Jim Bellows
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Happy Birthday to Curtis
Today Curtis turns three years old – this is a photo of him at EPCOT taken last weekend. He is named for the husband of Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry – Curtis Castleberry – and the husband of Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy – Jim Bellows. Jim was also a great champion for women in the newsroom. Happy Birthday to Curtis!
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Big Finds in the Marjorie Paxson Papers
I just finished going through the wonderful package of papers that arrived from the National Women & Media Collection. The copies are from the newly indexed Marjorie Paxson papers. Marjorie, who helped established the NWMC, was a longtime women’s page editor before becoming a newspaper publisher. That is a drawing of her above and a card signed by her friends and colleagues at the Miami Herald as she was leaving for the St. Petersburg Times. There are also great photos of her going away party – including one image of Marj with women’s page pioneer Marie Anderson. In some ways it was bittersweet to see the images. Marjorie looks so…
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New Research Finds
I have completed two orders for new material about women’s page journalism and food journalism. From the Fales Library at NYU, I ordered a transcript of an interview between Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone and the great food writer Laura Shapiro. I am presenting a paper about Cecily at the National Communication Association Convention this fall. From the National Women and Media Collection, I placed a large order of copies from the papers of women’s page editor and later publisher Marjorie Paxson. It includes references to Paul Myhre, Edee Green and Jim Bellows. There was also a folder devoted to a food editors meeting.
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Film Critic Judith Crist Has Died
Pioneering film critic Judith Crist has died. She is considered one of the first woman to become a full-time critic at a major U.S. newspaper and was among the first reviewers of her time to gain a national following. She worked for the legendary Jim Bellows while at the NY Herald Tribune in the 1960s. Here is a story about that time:“She became famous [infamous} for her scathing review of Spender’s Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara, being shown at Radio City Music Hall. Crist wrote: “A Film that for sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety makes the nudie shows at the Rialyo look like Walter Disney productions.Radio City…
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Jim Bellows, women & ASNE
I am working on an article about how women’s page editors worked with the journalism industry in the 1960s and early 1970s to improve the status of women at newspapers. I am focusing on three organizations: ASNE, APME and the American Press Institute. There has been a tendency to simplify women’s roles at newspapers as one of victims. While they were clearly discriminated against – from pay to promotions – they did try to make change for themselves and future female journalists. They were aware of their smaller paychecks and poor treatment. They took action though organizations that they hoped would make a difference. For example, Miami Herald Women’s Page…
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Mary Anne Dolan
I am working on a paper about women as newspaper “firsts” – the first female managing editors and publishers. In the 1970s and 1980s, several women who went into management were deemed “firsts.” I am looking to see how they went from the women’s papers into management. My article about one of those women, Carol Sutton, will come out this month. She went from the women’s editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal to the first female managing editor of that newspaper – this promotion earned her nationwide attention. I am beginning to look at the career of Mary Anne Dolan, pictured above. She became the first female managing editor of the…
