If all the men in the West Virginia mine disaster are found dead, it will be the deadliest U.S. mine accident since the 1970 Kentucky disaster. Louisville Courier-Journal women’s page editor Carol Sutton covered the 1970 story – it was a story that she later said impacted her more than any other. From my article about Sutton:“The accident killed 38 miners in an explosion in Hayden, Kentucky. The mine blew up on the evening of December 30, 1970. At 4 a.m. the next day, Sutton and a photographer drove through a 10- inch snowstorm to get to the community. They arrived to a gymnasium full of burned bodies. The next…

If all the men in the West Virginia mine disaster are found dead, it will be the deadliest U.S. mine accident since the 1970 Kentucky disaster. Louisville Courier-Journal women’s page editor Carol Sutton covered the 1970 story – it was a story that she later said impacted her more than any other. From my article about Sutton:“The accident killed 38 miners in an explosion in Hayden, Kentucky. The mine blew up on the evening of December 30, 1970. At 4 a.m. the next day, Sutton and a photographer drove through a 10- inch snowstorm to get to the community. They arrived to a gymnasium full of burned bodies. The next…

Today I am working on three entries for the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of the Sixties: the media-generated bra-burning myth, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham and N.O.W. Katherine Graham’s Washington Post is often given credit for transforming women’s pages into modern lifestyle sections. Yet, a closer examination of women’s page in the 1960s shows that numerous newspapers were ahead of the Post – most notably Carol Sutton’s section at the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Today I am working on three entries for the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of the Sixties: the media-generated bra-burning myth, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham and N.O.W. Katherine Graham’s Washington Post is often given credit for transforming women’s pages into modern lifestyle sections. Yet, a closer examination of women’s page in the 1960s shows that numerous newspapers were ahead of the Post – most notably Carol Sutton’s section at the Louisville Courier-Journal.

I just finished reading a chapter about Carol Sutton in the above book, It Happened in Kentucky. Carol was an award-winning women’s page editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. She transitioned her section from traditional to progressive prior to the introduction of the Washington Post’s Style section. She went on to become the first female managing editor at a metro daily. My article about Carol comes out this Spring.

I just finished reading a chapter about Carol Sutton in the above book, It Happened in Kentucky. Carol was an award-winning women’s page editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal. She transitioned her section from traditional to progressive prior to the introduction of the Washington Post’s Style section. She went on to become the first female managing editor at a metro daily. My article about Carol comes out this Spring.