Florida Women's Pages
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Florida Conference of Historians
I just presented the paper, “Beverley Brink Morales Geary Badhorse: Trailblazing Journalist and Advocate,” at the Florida Conference of Historians in Lake City. It has taken many years to put together Beverley’s story. In this paper, I largely focused on her Florida years at the Sun Sentinel. I hope to put together a journal manuscript that focuses on all of Beverley’s newspaper work.
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Janet Chusmir publication
I just got the news that my article about Miami Herald editor Janet Chusmir(who began her career as a women’s page journalist) is going to be published. “You Can’t Hug a Newspaper”: Janet Chusmir and the Miami Herald,” will be published this month in the FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, February 2012. I also learned that the article is a finalist for the Thomas M. Campbell prize for best article. I am also working on an article about Janet and her role as a “first” in female newspaper management.
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Eleanor Hart
I just received an email from a relative of Eleanor (Ratelle) Hart. I love hearing from family members of the women I study. Eleanor was a reporter and advice columnist for the women’s pages of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. I went through her papers at the South Florida Historical Society in Miami about three years ago and presented a paper about her last year at the Florida Communication Association conference. My paper focused on how her column reflected the community’s negotiation of change in terms of race and gender. The integration of neighborhoods and working mothers led to heated letters from readers. Advice columns, like the…
