Florida newspapers
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Women’s History Month: Day 4 & Beverley Morales
Day 4 of Women’s History month features Beverley Brink Morales She grew up on a Montana ranch where she punched cattle, dehorned calves, and herded sheep. She graduated from Montana State University and was hired by a newspaper to cover snow ski competitions and prizefights. After some public relations positions, she was hired as a society reporter at the Mexico News in Mexico City. She married the newspaper’s sports editor, Hector Morales. The couple came to the U.S. in 1956 and ran a newspaper in North Dakota. In 1959, she became an assistant editor in the Miami Herald’s women’s section – the top women’s section in the country. Unlike many…
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Women’s History Month: Day 3 & Edee Greene
Day 3 of Women’s History Month features Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene. I am blogging all month about Florida women’s page journalists. 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 ended after 17 years, leaving her…
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Women’s History Month: Food Editor Lowis Carlton
Day Two post for Women’s History Month features Florida women’s page journalist Lowis Carlton. She was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1970s. This image is from her tenure at the Herald – Lowis Carlton. She had a background in both journalism and home economics. She also wrote several Florida cookbooks. I am including her in the book I am writing about Miami food history.
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Women’s History Month: Florida Women’s Page Journalists & Jeanne Voltz
Day one of Women’s History Month features the first food editor I ever studied: Miami Herald & Los Angeles Times food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will be blogging about a different Florida women’s page journalists. Here is one of my articles about Voltz. Today, Voltz’s recipe for Green Corn Tamales can be found on the Food Network website with a note giving credit to her acclaimed book, Barbecued Ribs, Smoked Butts, and Other Great Feeds. James Beard, a well-known name in food and a contemporary of Julia Child, wrote of the book, “Jeanne Voltz has written a definitive book on barbecuing. She understands the varying tastes and the techniques of…
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Elvis in Florida Book & Anne Rowe Goldman
I really enjoyed Bob Kealing’s book about Elvis in Florida – Elvis Ignited: The Rise of an Icon in Florida. I especially enjoyed the sections about women’s page journalists – including Anne Rowe. Here is a link to an article I wrote about Rowe’s career in St. Petersburg.
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Billie O’Day as Symphony Conductor
I was happy to find this reference to Billie O’Day as a symphony conductor. Her daytime job was the women’s page editor at the Miami News. I am speaking about O’Day at the upcoming Florida Conference of Historians.
