Douglas F. "Doug" Attaway Jr., was president and publisher of the Shreveport Journal from 1957 to 1976. He also was chairman of the board of KSLA-TV from 1966 until its sale to Viacom in 1979. He was a former chairman of the board of Newspaper Production Company and the Attaway Newspaper Group.
Son of Shreveport Journal publisher Douglas F. Attaway Sr. and his wife, the former Bessie Fisher, he graduated from C.E. Byrd High School and held degrees in journalism and business from the University of Missouri. He joined the staff of The Journal in 1934 as an advertising proof runner. He became an ad salesman, assistant bookkeeper and reporter and became managing editor in December 1941, a position he held until his father's death in 1957.
He was a member of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and the original board of the Red River Navigation Association, which successfully lobbied Congress for navigation of the Red River from Alexandria to Shreveport. He was a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, amond numerous affiliations. He was the 1968 Cotillion King of the annual Holiday In Dixie celebration and in 1965 was named "Shreveport's Best Salesman."
He and his wife of 57 years, the former Marion Sailor, are remembered through the Douglas and Marion Attaway Professorships in Civic Culture Centenary College where he was a trustee, and through the Douglas F. and Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Fund.
Son of Shreveport Journal publisher Douglas F. Attaway Sr. and his wife, the former Bessie Fisher, he graduated from C.E. Byrd High School and held degrees in journalism and business from the University of Missouri. He joined the staff of The Journal in 1934 as an advertising proof runner. He became an ad salesman, assistant bookkeeper and reporter and became managing editor in December 1941, a position he held until his father's death in 1957.
He was a member of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and the original board of the Red River Navigation Association, which successfully lobbied Congress for navigation of the Red River from Alexandria to Shreveport. He was a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, amond numerous affiliations. He was the 1968 Cotillion King of the annual Holiday In Dixie celebration and in 1965 was named "Shreveport's Best Salesman."
He and his wife of 57 years, the former Marion Sailor, are remembered through the Douglas and Marion Attaway Professorships in Civic Culture Centenary College where he was a trustee, and through the Douglas F. and Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Fund.
Douglas F. "Doug" Attaway Jr., was president and publisher of the Shreveport Journal from 1957 to 1976. He also was chairman of the board of KSLA-TV from 1966 until its sale to Viacom in 1979. He was a former chairman of the board of Newspaper Production Company and the Attaway Newspaper Group.
Son of Shreveport Journal publisher Douglas F. Attaway Sr. and his wife, the former Bessie Fisher, he graduated from C.E. Byrd High School and held degrees in journalism and business from the University of Missouri. He joined the staff of The Journal in 1934 as an advertising proof runner. He became an ad salesman, assistant bookkeeper and reporter and became managing editor in December 1941, a position he held until his father's death in 1957.
He was a member of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and the original board of the Red River Navigation Association, which successfully lobbied Congress for navigation of the Red River from Alexandria to Shreveport. He was a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, amond numerous affiliations. He was the 1968 Cotillion King of the annual Holiday In Dixie celebration and in 1965 was named "Shreveport's Best Salesman."
He and his wife of 57 years, the former Marion Sailor, are remembered through the Douglas and Marion Attaway Professorships in Civic Culture Centenary College where he was a trustee, and through the Douglas F. and Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Fund.
Son of Shreveport Journal publisher Douglas F. Attaway Sr. and his wife, the former Bessie Fisher, he graduated from C.E. Byrd High School and held degrees in journalism and business from the University of Missouri. He joined the staff of The Journal in 1934 as an advertising proof runner. He became an ad salesman, assistant bookkeeper and reporter and became managing editor in December 1941, a position he held until his father's death in 1957.
He was a member of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and the original board of the Red River Navigation Association, which successfully lobbied Congress for navigation of the Red River from Alexandria to Shreveport. He was a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, amond numerous affiliations. He was the 1968 Cotillion King of the annual Holiday In Dixie celebration and in 1965 was named "Shreveport's Best Salesman."
He and his wife of 57 years, the former Marion Sailor, are remembered through the Douglas and Marion Attaway Professorships in Civic Culture Centenary College where he was a trustee, and through the Douglas F. and Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Fund.
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