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The Women’s Pages at the Charlotte Observer
I just finished reading the above book about the history of the Charlotte Observer. While there were some references to women’s pages, there was no references to the work of Miami Herald women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney who went to the Observer in the 1950s to improve its women’s section.Here is the explanation from Jurney’s oral history: Jurney: It was while I was at the Miami Herald that Lee Hills asked me to go, on three different occasions, to the Charlotte Observer after Jimmy Knight had bought it. It wasn’t a very good newspaper. In fact, it didn’t take me long after my first trip to Charlotte to realize that…
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The Women’s Pages at the Charlotte Observer
I just finished reading the above book about the history of the Charlotte Observer. While there were some references to women’s pages, there was no references to the work of Miami Herald women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney who went to the Observer in the 1950s to improve its women’s section.Here is the explanation from Jurney’s oral history: Jurney: It was while I was at the Miami Herald that Lee Hills asked me to go, on three different occasions, to the Charlotte Observer after Jimmy Knight had bought it. It wasn’t a very good newspaper. In fact, it didn’t take me long after my first trip to Charlotte to realize that…
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Women Wearing Pants
My paper, “Who’s Wearing the Pants? How The New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women,” has just been published in the current issue of Media Report to Women. The wearing of pants was a controversial topic, symbolizing the concern over the changing role of gender roles in society. For some people, pants were another step toward equality for women. For others pants meant losing femininity – almost to the point of androgyny. After all, “the meaning of clothing is culturally defined.” To learn more about the national conversation, the New York Times coverage over a 25-year period was examined through the newspaper’s database. Each article that came up…
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Women Wearing Pants
My paper, “Who’s Wearing the Pants? How The New York Times Reported the Changing Dress of Women,” has just been published in the current issue of Media Report to Women. The wearing of pants was a controversial topic, symbolizing the concern over the changing role of gender roles in society. For some people, pants were another step toward equality for women. For others pants meant losing femininity – almost to the point of androgyny. After all, “the meaning of clothing is culturally defined.” To learn more about the national conversation, the New York Times coverage over a 25-year period was examined through the newspaper’s database. Each article that came up…
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
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Hints from Heloise and the Honolulu Advertiser
I have been collecting information about Drue Lytle and Pat Hunter who were women’s page journalists at the Honolulu Advertiser. Drue won several Penney-Missouri Awards for top women’s section in the 1960s. Pat won a Penney-Missouri Award for investigative reporting. I recently learned that the housekeeping column “Hints From Heloise” originated in Drue’s section: “Heloise has decided that she wanted to write a column in a newspaper for to help housewives, She marched to the office of the Honolulu Advertiser to see the editor to discuss her idea. She even offered to work for free for 30 days and the editor took a chance—The Readers’ Exchange column began in 1959.…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
