Carol Sutton
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Excellence In Journalism: Pushing For Parity
A week from today, I will be speaking about women in newspaper management at the SPJ-sponsored Excellence in Journalism conference in Nashville. The invitation developed out of my research about women’s page editors who went in management: Gloria Biggs, Carol Sutton and Janet Chusmir.
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Media Report To Women Reference
It was a nice surprise to see that the current issue of Media Report To Women featured the great Poynter column about the research on female firsts in newspaper management that Lance & I published this summer in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. I will be speaking about the topic next week in Nashville at the SPJ-sponsored Excellence in Journalism conference.
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Poynter Post & Excellence in Journalism Talk
I was happy to see the great coverage Poynter gave to the research that Lance and I did about female firsts in newspaper management. Our article “Taking Chances and Making Changes: The Career Paths and Pitfalls of Pioneering Women in Newspaper Management” is in this summer’s issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. We looked at the careers of Gloria Biggs,Carol Sutton and Janet Chusmir. They all began their careers in the women’s pages of newspapers. That is a photo of Carol above. The Huff Post had a great post looking at Carol’s demotion and Jill Abramson’s firing at the New York Times. I will be speaking about issues involving…
- Bobbi McCallum, Carol Sutton, Dorothy Jurney, Flo Burge, journalism history, Maggie Savoy, Marie Anderson, women, women's page history
How the Tenure Process Can Marginalize Women in History
This post was inspired by Heather Cox Richardson’s post yesterday about mothers in the academy. In addition to excellent points about motherhood, she offered a reminder of what women often bring to research as they sometimes look for new topics or at an issue in a different way. In looking back post-tenure, it worries me that the requirements needed for tenure at an R-1 institution may lead to the marginalization of women in history. At my university, like many other schools, tenure means being a national expert – publishing in national journals. This means that research is largely about national figures, usually men. In fact, in what was intended to…
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Women’s History Month: Carol Sutton
Day 15 of Women’s History Month features Carol Sutton. She reformed her women’s page to make it more relevant in the 1960’s and was later promoted to managing editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. She was the first woman in such a management position at a newspaper that her family did not own. During her tenure, the newspaper won Sigma Delta Chi and Roy Howard awards for public service for coverage of school desegregation in Louisville. She was a winner of a Penney-Missouri Award. She was one of several women named Time magazine’s people of the year in 1975. She remained at the newspaper after she was demoted. In 1985 she…
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Happy Thanksgiving
When Carol Sutton was the women’s page editor of the Louisville Courier Journal in the late 1960s, she ran a lengthy story about poverty and starvation on Thanksgiving Day. She strove to include a mix of hard and soft news in the women’s pages – what I think of as quilted news. Carol went on to become one of the first women to be the managing editor of a metropolitan newspaper not owned by her family. Here is my article about Carol. Happy Thanksgiving. We are again spending the holiday at the beach.
