1947

The American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors started in 1947 at the American Press Institute (API), then located at Columbia University. Seventeen Sunday editors (all men) at newspapers ranging from the Williamsport Grit to The New York Times had just finished attending a two-and-a-half-week API seminar, and they met up at the end of it to discuss their specific issues and challenges. That meeting was so successful that they agreed to meet again at API a year later — and an annual tradition was born.