Florida Women's Pages
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Florida Media Coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment
I’ve received a revise and resubmit on my article about Florida newspaper’s coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment and Sen. Lori Wilson. Sen. Wilson was the only woman in the state senate at the time and was the sponsor of the E.R.A. (She was also the wife of Gannett executive Al Neuharth at the time.) I’m working on the revisions now. Many women’s page journalists supported the ERA. But, in the 1970s, when the final states needed to be ratified, the sections were eliminated. The new sections were often headed by men. For example, Marjorie Paxson lost her job twice.
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Florida Editor Edee Greene
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Janet Chusmir
Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her own short autobiographical statement written when she won a…
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Miami Herald editor Lee Hills
I just found this photo of Lee Hills who Dorothy Jurney reported to at the Miami Herald in the 1950s. Dorothy later followed Lee to the Detroit Free Press in 1960. He was a champion of improving the content of women’s sections. Here is more about Lee Hills. In this photo, he is speaking at Journalism Week at the Missouri School of Journalism. A building at the School is named for Lee Hills. Several well known women’s page editors graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism including Carol Sutton and Marjorie Paxson.
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Roberta Applegate articles
I just found these articles by Miami Herald women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate in the Florida Heritage Collection. The clip is in the papers of Gov. C. Farris Bryant scrapbook, folder 11, item 2. This is an earlier post on Roberta. She was a “first” several times in journalism before becoming a journalism professor at Kansas State in the 1960s.
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Marie Anderson’s Father
I just came across the photo of a young Judge Robert H. Anderson, Marie’s father. (Marie Anderson was the women’s page editor of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s.) It seems to verify the couple in the earlier post are Marie’s parents. He was a member of the circuit court in Miami. This is the Who’s Who entry for Judge Anderson. Marie is listed as his daughter. This is another biographical entry for the Judge.
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