Kay Mills Has Died
I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of pioneering journalist and author Kay Mills.
She wrote the most significant book about women in journalism. It’s called A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages. It was my first knowledge of women’s pages and changed the course of my research agenda.
According to her obit: “Mills was driven to write “A Place in the News” because, she told the New York Times some years ago, “I was trying to sort out why this profession I cared so much about really didn’t return the favor for women — and I might add, minorities — for such a long time.” She believed that broadening newspaper staffs beyond “the same old interchangeable races running America’s newsrooms” would improve coverage.”
We exchanged a few emails. I am glad I got to tell her how much her work meant to me.
Kay Mills Has Died
I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of pioneering journalist and author Kay Mills.
She wrote the most significant book about women in journalism. It’s called A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages. It was my first knowledge of women’s pages and changed the course of my research agenda.
According to her obit: “Mills was driven to write “A Place in the News” because, she told the New York Times some years ago, “I was trying to sort out why this profession I cared so much about really didn’t return the favor for women — and I might add, minorities — for such a long time.” She believed that broadening newspaper staffs beyond “the same old interchangeable races running America’s newsrooms” would improve coverage.”
We exchanged a few emails. I am glad I got to tell her how much her work meant to me.
