Aileen Ryan
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Women’s History Month: Aileen Ryan
Day 18 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…
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Day One of Favorite Newspaper Fashion Editors: Aileen Ryan
This week I will be blogging about my favorite newspaper fashion editors – beginning with the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. 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 method of covering…
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Dorothy Dawe and furnishings coverage
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. Yesterday, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award. I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. (That is a photo of her above.) I found her obituary – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I am filling out the paperwork to get her death certificate. I did discover this story about a…
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Dorothy Dawe and furnishings coverage
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. Yesterday, I started looking into furnishings coverage and the award. I learned that the award is named for a furnishings reporter at the Milwaukee Journal. (That is a photo of her above.) I found her obituary – which noted that she died at age 42 but there were no other details. I am filling out the paperwork to get her death certificate. I did discover this story about a…
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Milwaukee Press Club article digitized
The Wisconsin Magazine of History has digitized the article Lance & I wrote about the fight of Milwaukee journalists (including women’s page editor Aileen Ryan) to join the Milwaukee Press Club: Wilmot Voss, Kimberly; Speere, Lance “Way past deadline: the women’s fight to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club” “In this article, Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere explore the fight by female journalists to enter the male-only Milwaukee Press Club beginning in 1966. Voss and Speere examine how the women’s protests to enter Milwaukee’s Press Club became symbolic of the larger women’s fight for equality occurring across the country in the 1960s. The article also describes some of Milwaukee’s pioneering…
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Milwaukee Press Club article digitized
The Wisconsin Magazine of History has digitized the article Lance & I wrote about the fight of Milwaukee journalists (including women’s page editor Aileen Ryan) to join the Milwaukee Press Club: Wilmot Voss, Kimberly; Speere, Lance “Way past deadline: the women’s fight to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club” “In this article, Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere explore the fight by female journalists to enter the male-only Milwaukee Press Club beginning in 1966. Voss and Speere examine how the women’s protests to enter Milwaukee’s Press Club became symbolic of the larger women’s fight for equality occurring across the country in the 1960s. The article also describes some of Milwaukee’s pioneering…
