Edwin J. Butterworth, Jr.
From College of Fine Arts and Communications
Ed Butterworth spent thirteen years working in Utah journalism before coming to BYU. He had served as the associate news editor of the Deseret News and as an employee of the former Salt Lake Telegram and the Salt Lake Tribune.
Butterworth served as the department chair for the Journalism Department from 1949-1950. During that time Butterworth oversaw the hire of the first full-time sports information director at BYU.
In 1954 Butterworth received the first master's degree in journalism at BYU. (Pratte, 20)
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References
- Somewhere Between Mount Olympus and Mount Everest, Paul Alfred Pratte, 2003.
