journalism history

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    Editing at the beach

    We spent yesterday at the beach. Curtis slept while I did the final proof on my article about Louisville women’s page editor (and later managing editor) Carol Sutton – it will be out later this month in American Journalism. I also started reading the book, A Big Life in Advertising. It is the story of one of the first female advertising executives in the 1950s and 1960s. Here is a chapter from the book. I plan to explore the interaction of women’s page editorial content and the advertising in the sections. I am also curious about how these “firsts” handled their new positions – especially if they had children.

  • Jim Bellows,  journalism history,  Mary Ann Dolan

    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…

  • Jim Bellows,  journalism history,  Mary Ann Dolan

    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…

  • Arlene Alligood,  Florida Women's Pages,  journalism history

    Women’s Page Editor Arlene Alligood

    I am just beginning to collect information about 1968 Penney-Missouri Award-winning women’s page editor Arlene Alligood. She spent most of the 1960s working at the St. Petersburg Times and the Evening-Independent. While at the sister newspapers, she would have worked with Anne Rowe Goldman and Gloria Biggs. Here is one of her articles. Her Penney-Missouri Award was for her work at the Suffolk Sun in New York. She was a founding editor of the newspaper which began publication on November 21, 1966. In January of 1968, she joined the women’s page staff at the Washington Post. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida. Here is…

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