One of the four Fs of the women’s pages is furnishings. (Although I have found that at some newspapers, furnishings stories were found in the real estate section.) For decades, the top recognition for furnishing coverage was the Dorothy Dawe Award. A few weeks ago, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award.

I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. I found her obituary last month – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I filled out the paperwork to get her death certificate and it arrived last week. It looks like she died of multiple forms of cancer.

Here is an article about Dorothy based on a talk by Milwaukee Journal women’s page editor Aileen Ryan who I studied a few years ago.

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One of the four Fs of the women’s pages is furnishings. (Although I have found that at some newspapers, furnishings stories were found in the real estate section.) For decades, the top recognition for furnishing coverage was the Dorothy Dawe Award. A few weeks ago, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award.

I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. I found her obituary last month – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I filled out the paperwork to get her death certificate and it arrived last week. It looks like she died of multiple forms of cancer.

Here is an article about Dorothy based on a talk by Milwaukee Journal women’s page editor Aileen Ryan who I studied a few years ago.

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