journalism history
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Happy First Ladies’ Day
Rather than celebrating President’s Day, we are celebrating the First Ladies. The First Ladies were often featured in the women’s pages of newspapers. The above clip features a story about Mrs. Nixon by Miami Herald club editor Roberta Applegate. Here is a link to an interesting post about First Ladies, the State of the Union Address and the women’s pages.
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Great Image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz
I love this great image of Food Editor Jeanne Voltz. She is getting ready to fly with USN Blue Angels, Miami, 1956. I noticed the image on her daughter Jeanne’s Facebook page and I appreciate her letting me use it. In the 1950s, Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald before moving on to the Los Angeles Times in 1960. Here is how she is described in her obituary: “She was one of the first newspaper food editors of the modern era, when the sections were edited by journalists rather than by the advertising department.” There has been an over generalization that food journalism was run by…
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Grocery Stores, Advertising & Food Journalism
Watch CBS News Videos Online I am now studying the history of grocery stores. These stores provided much of the advertising for women’s pages in newspapers. Here is an interesting story about the history of grocery stores. The reporter wrote:“Women in particular were freed from the chore of shopping at several locations. ‘Supermarkets played a large role in liberating the woman,’ said Louis Bucklin, professor emeritus of business administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. ‘They reduced the amount of time they had to spend on shopping, with fewer trips to the store.’” I am looking to track the impact of food advertising and the content of the food…
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Day Seven: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The seventh object that represents the women’s page is a quilt. Most of journalism history considers the content of women’s pages to be soft news. Yet, a closer examination of the women’s sections in the 1950s and 1960s shows more complex content. There was soft news – personality profiles, fashion stories and features. There were also stories about politics, education news and family violence. The women’s page editors created a new kind of news within the social fabric of their communities – a kind of quilted news. Quilts have become recognized as art – largely women’s art – in recent decades. Some credit the counterculture’s arts-and-crafts movement in the 1960s…
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Day Six: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The sixth object representing women’s pages is a cookbook. Most newspapers put out a cookbook at some point. Sometimes the books were a creation of the newspaper’s food editor, such as the Arizona Republic’s Dorothee Polson’s Pot au Feu. Other times, the books were a collection of recipes from readers, such as the Milwaukee Journal’s Peggy Daum’s Best Cook on the Block Cookbook.
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Day Five: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The fifth object that represents the women’s pages is a reporter’s notebook. The women’s page journalist with her reporter’s notebook is Bobbi McCallum. The most amazing reporter’s notebook from a women’s page journalist that I have read was the one that Vivian Castleberry kept the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. It is available at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. Vivian had been at the Trade Center and was waiting for the president to arrive. Word came that a shooting day occurred. Rev. Luther Holcomb began to speak. Vivian wrote of his words, “We are relying upon the faith we possess.” The wife of Henry S. Miller spoke out…
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