Anne Rowe
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Margaret Sullivan Named Public Editor at the NYT
It was announced today that Margaret Sullivan was named the public editor (sometimes known as an ombudsman) at the New York Times. This is the first time a woman will be in that position at the NYT. Likely the first woman at an American newspaper to hold this position was Anne Rowe Goldman at the St. Petersburg Times. She rose to that position after years in the women’s pages. My article about Anne was published in the March 2011 issue of the Florida Conference of Historians Annals.
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End of the St. Petersburg Times
Today was the first day that the St. Petersburg Times officially became the Tampa Bay Times. After a long and significant history, the St. Petersburg Times now longer exists – at least by name. Here is the story. For many years, the St. Petersburg Times had one of the top women’s pages in the country. The newspaper was one of the first to transition into a lifestyle section – although the Washington Post usually gets all the credit. (At the Times, it was known as the “Day” section.) For many years, the women’s page editor (and later the Day editor) was Anne Rowe – later Goldman. That is a photo…
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Henrietta Poynter and the St. Petersburg Times/Poynter Institute
On Thursday, we are traveling to St. Petersburg for a three-day workshop at Poynter. It is named for St. Petersburg Times Publisher Nelson Poynter – although I always think that it should also be named for his second wife, Henrietta, who wrote editorials for the newspaper with her husband. Together, they created Congressional Quarterly. She had an impressive background with a 1922 journalism degree from Columbia University and then an editor for Vogue and Vanity Fair before marrying Nelson. She was the first woman to serve on the American Committee of the International Press Institute. A friend described her as “an earthy highbrow … the most unboring person I ever…
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Anne Rowe Goldman publication
My article “Anne Rowe Goldman: Refashioning Women’s News in St. Petersburg, Florida,” was just published in FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, March 2011, 104-111. Here is more about Anne:A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe (later Goldman) moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three…
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Anne Rowe Goldman publication
My article “Anne Rowe Goldman: Refashioning Women’s News in St. Petersburg, Florida,” was just published in FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, March 2011, 104-111. Here is more about Anne:A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe (later Goldman) moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three…
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Editing on the way to the beach
We spent yesterday at the beaches of Cape Canaveral. On the drive to the ocean, I edited my article about Anne Rowe Goldman, the longtime women’s page editor at both St. Petersburg newspapers. I presented a paper about her last Spring and am getting the piece ready to send off to conference proceedings. The challenge has been to edit the paper down to only 12 pages while still explaining her significance in Florida journalism.
