Journalist Dorothy Townsend Dies
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When journalist Dorothy Townsend died recently, she was lauded for being the only woman from the Los Angeles Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for coverage of the Watts riots – pictured above. She was also lauded for, in the words of the obituary writer for, “insisting on being reassigned from “the women’s pages” in early 1964.” This is the consistent narrative – women’s pages were a place to escape from – a part of the newspaper with little value.The truth was much more complex. Dorothy would have known Maggie Savoy who I wrote about a few years ago.
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