Oral History Project: Female Newspaper Food Editors of the 1970s & 1980s

I just received my certificate for completion of the Oral History program at Baylor University.

The most common question I get when I am interviewed about The Food Section is will I write a book about the women who came next. I have felt a bit conflicted because most of those women are still alive and can speak for themselves.

Instead, I plan to conduct oral histories of women who were food editors in the post-women’s pages years of the 1970s & 1980s. I hope to begin this fall.

In addition to my Baylor University class, I am presenting a paper about the oral history project Women in Journalism at the 2015 Oral History Association Conference in Tampa. I am focusing on the women’s page editors in the project.

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