis, deal with the newsman's view of what constitutes a crisis, describe relationships of reporters to the administrator in tense moments, and recommend ways the administrator can deal effectively with…

Analysis of the Wisconsin woman suffrage campaign of 1910-1920 suggests that public relations belonged not only to political or business practices, but was equally a process by which the masses achieved their own best interests in nineteenth and early twentieth century social reform movements. Woman suffragists were led by women, and the public…