I am working on a paper about women as newspaper “firsts” – the first female managing editors and publishers. In the 1970s and 1980s, several women who went into management were deemed “firsts.” I am looking to see how they went from the women’s papers into management. My article about one of those women, Carol Sutton, will come out this month. She went from the women’s editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal to the first female managing editor of that newspaper – this promotion earned her nationwide attention.

I am beginning to look at the career of Mary Anne Dolan, pictured above. She became the first female managing editor of the L.A. Herald-Examiner in the 1980s.

She was mentored by editor Jim Bellows – another journalist I am researching. They are pictured above.

Here is an amazing piece she wrote for the New York Times.

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I am working on a paper about women as newspaper “firsts” – the first female managing editors and publishers. In the 1970s and 1980s, several women who went into management were deemed “firsts.” I am looking to see how they went from the women’s papers into management. My article about one of those women, Carol Sutton, will come out this month. She went from the women’s editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal to the first female managing editor of that newspaper – this promotion earned her nationwide attention.

I am beginning to look at the career of Mary Anne Dolan, pictured above. She became the first female managing editor of the L.A. Herald-Examiner in the 1980s.

She was mentored by editor Jim Bellows – another journalist I am researching. They are pictured above.

Here is an amazing piece she wrote for the New York Times.

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