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<\/a>San Antonio Light, Texas, Monday, January 5, 1970\nMiss Bassett Joins Hearst Staff
\nThe Light\u2019s Washington Bureau<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WASHINGTON \u2013 Grace Bassett, a prize-winning Washington newspaperwoman and consultant, today joined the staff of the Hearst newspapers\u2019 Washington Bureau, where she will specialize in articles on urban problems.<\/p>\n
From 1952 to 1956, Miss Bassett was a staff write on The Washington Post and for the 10 succeeding years, she covered congress for The Washington Star with emphasis on urban legislation.<\/p>\n
In 1960, she was cited by the American Political Science Association for \u201cexcellence in political reporting\u201d as a result of her coverage of the campaign to give Washington residents the right to vote for president and vice-president.<\/p>\n
On the Star, she worked for five months on a reporting team that produced a Pulitzer Prize winning series on metropolitan problems. In 1955, she won the first and grand prizes of The Washington newspaper Guild for a school integration series appearing in The Post.<\/p>\n
A frequent guest on television panels discussing urban issues, Miss Bassett also conducted her own weekly half-hour interview show, \u201cIn Person,\u201d on Washington radio station WGMS in 1964 and 1965.<\/p>\n
During the 1966-67 academic year, Miss Bassett studied politics, sociology and economics at Columbia University on a Russell Sage Foundation Grant. Following that, she became a political and urban consultant with such clients as the Urban Institute, RCA, Newsweek, The Urban Coalition and the Sage Foundation.<\/p>\n
In 1968, Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy hired Miss Bassett as an assistant campaign manager in the presidential primaries. In this capacity, she wrote position papers, worked with adult volunteers, supervised the Washington headquarters and scheduled his appearances in New England.<\/p>\n
Miss Bassett is a native of Spokane, Wash., and a descendant of transplanted New Englanders. Both her grandfathers were Yale men, one of them, John D. Bassett, a Republican, served as a Washington state senator. She took her bachelor of arts degree in political science at Whitman College, a master\u2019s in journalism at Columbia and did post-degree study, mainly in languages, at the University of Paris and The University of Frankfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mary Grace Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of Connecticut as follows: John Bassett and wife Margery Robert Bassett and wife Mary Robert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth Riggs Samuel Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Deborah Bennett Benjamin Bassett … Continue reading