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Anne Rowe Goldman publication
My article “Anne Rowe Goldman: Refashioning Women’s News in St. Petersburg, Florida,” was just published in FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, March 2011, 104-111. Here is more about Anne:A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe (later Goldman) moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three…
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Palm Beach Post and Kathryn Robinette
We took the longer trip back – Highway A1A from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach. There were breathtaking views of beautiful water and amazing houses. Lance pointed out: “Since you write about women from Boca and P.B., I thought we should see those places.” In particular, he was speaking of Kathryn Robinette. She is pictured above in a scene from the Penney-Missouri Awards. 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 in…
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Fort Lauderdale & the Florida Conference of Historians
We just got back from Fort Lauderdale and the Florida Conference of Historians. I presented the paper “‘You Can’t Hug a Newspaper’: Janet Chusmir, the Miami Herald and Newspaper Management.” Janet went from a general assignment reporter in the women’s pages to women’s page editor to executive editor of the Miami Herald. This paper was a biographical sketch of her career, as well as an examination of the role feminism played in her career. I plan to add to the paper with more of her columns and turn it into a journal article.
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Researching Jane Nickerson Steinberg
I had the wonderful experience this week of speaking to the daughter of Jane Nickerson Steinberg and exchanging emails with her son. So few of the women I study had children so those experiences are quite special. Jane Nickerson (the name she wrote under) was a longtime food editor at the New York Times but has been overshadowed by Craig Claiborne. Yet, Jane’s work was significant. She wrote wrote about food as news – especially coming out of World War II and the end of rationing. One of my great UCF students will be working with me this summer collecting and analyzing Jane’s work at the New York Times.
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Banning women at golf tournaments
There has been quite a bit of news coverage about another female reporter being banned from access at a golf tournament:“A female reporter was denied access to the locker room to interview Rory McIlroy after Sunday’s final round of the Masters, though it was later revealed as a misunderstanding by a security official. A Masters media staff member apologized Sunday to Tara Sullivan, a columnist for the Bergen (N.J.) Record, after she was barred by security personnel from entering the player’s locker room for an interview because she was a woman. At least a dozen male reporters were granted access to the locker room following Sunday’s final round of the…
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Journalist Mary Ann Grossman
I really enjoyed this article about Mary Ann Grossman who has spent 50 years at St. Paul Pioneer Press – many of those years as the women’s page editor. This was my favorite part:“Years later, Grossmann found herself defending the Women’s Department and the society it covered. “In the 1960s and ’70s, the next generation of women didn’t want anything to do with the women’s section. They all wanted to work for the city desk,” she said. “I always told them that we climbed on the shoulders of our sisters who came before us; don’t ever sneer at those women. And those women, through their charity balls and fundraisers, built…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
