Dorothy Jurney (also shown with Marie Anderson)

Dorothy Jurney was known as the godmother of the transformation of the women’s pages in the nation’s newspapers. Jean Gaddy Wilson, a scholar of journalism, has said that Dorothy Jurney “single-handedly changed American newspapers” by changing the women’s pages. She was included in the Washington Press Club Foundation’s oral history project “Women in Journalism.”

My article about Dorothy is being revised for a resubmission to a nation journalism history journal. Much of my information for the article came from her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri.

Dorothy was inducted in to the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors’ Hall of Fame.

She is also in the Medill Hall of Achievement.