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Beverley Brink Morales Badhorse
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Kathryn Robinette
Kathryn Robinette won Penney-Missouri Awards for her women’s section of the Palm Beach Post in 1966 and 1968. She earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism in 1960 in Georgia. She wrote: “I typed weddings and all that tiresome stuff but managed to fall in love with the work anyway. I also formed firm opinions about what type of story best served the reader’s interest – having been one for so long.” She married and had children. While she covered the many galas of Palm Beach, she covered social issues, too. Her 1968 full-page Mother’s Day…
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My book review
My review of the book The American Journalist in the 21st Century was recently published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. While there are more women in journalism, there are far too few women in positions of management – and this was before Ann Marie Lapinski announced she was leaving the Chicago Tribune.
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Texas archive travel grant
I just learned that I have received a William and Madeline Smith Research Travel Award, for 2008-2009. I will use the funds to go through the papers of Texan political columnist Molly Ivins at the University of Texas at Austin. Yea!
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AJHA program
The Fall 2008 American Journalism Historians Association ‘s Convention program is out with lots of great papers. It will be held in Seattle, Washington in October.
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Chicago Tribune Tribute to Koky Dishon
