St. Pete Beach & Dorothy Jurney’s brother

We are back from our Poynter trip and our stay on St. Pete Beach. Legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney’s brother, Dick Misener, was the mayor of St. Pete Beach in the 1970s. We also drove over the bridge named in his honor.

While at Poynter, I read portions of a book about newspaper editor Eugene Patterson. Above is a letter from Patterson to Jurney. It can be found in her papers in the National Women and Media Collection. My article about her was published last summer in Journalism History.

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