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Jeanne Voltz Article Accepted for Publication
My article about Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz has been accepted for publication. It should run in the Spring 2012 issue of American Journalism. I am working on the final minor revisions right now. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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Miami News’ Billie (Womack) O’Day Images
In going through my files I came across these great images of Billie O’Day, women’s page editor of the Miami News in the 1960s. (Her real last name was Womack but she used the pen name Billie O’Day in both her byline and her professional life at this time.) In the top photo, Billie is in the coat on the far left as she won a Penney-Missouri Award for top women’s page in her circulation size. The second photo is from a Columbia, Missouri hotel room. Billie is giving a thumbs-up and that is Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson nearest the camera. I love the smoke and the…
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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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Beverley Morales Presentation
I will be presenting the paper “Pioneering Journalist Beverley Morales: Redefining Women’s Page Content in 1960s Florida,” at the Florida Conference of Historians next Spring in Lake City, Florida. Beverley Brink Morales (pictured above) was a ground-breaking journalist who spent much of the 1960s in South Florida. It was a significant time for women’s page editors as women’s news was being redefined as a mix of traditional and progressive content. Florida was a significant place for women’s page journalists as they won a majority of Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for women’s pages – throughout the 1960s. Morales won a prize in the first year of the Awards for…
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Bringing Back Home Ec
Last week, the NY Times ran an editorial about reintroducing home ec as a way to fight obesity. Here is a link to the story. As I have written: For too long, women’s pages, which included food, have been looked at as sections that simply reinforced a traditional role for women. This was once how home economics was viewed, too. It was simply a place that reinforced women’s traditional roles. As one home economics scholar wrote, “Home economics has not fared well at the hands of historians. Until recently women’s historians largely dismissed home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen.” In recent years,…
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Debating David Kamp’s Version of Food History
As I re-read David Kamp’s book, The United States of Arugula, I am again surprised by The lack if women’s roles, outside of a handful of names. Like other food historians, he minimizes the role of NY Times food editor Jane Nickerson. He writes of the food editor who followed Nickerson, “Claiborne treated food as a journalistic beat, a daily responsibility to sniff out what was going on in America’s more creative kitchens.” (p. 70) I have many examples that Nickerson was already doing that prior to Claiborne. After all, her column was called, “News of Food.” – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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