Edwin O. Haroldsen

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Edwin Haroldsen was one of the best-known LDS journalists of the sixties. During his professional career he worked as a regional editor for the U.S. News and World Report, United Press, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the Deseret News. Due to Haroldsen’s extensive background, Dean Lorin Wheelwright approached Haroldsen and invited him to come to BYU. Haroldsen accepted.

In 1972 he was named chair of the department. Haroldsen continued the work started by other chairs to help turn the Daily Universe into a laboratory newspaper. He also focused on creating a better relationship between the department chair and the broadcasters.

Haroldsen approved budget increases for broadcast and actually began to study broadcast so that he could be a more effective teacher (Pratte, 26).

References

• Somewhere Between Mount Olympus and Mount Everest, Paul Alfred Pratte, 2003.