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Women’s History Month: Bobbi McCallum
For day nine of Women’s History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum – a women’s page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award for women’s pages – the Penney-Missouri Award. Her five-part series about young pregnant women, “Unwed Mothers-The Price They Pay,” examined the lives of women facing significant social stigma. She interviewed teens, hippies, career women, and African American women. She told warm yet probing stories of young women whose voices often went unheard. Her work demonstrated what was happening at newspapers across the country in the 1960s-women’s pages were changing. New topics captured women’s attention and their…
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Women’s History Month: Maggie Savoy
On day eight of Women’s History Month, I thought I would look over to the West Coast and feature Maggie Savoy who was the women’s page editor at the Arizona Republic and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s. Maggie was an outspoken feminist who did not live long enough to witness the victories of the Women’s Liberation Movement. In a 1970 article Savoy wrote for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, she took editors to task for not fully explaining the issues central to the women’s movement. She wrote: “Blunt fact: American women are second class citizens. They want a fair shot at the starting line. Like other minority…
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Women’s History Month: Helen Wells
I am continuing with the Miami Herald theme for day 6th of Women’s History Month: society columnist Helen Wells. The photo above is from her 1969 retirement party held at Marie Anderson’s house. A Google News search revealed that she was also a longtime society editor at the Miami News. The above 1952 clip noted that she did club work in Washington D.C. prior to coming to Miami. It also noted that she served as a Gray Lady for the Red Cross during World War II. Here is an interesting online exhibit about the Gray Ladies. Wells died of a fire in her home in Coral Gables in March of…
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Women’s History Month: Eleanor Hart
Today’s post for day five of Women’s History Month is another member of the Miami Herald’s women’s pages: columnist Eleanor Ratelle who wrote under the name “Eleanor Hart.” Eleanor’s papers are at the HistoryMiami Archives. They include several of Eleanor’s scrapbooks with entries from “A Column With Heart.” The advice column ran in the women’s section of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her most direct address to gender roles was in relation to an October 5, 1966 from reader, C.M.R. He identified himself as the husband of a stay-at-home wife with six children. He wrote: “I read the series by Lois Benjamin about the so-called…
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Women’s History Month: Roberta Applegate
For the fourth day of Women’s History Month, I am continuing to focus on Miami Herald women’s page journalists: club editor Roberta Applegate. She highlighted the important work that women’s clubs were doing as Miami grew. She left the Herald in 1964 to become a journalism professor at Kansas State University where she taught about women’s page reporting. Prior to working at the Herald, she was a reporter for the Associated Press in Michigan. A few years ago, I nominated her for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. I was happy that she was accepted. This is me speaking at the induction ceremony for Roberta. Here is my article about…
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Women’s History Month: Marie Anderson
Marie Anderson was a groundbreaking women’s page editor at the Miami Herald. She was mentored by Dorothy Jurney who I blogged about yesterday. In this photo, Marie (wearing the glasses) is speaking with club editor Roberta Applegate. Marie won so many Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) during the 1960s that she was retired from the competition. She was a leader in the women’s page community. Marie was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation’s “Women in Journalism” oral history project. She was beginning to lose her memory and the interview does not provide much detail about her career. Her papers are part of the National Women &…
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