journalism history
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Day Four: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
Wine glasses represent the women’s page for day four. While these journalists took on hard news topics like child abuse, pay inequity and discrimination, they also liked to have fun. In this oral history, longtime women’s page editor Marjorie Paxson spoke about parties at the home of the St. Pete Times’ food editor Ruth Gray. The image above is of Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson and Miami News women’s page editor Billie O’Day. They are in a Missouri hotel room during the Penney-Missouri Awards’ workshop. Note all the liquor bottles on the counter.
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Day Three: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
For day three of Women’s Page History in 7 Objects – the item is white gloves. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was expected that the women’s page journalist would wear white gloves when out on assignment. Dallas women’s page journalist Vivian Castleberry said she never went anywhere without a reporter’s notebook and white gloves. She told me that even the members of the Garden Club would wear white gloves at groundbreaking ceremonies. Here is a link to a documentary about Vivian that I was happy to be a part of. Above is an image of trailblazing women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney wearing gloves – seated next to Miami Herald…
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Day Two: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
Day Two of Women’s Page History in Seven Object – is the telephone. The above phone was a Christmas present this year. It was found in an antique store in Cocoa Beach. The women’s page reporter on the phone is Bobbi McCallum. She was a journalist in Seattle who died at age 25. There is a scholarship still given in her memory. The image above can be found in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer collection at the Museum of History & Industry. Here is a link to my story about Bobbi.
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Day One: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
I just read about this cool history project – Seattle History in 25 Objects. In that spirit, I am blogging about seven objects in women’s page history for the next week. Today, it is the typewriter. This typewriter sits in my home office. Above is Vivian Castleberry at her typewriter. Vivian was the longtime women’s page editor at the Dallas Times Herald and a regular Penney-Missouri Award winner. Here is an article I wrote about Vivian. Here is a documentary about Vivian that aired on PBS.
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Food Editor Virginia Heffington Fights with Liberace
In doing some research about newspaper food editor Virginia Heffington, I came across this funny clip about a fight she had with Liberace. According to the article, Heffington said: “I think we should forget the story because you’re a better piano player than you are a cook. Your beef stroganoff tastes more like canned beef stew.” Newspaper food editors often interviewed celebrities about their cooking.
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- Dorothy Jurney, journalism history, Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, Roberta Applegate
National Women & Media Collection
I was so excited to see this update to the National Women & Media Collection. It includes biographies of several great women’s page editors as well as some images I had never seen before. This is an image of legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney interviewing Imelda Marcos in Malacanang Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines, in 1969. Here is my article in Journalism History about Jurney. I had also never seen this photo of Marjorie Paxson with a giant fish in Florida. Paxson was a women’s page editor in Houston and St. Petersburg, Florida among other places. Here is my article about Paxson. Lastly, I…
