Aileen Ryan
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Milwaukee Fashion Editor Aileen Ryan
A favorite Milwaukee fashion journalist is the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a new…
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Women’s History Month: Day 25 & Aileen Ryan
Day 25 of Women’s History Month features the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a…
- Aileen Ryan, Constance Daniell, Dorothy Dawe, food journalism, furnishings, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Press Club, Peggy Daum
Our American Journalism Article Officially Out
The article Lance & I wrote about the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal has been published. It was great to tell the stories of so many important women – including Peggy Daum, Aileen Ryan and Clarice Rowlands.
- Aileen Ryan, Constance Daniell, journalism history, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Press Club, Peggy Daum
More Than “Rations, Passions, and Fashions”: Re-Examining the Women’s Pages in the Milwaukee Journal
The article Lance & I wrote about the Milwaukee Journal has been published in American Journalism: More Than “Rations, Passions, and Fashions”: Re-Examining the Women’s Pages in the Milwaukee Journal. It is available here. I have several free copies to give away. Please email if interested. We are working on a “Teach the Journal” article to accompany the ascholarship. It will be available online this fall.
- Aileen Ryan, Barbara Cloud, Eleni Epstein, Eugenia Sheppard, fashion history, fashion journalism, Judy Lunn, soft news
Media Report To Women: Newspaper Fashion History
I was excited to see that the new issue of the Media Report To Women is out. It includes my article about the history of newspaper fashion sections in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on fashion reporter Eugenia Sheppard and also includes a list of fashion reporters to be studied in the future. It builds on my work on Aileen Ryan and Eleni Epstein.
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Talk at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
I had a great time at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about the Milwaukee women’s page journalists and the food editors from my book, The Food Section.
