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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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Henrietta Poynter and the St. Petersburg Times/Poynter Institute
On Thursday, we are traveling to St. Petersburg for a three-day workshop at Poynter. It is named for St. Petersburg Times Publisher Nelson Poynter – although I always think that it should also be named for his second wife, Henrietta, who wrote editorials for the newspaper with her husband. Together, they created Congressional Quarterly. She had an impressive background with a 1922 journalism degree from Columbia University and then an editor for Vogue and Vanity Fair before marrying Nelson. She was the first woman to serve on the American Committee of the International Press Institute. A friend described her as “an earthy highbrow … the most unboring person I ever…
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Helen Wells and the Miami Herald
In my continued work on the women’s pages of the Miami Herald, I am looking into the career of Society Writer Helen Wells. The photo above is from her 1969 retirement party held at Marie Anderson’s house. A Google News search revealed that she was also a longtime society editor at the Miami News. The above 1952 clip noted that she did club work in Washington D.C. prior to coming to Miami. It also noted that she served as a Gray Lady for the Red Cross during World War II. Here is an interesting online exhibit about the Gray Ladies. Wells died of a fire in her home in Coral…
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Women’s Page Editors and Dogs
We just adopted a five-year-old puggle (a mix of a pug and a beattle) named Pugsley. The video above is our son Curtis meeting his new dog. Several women’s pages editors had dogs. Marjorie Paxson who was a women’s Paged editor in Houston, Miami and St. Petersburg, always had a dog. When she was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation’s Women in Journalism oral history, she had a dog named Typo. When she became a publisher in Muskogee, Paxson became known in the community for bringing her miniature dachshund, Tiger, to work. She said, “He was a small dog and so I thought he needed a name that would…
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Roberta Applegate and the Miami Herald
Today I am going through some papers of Roberta Applegate that are house in the National Women and Media Collection. I have examined Roberta’s work as a women’s page journalist in Michigan but have not looked as closely at her work at the Miami Herald. She was the club editor for the women’s pages during the 1960s. This was at a time when there hundreds of women’s clubs in Miami. She worked for legendary women’s editor Marie Anderson. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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Roberta Applegate and the Miami Herald
Today I am going through some papers of Roberta Applegate that are house in the National Women and Media Collection. I have examined Roberta’s work as a women’s page journalist in Michigan but have not looked as closely at her work at the Miami Herald. She was the club editor for the women’s pages during the 1960s. This was at a time when there hundreds of women’s clubs in Miami. She worked for legendary women’s editor Marie Anderson. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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