The wonderful folks at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri just posted these images of Jo Werne. Jo, who died last week, was a longtime reporter at the Miami Herald. She spent many of those years in the women’s pages.

I was sad to learn of her death so I wanted to share these images in celebration of her career.

The great women journalists of south Florida are so intertwined – I find connections on a regular basis. Late summer, I found a note from Jo to Helen Muir (a Miami journalist and library advocate) in Helen’s papers at the University of Miami. The September 29, 1975 note on Herald letterhead begins, “Helen, luv.” Boca Raton News reporter and editor Sandra Wesley was also a good friend of Jo’s.

These images of Jo are from her 1972 Penney-Missouri Award for fashion writing. (The photos can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards.) In later years, Jo focused on writing about furnishings.

I plan to explore her work on furnishings – one of the four Fs of the women’s pages – in the upcoming months.

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The wonderful folks at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri just posted these images of Jo Werne. Jo, who died last week, was a longtime reporter at the Miami Herald. She spent many of those years in the women’s pages.

I was sad to learn of her death so I wanted to share these images in celebration of her career.

The great women journalists of south Florida are so intertwined – I find connections on a regular basis. Late summer, I found a note from Jo to Helen Muir (a Miami journalist and library advocate) in Helen’s papers at the University of Miami. The September 29, 1975 note on Herald letterhead begins, “Helen, luv.” Boca Raton News reporter and editor Sandra Wesley was also a good friend of Jo’s.

These images of Jo are from her 1972 Penney-Missouri Award for fashion writing. (The photos can be found in the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards.) In later years, Jo focused on writing about furnishings.

I plan to explore her work on furnishings – one of the four Fs of the women’s pages – in the upcoming months.

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