Florida newspapers
- Billie O'Day, Florida Conference of Historians, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages
FCH Talk about Billie O’Day
The Florida Conference of Historian program is out. I am happy to be speaking about Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day. This is from her obituary: “Summing herself up in her notes, Billie O’Day wrote: “I believed Anita Hill. My favorite TV shows are ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ ‘Brooklyn Bridge,’ ‘Murder She Wrote,’ ‘The Civil War,’ and any other documentary by Ken Burns.“I watch CNN and C-Span. I go to lunch every day with my next-door neighbor, a Juilliard grad and a terrific vocalist and pianist. I don’t go out at night.’’
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Upcoming Tustenegee Article
I was happy to learn on Friday that my article about Palm Beach women’s page editor Kathryn Robinette has been accepted for publication by the Tustenegee journal.
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Researching Kathryn Robinette
I am beginning a a potential new journal article about Palm Beach women’s page editor Kathryn Robinette who won two Penney-Missouri Awards, the top recognition for women’s pages in the 1960s. Robinette earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism at the Georgia newspaper Morning News and Evening Press in 1960. She wrote of the experience: “I typed weddings and all that tiresome stuff but managed to fall in love with the work anyway. I also formed firm opinions about what type of story best served the reader’s interest – having been one for so long.” In…
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AJHA Newsletter: My Anne Rowe Column
Looking forward to the AJHA conference in St. Petersburg next month. This is a column I wrote for AJHA about one of my favorite St. Pete journalists, Anne Rowe Goldman.
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Helen Muir, Marie Anderson, Miami food, Miami Herald
Miami Food & Helen Muir’s Tea Parties
In writing the Miami food book, I am including a section on Helen Muir’s famous tea parties. She was a writer for the women’s section of the Miami News and the Miami Herald and she also was a book editor. Women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney are included in this photo.
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Miami Herald food editor Lowis Carlton
Love this image of food editor at the Miami Herald – Lowis Carlton. She had a background in both journalism and home economics. She also wrote several Florida cookbooks.
