Women’s History Month: Jean Otto

Day 20 of Women’s History Month and women’s page journalists features Jean Otto who died rather recently. Here is a link to her obituary.

She started in the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal in 1968 and four years later, she became the first woman to serve as an editorial writer with the Journal. And one of the few women in that position in the country. She was later named editor of the newspaper’s expanding Op-Ed page.

In 1979, she became the first female president of the Society for Professional Journalists. It was an organization that had only allowed women to be members a decade before.

She wrote a book about her life: First Love: Memoirs of a First Amendment Freedom Fighter.

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