Florida Women's Pages
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Society Coverage
I am finishing the revisions on my book chapter on women and gossip – focusing on the content of the women’s pages. Today I wrote about Kathryn Robinette. Kathryn Robinette won Penney-Missouri Awards for her women’s section of the Palm Beach Post in 1966 and 1968. She earned an undergraduate degree and then a master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago before trying women’s page journalism in 1960 in Georgia. She wrote in a letter: “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…
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- Anne Rowe, Edee Greene, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Roberta Applegate
Talk at Urban Rethink
I enjoyed speaking about Florida women’s page editors and their role in building community at Urban ReThink on Tuesday night. I spoke about Marie Anderson and Roberta Applegate from the Miami Herald; Anne Rowe from the St. Petersburg Times and Edee Greene from the Fort Lauderdale News. A highlight of the experience was speaking with Edee’s grandson Patrick. Here is a link to my PowerPoint from the talk.
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A Visit to the Kennedy Space Center
We visited the Kennedy Space Center this weekend. When the space work in Cape Canaveral first started, Miami Herald women’s page reporter Roberta Applegate wrote a 5-part series on the women who worked for NASA.
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Society Reporters Hide Marriages
As I work on my revisions for my book chapter about the role of gossip in the women’s pages, I came across the above story about Miami Herald society editor Eleanor Ratelle. Interesting that it was her job to write about weddings and she hid her wedding from her editor. Eleanor’s advice column is a key part of the book chapter. Here is a link to her papers. Lance & I are presenting a paper about that advice column at NCA this fall. Location:Society coverage
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Great Marjorie Paxson Image
The Missouri Historical Society recently posted this great image of women’s page editor Marjorie Paxson to its Facebook wall. I had never seen an image of Marjorie in her younger years.
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Florida food writer Virginia Heffington
Last month, the Miami Herald cited a recipe from its 1960s food editor Virginia Heffington. Above is the book that Heffington wrote in 1968 when she was the Homemaking Editor of the Miami Herald. At that point she had been at the Herald for five years and had won a Vesta Award – the top recognition for food journalism. In the introduction to the book, she mentioned that she was a graduate of Iowa State in home economic journalism – an area that I am researching for my book. A librarian at Iowa State was helpful in tracking down information about Virginia. I also found an archive in Canada that…
