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Women Journalists’ Class-Action Lawsuits
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Florida Humanities Council
I’ve just been added to the Directory of Humanities Professionals of the Florida Humanities Council. I hope to be active with this organization in the future and to tell the stories of Florida women’s page editors.
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Revising Dorothy Jurney article
I am in the midst of revising my article on Dorothy Jurney for a journalism history journal. She was known as the “Godmother” of women’s page editors. Here she is pictured (standing) with a young Al Neuharth. The photo is part of the National Women and Media Collection at the University of Missouri. A timeline of her journalism career is noted in the previous post.
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Timeline of Dorothy Jurney’s newspaper career
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Milwaukee Press Club article
Our article “Way Past Deadline: The Women’s Fight to Integrate the Milwaukee Press Club,” was published this week by the Wisconsin Magazine of History. In the 1960s, women journalists fought for equal opportunities and recognition within their profession. One such fight was to obtain membership to the oldest continuously run press club in the country. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the Milwaukee Press Club finally allowed women to become members. To tell the story, we went through the papers of Milwaukee Press Club in the Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Ruthe Deskin submission
My article about Ruthe Deskin, longtime Las Vegas journalist, is now under review at a historical journal. Ruthe made a significant difference in her city and provided a stabilizing voice to the maverick publisher Hank Greenspun. (Ruthe is pictured here with Hank.) I went through Ruthe’s papers at UNLV and viewed the videotaped oral history that her family recorded. Here is my earlier post about my research on Ruthe.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
