Florida newspapers
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2018 Florida Historical Society Meeting
The dates and location for the 2018 Florida Historical Society Meeting have been announced. I plan to speak about the women’s pages of the Miami Herald – including Marie Anderson, Dorothy Jurney, Jeanne Voltz, Marjorie Paxson and Eleanor Hart.
- Dorothy Chapman, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson
Florida Council for History Education
I had a great time talking about Florida women’s page editors in Sarasota at the Florida Council for History Education. It was a full room with some great questions.
- Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Marjorie Paxson, Polly Paffilas, women's history
Talking About Florida Women’s Page Editors
I am looking forward to presenting “Pioneering Florida Women’s Page Journalists: Managing Conflict and Encouraging Compromise in Their Communities, 1950s and 1960s,” at the Florida Council for History Education conference in Sarasota. Mixed in with the advertisements in the 1950s and 1960s, there were several newspaper women’s pages that included stories that were part of the women’s movement’s platform – stories about domestic violence, the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion reform. These stories reached large audiences and impacted the work of other editors and women leaders. The circulations of the papers were high so the work of the women editors reached large segments of their own communities and sometimes beyond…
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Writing Women into the Curriculum
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Kathryn Robinette Article in The Tustenegee
My article “Kathryn Robinette: Redefining Society News in 1960s Palm Beach,” was published yesterday in The Tustenegee, the journal of the Palm Beach Historical Society. Robinette will be part of my book about women’s page journalists coming out in 2018.
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- Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Janet Chusmir, Miami Herald, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Day 26 & Janet Chusmir
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Janet Chusmir. Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her…
- Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald, women's history month, women's page history
Women’s History Month: Day 16 & Marjorie Paxson
Day 16 of Womn’s History Month features Marjorie Paxson who helped found the National Women and Media Collection. She was a longtime women’s page journalist in Texas and Florida who became the fourth female publisher at Gannett. She worked on the hard news side during World War II and then returned to the women’s pages in peacetime. She worked at women’s pages in Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. She was a good friend of Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney. Here is a link to the finding guide for her papers. Here is a link to an article Lance & I wrote about Paxson.
