Phillip H. Ault :::
Phillip H. Ault
Graduated in 1931
Inducted in 1995
Phillip H. Ault, a 1931 graduate, is a professional communicator. Newspaper editor and
manager, foreign correspondent, author of books and magazine articles, college instructor in mass
communications, radio commentator and television panel host Ault has had a communications career of
more than 50 years. He started as a reporter for the LaGrange Citizen following graduation from
DePauw University in 1935. In 1938 he began working for United Press in Chicago and New York.
Transferred to the foreign desk in 1940, he was sent to Iceland and travelled in the first
convoy to be escorted by American warships. During World War II he worked as a correspondent in
England and North Africa, then was made manager of the London bureau of United Press. In 1948, he
helped establish the Los Angeles Mirror-News as its editorial director. Ault became vice president
of the Associated Desert News-papers of California in 1958, and later he worked as associate editor
of the South Bend, Indiana Tribune, from which he retired in 1979. He is author or co-author of 18
books, including six college textbooks. The twelfth edition of his co-authored college textbook
Introduction to Mass Communications is in production.