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Timeline of Dorothy Jurney’s newspaper career
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Milwaukee Press Club article
Our article “Way Past Deadline: The Women’s Fight to Integrate the Milwaukee Press Club,” was published this week by the Wisconsin Magazine of History. In the 1960s, women journalists fought for equal opportunities and recognition within their profession. One such fight was to obtain membership to the oldest continuously run press club in the country. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the Milwaukee Press Club finally allowed women to become members. To tell the story, we went through the papers of Milwaukee Press Club in the Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Ruthe Deskin submission
My article about Ruthe Deskin, longtime Las Vegas journalist, is now under review at a historical journal. Ruthe made a significant difference in her city and provided a stabilizing voice to the maverick publisher Hank Greenspun. (Ruthe is pictured here with Hank.) I went through Ruthe’s papers at UNLV and viewed the videotaped oral history that her family recorded. Here is my earlier post about my research on Ruthe.
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Beverley Brink Morales Badhorse
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Kathryn Robinette
Kathryn Robinette won Penney-Missouri Awards for her women’s section of the Palm Beach Post in 1966 and 1968. She earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism in 1960 in Georgia. She wrote: “I typed weddings and all that tiresome stuff but managed to fall in love with the work anyway. I also formed firm opinions about what type of story best served the reader’s interest – having been one for so long.” She married and had children. While she covered the many galas of Palm Beach, she covered social issues, too. Her 1968 full-page Mother’s Day…
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My book review
My review of the book The American Journalist in the 21st Century was recently published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. While there are more women in journalism, there are far too few women in positions of management – and this was before Ann Marie Lapinski announced she was leaving the Chicago Tribune.
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