Greenbelt Cooperator
What was the name of Greenbelt News Review from Nov 1937 to Jul 1954?
Greenbelt News Review The Greenbelt News Review is a weekly newspaper that was established in 1937 as a volunteer cooperative shortly after settlement of Greenbelt , Maryland , and was originally named the Greenbelt Cooperator until its name was changed in 1954 . It has been published without interruption every week since its founding , and is distributed free by a network of carriers to all city residents . The News Review was always intended to be a newspaper created by and for the citizens of Greenbelt ; more than a voice in the town , it was meant to be the voice of Greenbelt as a whole . Since its early days , many of the prominent editors and newspaper staff have been women : Mary Lou Williamson held the job of editor for the longest , over twenty-five years , and frequently shared the role with Dorothy Sucher throughout the 1960s as a result of both of them having babies . Other female staffers include Virginia Beauchamp , editor in 1962 ; Mary Granofsky , editor from 1967 to 1972 ; Barbara Likowski , editor during parts of 1989 and 1990 ; and Elaine Skolnik , who began working at the paper in 1954 and served as editor from 1977 to 1986 . Harry Zubkoff was also a prominent editor , holding the position four times throughout the 1950s and 1960s and impressing other staffers with his firebrand opinions . 1970 Supreme Court libel case . In 1965 , an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as blackmail the actions of Charles S . Bresler , a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates . Bresler filed suit in 1966 , claiming that he had become the most hated man in Greenbelt . Local volunteers formed a Freedom of the Press committee and went door to door to raise money for the papers legal defense . Bresler received a $17,500 libel judgment from the Prince Georges County Circuit Court , which was upheld by the Maryland Court of Appeals in 1969 . In 1970 , the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously in favor of the News Review and overturned the lower courts judgments . The Supreme Court held that as a matter of constitutional law , the word blackmail in these circumstances was not slander when spoken , and not libel when reported in the Greenbelt News Review . External links . - The Greenbelt News Reviews website - The Greenbelt News Reviews searchable Archives - Greenbelt Archive Project - The Greenbelt News Reviews Greenbelt Photo Gallery - Defending Utopia : The Greenbelt News Review at 80 , documentary film , by Susan Gervasi , at Vimeo - Trailer for the documentary Defending Utopia : The Greenbelt News Review at 80 , by Susan Gervasi , at Vimeo - Greenbelt News Reviews 80th Anniversary Celebration PSA , by Greenbelt Access Television , at YouTube - The Cooperator : An Unofficial History of the Greenbelt News Review , by Heather Elizabeth Peterson