journalism history
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Society of Professional Journalists
Yesterday I moderated a panel about women and journalism at a regional Society of Professional Journalists conference. Some attendees seemed to be shocked that SPJ did not allow women to be members until 1969. It is important to recognize how many ways the industry discriminated against women and just how recent that it was the women were openly discriminated against. Here is an article Lance and I wrote about the fight to allow women to become members of the Milwaukee Press Club – the oldest press club in the country. Milwaukee women’s page journalists were part of that fight.
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Society of Professional Journalists
Yesterday I moderated a panel about women and journalism at a regional Society of Professional Journalists conference. Some attendees seemed to be shocked that SPJ did not allow women to be members until 1969. It is important to recognize how many ways the industry discriminated against women and just how recent that it was the women were openly discriminated against. Here is an article Lance and I wrote about the fight to allow women to become members of the Milwaukee Press Club – the oldest press club in the country. Milwaukee women’s page journalists were part of that fight.
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Encyclopedia of the Sixties
Today I am working on three entries for the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of the Sixties: the media-generated bra-burning myth, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham and N.O.W. Katherine Graham’s Washington Post is often given credit for transforming women’s pages into modern lifestyle sections. Yet, a closer examination of women’s page in the 1960s shows that numerous newspapers were ahead of the Post – most notably Carol Sutton’s section at the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Encyclopedia of the Sixties
Today I am working on three entries for the ABC-Clio Encyclopedia of the Sixties: the media-generated bra-burning myth, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham and N.O.W. Katherine Graham’s Washington Post is often given credit for transforming women’s pages into modern lifestyle sections. Yet, a closer examination of women’s page in the 1960s shows that numerous newspapers were ahead of the Post – most notably Carol Sutton’s section at the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Journalism History Correction
I recently came across a reference to a photo of food editor Jeanne Voltz in the Los Angeles Times photo files at U.C.L.A. Here is the link. This information is incorrect. Jeanne wasn’t hired by the L.A. Times until 1960.
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Journalism History Correction
I recently came across a reference to a photo of food editor Jeanne Voltz in the Los Angeles Times photo files at U.C.L.A. Here is the link. This information is incorrect. Jeanne wasn’t hired by the L.A. Times until 1960.
