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Women’s History Month: Polly Paffilas
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Polly Paffilas, the longtime food editor at the Akron Beacon Journal. According to her obituary:“”Polly was one of the grand dames of journalism,’ said her former longtime colleague Mickey Porter. “She’d tackle any kind of story.”Her newspaper career covered more than 45 years before she retired in 1987. She and colleague Frances B. Murphey, who died in 1998, broke into the business as temporary hires through Manpower. When the staff was short in the newsroom during World War II, they were called in. It was a male-dominated business when Miss Paffilas signed on in 1942, in the low-tech days of pencils, typewriters and…
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Women & Food Symposium
I enjoyed speaking at the Women & Food Symposium on Saturday. It was held at the University of Texas while I pitched in remotely. (That’s me on the big screen.) I spoke on the panel:Food Writing in the Age of New Media. I loved that there was so much social media during the event, such as the Tweets above. Here is a Storify of the social media about the event.
