Carol Sutton
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Women’s Page Editor Margaret Miller
I was pleased to get a lovely email yesterday and to learn about women’s page journalist Margaret Miller. She was an Associated Press reporter from 1944 to 1952 before taking time off to raise her children. She returned to newspapering in Detroit in 1967 as the editor of the women’s section – that would then be called “Suburban Life.” Here is a great column about Margaret and her influence. I liked this: “Margaret was a pragmatist, but one who was skillful in moving business forward whether it be in the day-to-day tasks of getting out the newspaper or in edging forward women’s equality in the workplace.” I also liked the…
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More Stereotypical Coverage of Women
Media stories are everywhere today asking the question about the new pregnant female CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer: Can she handle motherhood and her career? This stereotypical, sexist coverage is ridiculous. Has anyone asked if the men who are CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies could handle fatherhood and their careers? It is also an old question. In June of 1974, former women’s page editor Carol Sutton was named managing editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal – the first woman in this position at a newspaper that her family did not own. This is from my article in American Journalism about Sutton. It is sadly familiar more than three decades later: “Sutton…
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Off to AEJMC in St. Louis
Today we are off to the AEJMC Convention in St. Louis where I present four papers – all with a connection to the women’s pages. It is our first time back in the three years since we left St. Louis. St. Louis was the hometown of Carol Sutton, pictured above. She was a women’s page editor in Louisville who rose to the position of managing editor – the first woman to do so at a newspaper that her family did not own. I will be speaking about her this week.
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AEJMC: Commission on the Status of Women paper
Lance and I learned that our paper, “A False Start, a Heavy Burden and Hugs: A Study of the Female “Firsts” in Newspaper Management” has been accept by the Commission on the Status of Women of AEJMC. We looked at the careers of three women: Gloria Biggs as the first female publisher of her non-family owned newspaper in 1973, Carol Sutton as managing editor of a major metropolitan newspaper in 1974 and Janet Chusmir as executive editor of a major metropolitan newspaper in 1987. Their stories are important to understand how progress was made and how it was slowed. It also provides perspectives about the different paths to newspaper management…
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AEJMC: Commission on the Status of Women paper
Lance and I learned that our paper, “A False Start, a Heavy Burden and Hugs: A Study of the Female “Firsts” in Newspaper Management” has been accept by the Commission on the Status of Women of AEJMC. We looked at the careers of three women: Gloria Biggs as the first female publisher of her non-family owned newspaper in 1973, Carol Sutton as managing editor of a major metropolitan newspaper in 1974 and Janet Chusmir as executive editor of a major metropolitan newspaper in 1987. Their stories are important to understand how progress was made and how it was slowed. It also provides perspectives about the different paths to newspaper management…
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Kentucky Firsts
Rosie Napravnik (pictured above) hopes to become the first woman to win the Kentucky Derby today. Napravnik will be aboard Pants on Fire, on whom she won the Louisiana Derby. Five women have ridden in the Kentucky Derby — the last was Rosemary Homeister in 2003 — but none has finished in the top 10. Napravnik already has made some history. She’s the first female jockey to win the Louisiana Derby and the Fair Grounds riding title, finishing first on 110 of her 482 mounts to far outpace closest competitor James Graham (76 of 539). Louisville is home to another important first: Carol Sutton. Carol was a groundbreaking women’s page…
