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Florida Communication Association presentation
I presented my paper on Miami Herald columnist Eleanor Hart and her “Column with a Heart” this weekend at the Florida Communication Association convention in Orlando. There was no technology available but the powerpoint I would have included is in the previous post. Every women’s section included columns, especially advice columns. I plan to beginning working in this area next summer
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Miami Herald women’s page columnist Eleanor Hart
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Dorothy Dawe death certificate
One of the four Fs of the women’s pages is furnishings. (Although I have found that at some newspapers, furnishings stories were found in the real estate section.) For decades, the top recognition for furnishing coverage was the Dorothy Dawe Award. A few weeks ago, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award. I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. I found her obituary last month – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I filled out the paperwork to get her death certificate and it arrived last week. It looks like she died…
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Vivian Castleberry and depression
I am back to working on my book about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. In this article I recently found, Vivian writes about depression. It was a disease she suffered from following her bout with cancer.
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AJHA Awards
Today was a great day for my paper, “Food Journalism or Culinary Anthropology? Re-evaluating Soft News and the Influence of Jeanne Voltz’s Food Section in the Los Angeles Times.” At the American Journalism Historians Association Convention, I won the Maurine Beasley Award for outstanding paper on women’s history. I also won the David Sloan Award for the outstanding faculty paper. I am humbled by the great news.
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More about food editor Peggy Daum
On Thursday, I presented a paper about Miami Herald and L.A. Times food editor Jeanne Voltz. I am now working on a paper about Milwaukee Journal food editor Peggy Daum. She was a women’s page reporter, working under Penney-Missouri Award winner Aileen Ryan before becoming the food editor in the 1960s. Peggy won several Vesta Awards – the top recognition for food editing and reporting. She went on to be the founding president of the Association of Food Journalists. Peggy earned her journalism degree at the University of Arizona – in Tucson, where we are this week. The archive at UA uncovered images of Peggy from yearbooks in the 1950s.…
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