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The North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) was a large newspaper syndicate that flourished between 1922 and 1980. Founded by John Neville Wheeler, NANA employed some of the most noted writing talents of its time, including Grantland Rice, Joseph Alsop, Michael Stern, Lothrop Stoddard, Dorothy Thompson, George Schuyler, Pauline Frederick, Sheilah Graham Westbrook, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald. and Ernest Hemingway (who famously covered the Spanish Civil War for NANA). ==Wheeler era== Wheeler established the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1922 as a union of 50 major newspapers in the United States and Canada. It absorbed the Bell Syndicate, a similar organization he had founded around 1916, although both continued to operate individually under joint ownership. NANA continued to acquire other syndicates over time. Wheeler became general manager in 1930. One of its most famous correspondents was Ernest Hemingway who was sent to Spain in 1937 Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War,〔Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway, ("The Spanish Civil War and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories" )〕 He based one of his best-known novels, ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' on his experiences there. Among its other notable stories was the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, which in 1947 and 1948 researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Edith Ronne, wife of the expedition leader, was a correspondent for the syndicate, posting dispatches from Antarctica for the duration of the expedition. She named a landform there, Cape Wheeler, in honour of her editor. In the 1930s and 1940s, NANA was known for its selections for the College Football All-America Team, using four well-known coaches each year. In 1943, Ira Wolfert won an international Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting for his field reports for NANA during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North American Newspaper Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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