journalism history
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Journalist Mary Ann Grossman
I really enjoyed this article about Mary Ann Grossman who has spent 50 years at St. Paul Pioneer Press – many of those years as the women’s page editor. This was my favorite part:“Years later, Grossmann found herself defending the Women’s Department and the society it covered. “In the 1960s and ’70s, the next generation of women didn’t want anything to do with the women’s section. They all wanted to work for the city desk,” she said. “I always told them that we climbed on the shoulders of our sisters who came before us; don’t ever sneer at those women. And those women, through their charity balls and fundraisers, built…
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Fales Library & Papers of Cecily Brownstone
This week I received some copies from the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The Library is building a collection related to food. I had ordered copies from the papers of Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. Here is more about her career. What I received were letters from Jeanne Voltz (who was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s) and Jane Nickerson (who was the food editor at the New York Times and the Lakeland Ledger). My favorite part was the note from Jane’s daughter who I think I might have tracked…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Fales Library & Papers of Cecily Brownstone
This week I received some copies from the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU. The Library is building a collection related to food. I had ordered copies from the papers of Cecily Brownstone – the longtime food writer for the Associated Press. Here is more about her career. What I received were letters from Jeanne Voltz (who was the food editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and the Los Angeles Times in the 1960s) and Jane Nickerson (who was the food editor at the New York Times and the Lakeland Ledger). My favorite part was the note from Jane’s daughter who I think I might have tracked…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Cooking Up a Storm
I just started reading this great cookbook, Cooking Up a Storm. Here is the NYT review of the book. I like this description:“THE notion of keeping a file of recipes clipped from a newspaper seems a quaint but fading pursuit. Still, those flimsy reflections of the way a family, and a community, cooks have a value beyond the dishes themselves. That lesson was never clearer than after Hurricane Katrina, when 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. Among the household items whose loss was felt most painfully were recipe collections. About two months after the storm, Judy Walker, the food editor of The Times-Picayune, got back to the business of…
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Cooking Up a Storm
I just started reading this great cookbook, Cooking Up a Storm. Here is the NYT review of the book. I like this description:“THE notion of keeping a file of recipes clipped from a newspaper seems a quaint but fading pursuit. Still, those flimsy reflections of the way a family, and a community, cooks have a value beyond the dishes themselves. That lesson was never clearer than after Hurricane Katrina, when 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded. Among the household items whose loss was felt most painfully were recipe collections. About two months after the storm, Judy Walker, the food editor of The Times-Picayune, got back to the business of…
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AEJMC papers
I have submitted two papers to AEJMC today. One of the papers continues my work in the area of food journalism, focusing on ethics. The second paper looks at women’s page journalists who rose through the ranks to newspaper management – three female “firsts.”
