journalism history
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Film Critic Judith Crist Has Died
Pioneering film critic Judith Crist has died. She is considered one of the first woman to become a full-time critic at a major U.S. newspaper and was among the first reviewers of her time to gain a national following. She worked for the legendary Jim Bellows while at the NY Herald Tribune in the 1960s. Here is a story about that time:“She became famous [infamous} for her scathing review of Spender’s Mountain, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara, being shown at Radio City Music Hall. Crist wrote: “A Film that for sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety makes the nudie shows at the Rialyo look like Walter Disney productions.Radio City…
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Elvis & Anne Rowe in Florida
Today, the Florida Historical Society featured the above photo on its Facebook page in celebration of Elvis performing in St. Petersburg in 1956. It was during that visit that Elvis was interviewed by St. Petersburg Times women’s page reporter Anne Rowe. Here is the resulting story. The interview was mentioned in her obituary.
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The St. Petersburg Times, Anne Rowe and DAY
I am finishing up a paper about the elimination of the women’s pages and the introduction of a newsfeature section at the St. Petersburg Times in 1969. It was overseen by Anne Rowe – pictured above. (Her work is often overshadowed by Ben Bradlee’s work creating a Style section at the Washington Post which predated the change at the Times by a few months.) It was the beginning of change for women in journalism and Rowe deserves more credit. This is how the paper begins: It was April 1964 and five young journalists from St. Petersburg were gathered in a hotel room on the Gulf Beaches. Known as the…
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Remembering Edee Greene
I posted this video about Edee Greene – women’s page editor at the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1960s – on YouTube a few years ago. Last week someone posted the following under the video: “Thank you so much for this. I knew Edee- she as a major influence in my life- mentored my writing career and was a very close and dear friend of my mother’s.from the Fort Lauderdale News.”Edee was one of my favorite subjects to write about. She was smart, witty and kind. She won several Penney-Missouri Awards over the years.
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Marie Anderson’s Papers Are Indexed
Elizabeth, the wonderful archivist at the Historical Society of Missouri, recently informed me that the papers of Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson have been indexed. They can be found in the National Women & Media Collection. I was happy to get the news – Marie saved everything and there is a lot of valuable material about women’s pages. (Marie is the one seated in the photo above. Roberta Applegate is the one standing.) My article about Marie Anderson was published in Spring 2007.
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Beverley Morales Presentation From the Florida Conference of Historians
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