journalism history
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Women’s Pages & Florida Food History
Lance are going to hear my favorite Florida historian tonight – Gary Mormino. He is going to speak about one of my favorite topics – the history of food in Florida. The event is being held at the Orange County History Center. Florida newspapers have had some great food editors over the years. Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald during the 1950s and traveled the state looking for food stories. After being the first food editor at the New York Times, Jane Nickerson went on to be the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger. Ruth Gray was the food editor at the St. Petersburg Times who…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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History of Sugar
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to hear the wonderful talk “America’s Sweet Tooth” about the history of sugar by food historian Francine Segan. It was a great mix of facts and anecdotes, along with some interesting ads. It really helped to confirm many of the areas I have researched for my book about the history of newspaper food editors. When it came to sugar, several of the newspaper food editors noted that readers never seemed to tire of recipes for cakes. The New York Herald Tribune food editor Clementine Paddleford helped her home cooks deal with the challenges of World War II and the limits on sugar. She encouraged her…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s History Month: Janet Chusmir
Day 31 of Women’s History Month features the Miami Herald’s Janet Chusmir. She went from women’s page editor to executive editor. For years, women in newspaper management had few role models. If they were mentored it was by a man. Many of these managers were hard-hitting, tough-talking men. Those first female leaders rarely had families – there was no career path. Then came Janet Chusmir. She was the exception. After earning a journalism degree and raising a family, she entered the workforce. After a few years as a reporter, she rose through the ranks to become the executive editor of the Miami Herald. She achieved success before dying suddenly of…
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Women’s History Month: Vera Glaser
Day 30 of Women’s History month features Vera Glaser – a Washington, DC-based wire services reporter whose work typically ran in the women’s pages in the 1960s. She made a significant difference in the coverage of the women’s liberation movement. Vera Glaser was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She was interested in journalism in high school. On the weekends she would visit the newsrooms of the local newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Globe-Democrat. She graduated from high school first in her class. That position typically meant a scholarship to Washington University. Instead, the honor went to a male who had only been at the school…
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Women’s History Month: Anne Rowe Goldman
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Anne Rowe Goldman from the St. Pete Times. A New Jersey native, Anne Rowe moved to St. Petersburg at a young age. Three days after she graduated from St. Petersburg High School, she began working at the library of the St. Petersburg Times. It was the 1950s and she was only 17 years old. During the next 12 years, she was a copy editor, women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Times and then women’s editor of the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. She won three Penney-Missouri Awards – the top national recognition for women’s pages. In 1966, she was promoted to the Times as…
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Women’s History Month: Aileen Ryan
Day 18 of Women’s History Month features the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a…
