Florida Women's Pages
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Jacksonville journalist Jessie-Lynne Kerr
Jacksonville journalist Jessie-Lynne Kerr died this week. She is another example of a great reporter who got her start in the women’s pages. From her obituary: “On Dec. 7, 1959, she began work as a reporter for the women’s section of the daily paper.Most of her work was representative of the women’s pages of the day. She would write up weddings, put together the food page, report on charity galas. But on Dec. 16, 1960, during a driving snow storm, two planes collided over Staten Island. Her car was equipped with snow tires and chains, so she was sent to the scene to cover her first hard news story. “It…
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Anne Rowe Goldman publication
My article “Anne Rowe Goldman: Refashioning Women’s News in St. Petersburg, Florida,” was just published in FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, March 2011, 104-111. Here is more about Anne:A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe (later Goldman) moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three…
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Anne Rowe Goldman publication
My article “Anne Rowe Goldman: Refashioning Women’s News in St. Petersburg, Florida,” was just published in FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, March 2011, 104-111. Here is more about Anne:A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe (later Goldman) moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three…
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Palm Beach Post and Kathryn Robinette
We took the longer trip back – Highway A1A from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach. There were breathtaking views of beautiful water and amazing houses. Lance pointed out: “Since you write about women from Boca and P.B., I thought we should see those places.” In particular, he was speaking of Kathryn Robinette. She is pictured above in a scene from the Penney-Missouri Awards. 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…
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Palm Beach Post and Kathryn Robinette
We took the longer trip back – Highway A1A from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach. There were breathtaking views of beautiful water and amazing houses. Lance pointed out: “Since you write about women from Boca and P.B., I thought we should see those places.” In particular, he was speaking of Kathryn Robinette. She is pictured above in a scene from the Penney-Missouri Awards. 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…
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Fort Lauderdale & the Florida Conference of Historians
We just got back from Fort Lauderdale and the Florida Conference of Historians. I presented the paper “‘You Can’t Hug a Newspaper’: Janet Chusmir, the Miami Herald and Newspaper Management.” Janet went from a general assignment reporter in the women’s pages to women’s page editor to executive editor of the Miami Herald. This paper was a biographical sketch of her career, as well as an examination of the role feminism played in her career. I plan to add to the paper with more of her columns and turn it into a journal article.
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