jounalism history
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Bringing Back Home Ec
Last week, the NY Times ran an editorial about reintroducing home ec as a way to fight obesity. Here is a link to the story. As I have written: For too long, women’s pages, which included food, have been looked at as sections that simply reinforced a traditional role for women. This was once how home economics was viewed, too. It was simply a place that reinforced women’s traditional roles. As one home economics scholar wrote, “Home economics has not fared well at the hands of historians. Until recently women’s historians largely dismissed home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen.” In recent years,…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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More Jane Nickerson Article Analysis
I am going over my clips from Jane Nickerson’s work at the New York Times and have found clear evidence of her “food as news” work. (This goes counter to the credit that too many historians give later NYT food editor Craig Claiborne.) Take for example, the above article from August 14, 1946. In it, Nickerson writes: “Potatoes have been pressed into service as a substitute so that more grain and flour can be sent to starving people.” She goes on to give several sample recipes using potatoes.
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Final edits on Eleni Epstein
We have finished our final edits of our article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Estein. She won the first fashion award in the Penney-Missouri Award. Her papers are in the National Women and Media Collection – the only fashion editor in the Collection. The article goes off to a journal for review next week.
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Eleni Epstein & Fashion Journalism
I am working on revising my article about Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni Epstein. It is a biographical piece that I am reworking and adding a section about other overlooked fashion editors. Fashion is one of the four Fs of the women’s pages. I make the argument that these women are worthy of study for the contribution they made to journalism history. They contributed to the social, economic and textile development of their communities. Because these women covered soft news, rather than hard news they have been largely left out of much of journalism history. They deserve to be included just as food journalism is just now earning respect. In…
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Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered
Today I was working on my AEJMC paper, “The Wizard of the Women’s Pages: Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered.” In writing the panel presentation, I came across the letter and speech below between Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre. The exchange indicates the special friendship that Paul had with the women’s page editors during the 1960s.
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Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered
Today I was working on my AEJMC paper, “The Wizard of the Women’s Pages: Raising the Curtain on Paul Myhre, the Man Behind the Penney-Missouri Awards and the Network of Women It Fostered.” In writing the panel presentation, I came across the letter and speech below between Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson and Penney-Missouri Award Director Paul Myhre. The exchange indicates the special friendship that Paul had with the women’s page editors during the 1960s.
