Harold L. Nelson Award Recipients
| 1981 | Bruce H. Westley |
 Bruce
Westley, a University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty member from 1946
to 1968, received the first Harold L. Nelson award. He is credited
with helping establish the graduate program at the UW-Madison journalism
school. Westley retired in 1981 from the University of Kentucky, where
he served after leaving UW-Madison. He was chairman of the journalism
department at Kentucky, 1969-1975. Westley was editor of Journalism
Monographs, a journal supported by the Association for Education in
Journalism (AEJ) and was an associate editor of Journalism Quarterly
for 10 years. He was president of AEJ, 1973-1974. He was co-author
of “A Conceptual Model for Communications Research,” a
widely-reprinted highly influential article published in 1957, and
is co-editor of Research Methods in Mass Communications. Westley earned
his master’s degree from Columbia University in 1941 and did
further graduate work at the University of Michigan from 1951 to 1954.
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