I just noticed this story about Elizabeth Shaw, who was a women’s page editor in Arizona in the 1940s before a successful publishing career. This is what the reporter wrote about Shaw’s work as the women’s page editor at the Arizona Daily Star in the 1940: J.C. Martin, retired Star books editor, said Shaw was ahead of her time as a working mother and a journalist. “I tend to think that good writing began to be valued in newspapers in about the ’50s and ’60s and Liz was there in the 1940s raising the standards of writing.”Martin credits Shaw for subtly changing the mix of stories on the women’s pages.…

I just noticed this story about Elizabeth Shaw, who was a women’s page editor in Arizona in the 1940s before a successful publishing career. This is what the reporter wrote about Shaw’s work as the women’s page editor at the Arizona Daily Star in the 1940: J.C. Martin, retired Star books editor, said Shaw was ahead of her time as a working mother and a journalist. “I tend to think that good writing began to be valued in newspapers in about the ’50s and ’60s and Liz was there in the 1940s raising the standards of writing.”Martin credits Shaw for subtly changing the mix of stories on the women’s pages.…