Claim 125

Roosevelt created the Office of Censorship under Byron Price, a former Associated Press news editor, who wrote a Code of Wartime Practices for newspapers and radio stations.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Roosevelt created the Office of Censorship under Byron Price, a former Associated Press news editor, who wrote a Code of Wartime Practices for newspapers and radio stations.
Field: occurred_on
Value: Office created December 19, 1941
About: incident 1941-us-office-of-censorship-wartime-press-code
Source: Reporting America at War: Chronology, December 18-19 1941
Publisher: PBS / WETA
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current

Quotation from the source

Roosevelt creates the Office of Censorship. Under the direction of Byron Price, former executive news editor of the Associated Press, the office established a Code of Wartime Practices for newspapers and radio stations.