Edee Greene
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Florida Editor Edee Greene
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Florida Conference of Historians
My article about Edee Greene has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians in February 2009. Edee Greene was the women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1950s and 1960s. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards and was good friends with fellow Florida women’s page editor Marj Paxson. Here is my earlier post on Marj. I just found the obituary of Edee’s father Henry Nielsen. The obituary of Edee’s brother proved that “Edee” was a nickname for Edith.
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Beasley Award
My recent paper about Florida women’s page editors and club women was named honorable mention for the Maurine Beasley Award at the American Journalism Historians Association Conference in Seattle last weekend. This is an article from Editor & Publisher about Edee Greene. Edee was included in my paper. I am working on a biographical piece on Edee for an upcoming history conference.
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Edee Greene
Edee Greene was a Penney-Missouri award-winning Florida women’s page editor. Her section included progressive content that tackled important social issues in Fort Lauderdale. A Florida resident since the age of 12, she began her media career with radio station WSUN in St. Petersburg in 1932. She wrote soap opera scripts and had her own movie show. A year later, she married Tom Greene. She left radio to take care of her family and working for her husband’s advertising business. It was a miserable marriage, she says. It ended after 17 years, leaving her financially and emotionally drained. She was a single mother with three children. She worked for the women’s…
