Yesterday I learned about another significant women’s page editor. Below is part of her obituary:
“Evelyn Larson Hudson, a former South Bend Tribune editor and columnist, died Saturday in Naples, Fla.

Then known as Evelyn Larson, she served on the Tribune’s staff for 25 years, until she retired in 1989.

Hudson joined The Tribune in 1964 as a writer for the society pages, which focused on weddings, social events and other news deemed primarily of interest to homemakers. After becoming the department editor in 1970, she led the change to the Living Today section, which included lengthy articles about lifestyle issues and topics of interest to working women.”

This was the part that I found especially interesting: “”She had the highest journalistic standards,” Tribune reporter Becky Emmons said. Emmons was hired by Hudson as a reporter in 1973, and later served as the department’s assistant editor.

“She was really doing cutting edge things during that era,” Emmons said, recalling the department’s expansion to cover social, health and cultural issues. Emmons recalled being assigned to do a series on the topic of sexual assault in the 1970s, which wasn’t a typical topic for women’s pages in those days.”

There a growing trend of these women’s page editors who were all doing “cutting-edge things” that leads me to believe that the generalizations that the sections were only fluff were clearly wrong. I am collecting these examples – especially from smaller newspapers.

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Yesterday I learned about another significant women’s page editor. Below is part of her obituary:
“Evelyn Larson Hudson, a former South Bend Tribune editor and columnist, died Saturday in Naples, Fla.

Then known as Evelyn Larson, she served on the Tribune’s staff for 25 years, until she retired in 1989.

Hudson joined The Tribune in 1964 as a writer for the society pages, which focused on weddings, social events and other news deemed primarily of interest to homemakers. After becoming the department editor in 1970, she led the change to the Living Today section, which included lengthy articles about lifestyle issues and topics of interest to working women.”

This was the part that I found especially interesting: “”She had the highest journalistic standards,” Tribune reporter Becky Emmons said. Emmons was hired by Hudson as a reporter in 1973, and later served as the department’s assistant editor.

“She was really doing cutting edge things during that era,” Emmons said, recalling the department’s expansion to cover social, health and cultural issues. Emmons recalled being assigned to do a series on the topic of sexual assault in the 1970s, which wasn’t a typical topic for women’s pages in those days.”

There a growing trend of these women’s page editors who were all doing “cutting-edge things” that leads me to believe that the generalizations that the sections were only fluff were clearly wrong. I am collecting these examples – especially from smaller newspapers.

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