Pioneering Journalist Jean Otto Dies

I recently learned that Milwaukee Journal reporter and editorial writer Jean Otto died. Here is her obituary.

She started in the women’s pages of the Journal in 1968 and four years later, she became the first woman to serve as an editorial writer with The Milwaukee 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.

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

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