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Women in American Journalism
Women in American Journalism: A New History by Jan Whitt is now out. (Published by the University of Illinois Press.) The book features a chapter about women’s page editors, including Vivian Castleberry and Dorothy Jurney.
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Florida Conference of Historians
My article about Edee Greene has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians in February 2009. Edee Greene was the women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1950s and 1960s. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards and was good friends with fellow Florida women’s page editor Marj Paxson. Here is my earlier post on Marj. I just found the obituary of Edee’s father Henry Nielsen. The obituary of Edee’s brother proved that “Edee” was a nickname for Edith.
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Druzella Goodwin Lytle
This week I discovered information on Druzella Lytle who won a second-place Penney-Missouri Award in 1962 and 1963 when she was the women’s page editor at the Honolulu Advertiser. She was women’s page editor at the newspaper from 1953 to 1969. This photo is of Druzella when she was a student at UCLA in the 1920s. I plan to write an article about Druzella and the women journalists she worked with in Hawaii.
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Marie Anderson letter
These are letters that Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson wrote to angry readers. (They can be found in her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.) Some historians have noted that women’s page journalists had little power at their newspapers but this was not the case for several Florida women’s page editors. Anderson often stood her ground to management, readers and advertisers. Here is my earlier on post on Marie.
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Jeanne Voltz in Miami
I am working on an article about food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will focus on her time in Los Angeles. This page is from Voltz’s time in the women’s page at the Miami Herald. Notice the headshot of Voltz. The food editor was often a local celebrity.
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My announcement of Dr. Beasley’s retirement at AJHA
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
