Kay Mills Tribute
Here is my tribute to Kay Mills that is posted on the Ms blog:
“For many journalism historians like myself, Kay Mills’ first book, A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages, modeled how to, finally, write women into the story of journalism. And she did it in a way that translated so well–she began each chapter with a personal story about discrimination endured by a female journalist, starting with her own story of Newsweek’s Chicago bureau chief declining to hire her in 1966. She recalled him saying:I need someone I can send anywhere, like to riots. And besides, what would you do if someone you were covering ducked into the men’s room?”
Kay Mills Tribute
Here is my tribute to Kay Mills that is posted on the Ms blog:
“For many journalism historians like myself, Kay Mills’ first book, A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Pages, modeled how to, finally, write women into the story of journalism. And she did it in a way that translated so well–she began each chapter with a personal story about discrimination endured by a female journalist, starting with her own story of Newsweek’s Chicago bureau chief declining to hire her in 1966. She recalled him saying:I need someone I can send anywhere, like to riots. And besides, what would you do if someone you were covering ducked into the men’s room?”
