Dorothy Jurney
- Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson, National Women and Media Collection, women and journalism, women and politics
Women & Politics Book Update
My reviews are in for my book manuscript, Politicking Politely, are in. Great news – all three reviewers liked it. I will make revisions this fall and turn it in by December 1. The book will come out in 2017. The book focuses on women’s page editors and women in government in the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the women at the center of the book are above – Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.
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Gulfport Talk: Florida Women in the 1950s & 1960s
I am looking forward to speaking at the Gulfport Historical Society about the Florida women I study – including several in the photo above. This image from the Miami Herald in the 1950s includes Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Roberta Applegate.
- Dorothy Jurney, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson, oral history, Vivian Castleberry, WPCF
Oral History Association Conference: 2015
I had a great time in Tampa at the 2015 Oral History Association Conference. I spoke about the women’s page editors who were part of the Washington Press Club Foundation’s Women in Journalism oral history project: Marie Anderson, Vivian Castleberry, Dorothy Jurney & Marjorie Paxson.
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Going over the Catherine East Oral History
I spent this morning going through Catherine East’s oral history. It is available in her papers in the Schlesinger Library. East’s work with women’s page editors Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney are part of my upcoming book about women and politics.
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New Dorothy Jurney letter
I am back to working on my women and politics book that focuses on several women’s page editors, including Marjorie Paxson, Marie Anderson, Vera Glaser and Dorothy Jurney. In my research, I came across a great letter to women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney from food editor Eudora Garrison. It can be found in Jurney’s papers in the National Women & Media Collection. Dorothy was the women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s when she was asked to go to the Charlotte Observer for a few weeks to help improve the women’s pages at that newspaper. Eudora was the food editor at the time. Eudora wrote to Dorothy…
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AEJMC: Talking About Women’s Involvement in ASNE & APME
We had a great time at the AEJMC Conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Lance & I presented the poster “Crusaders, Not Subordinates: How Women’s Page Editors Worked to Change the Gender Climate Within APME and ASNE.” In the paper, we analyzed the work of women’s page editors Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Maggie Savoy. These women fought through the 1960s and early 1970s to improve the workplace for women journalists.
