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Editing at the beach
We spent yesterday at the beach. Curtis slept while I did the final proof on my article about Louisville women’s page editor (and later managing editor) Carol Sutton – it will be out later this month in American Journalism. I also started reading the book, A Big Life in Advertising. It is the story of one of the first female advertising executives in the 1950s and 1960s. Here is a chapter from the book. I plan to explore the interaction of women’s page editorial content and the advertising in the sections. I am also curious about how these “firsts” handled their new positions – especially if they had children.
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Drue Terry Lytle
I am still collecting information about Drue Lytle who was a Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser in the 1960s She was married for several years to journalist John Terry, who was killed in the war – as shown above. This shows that Drue worked for the government during the war. I sent a request to the Hawaii Historical Society yesterday to find images of Drue.
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More Janet Chusmir video
Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir speaks at a 1989 conference about women and the media.
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Mary Anne Dolan
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Women’s Page Editor Arlene Alligood
I am just beginning to collect information about 1968 Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor Arlene Alligood. She spent most of the 1960s working at the St. Petersburg Times and the Evening-Independent. While at the sister newspapers, she would have worked with Anne Rowe Goldman and Gloria Biggs. Here is one of her articles. Her Penney-Missouri Award was for her work at the Suffolk Sun in New York. She was a founding editor of the newspaper which began publication on November 21, 1966. In January of 1968, she joined the women’s page staff at the Washington Post. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida. Here is…
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Jeanne Voltz and food journalism
I just received another Jeanne Voltz cookbook: The L.A. Gourmet. Jeanne Voltz was a leading food editor for the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. Food sections were a large part of women’s pages. Voltz also wrote more than a dozen cookbooks. What has been helpful about the books has been the dedication pages. Through the dedications, I have learned quite a bit about her parents and grandmother. I am completing a conference paper about Voltz and her work at the Times. In my look at her articles, I have found much more than simple recipes. She explores government regulation, consumer news and…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
