Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir (who began her career at the Herald as a women’s page reporter working for Marie Anderson) offered interesting insight into the role of women in journalism during this 1988 panel, Women in Newspaper Management. Janet made the transition from the women’s pages to management rather easily. Others, like Gloria Biggs of Florida Today, struggled. The DVD is available through C-SPAN.

Yesterday I interviewed Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten about his experiences with Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir. (Gene was editor of the newspaper’s magazine, Tropic, in the 1980s.) He gave me some great insight and helped clarify more about her management style for a paper I am working on. He also provided a great story that I will share in a later post. Janet’s role as a “first” is worth studying and maybe more important is her unique career path. After earning her journalism degree, she stayed at home and raised two children. Then, when they were older, she joined the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. She worked…

Yesterday I interviewed Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten about his experiences with Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir. (Gene was editor of the newspaper’s magazine, Tropic, in the 1980s.) He gave me some great insight and helped clarify more about her management style for a paper I am working on. He also provided a great story that I will share in a later post. Janet’s role as a “first” is worth studying and maybe more important is her unique career path. After earning her journalism degree, she stayed at home and raised two children. Then, when they were older, she joined the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. She worked…

I just found this great column about women and history written by journalism legend Tad Bartimus. I loved this line: “Every woman who has a “first” label attached to her name walks in the steps of countless foremothers.” In the column she mentions women’s page editor turned newspaper executive Janet Chusmir – a good friend of Tad’s. I am currently working on an article about Janet. I want to explore the career paths of these early female newspaper executives. I sat on a panel with Tad several years ago at the University of Missouri. She gave a wonderful talk.