journalism history
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1970 White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities
Here is a story about the White House marking Women’s History Month with a 50-year progress report. According to stories, this was the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of women’ since 1963.” The reporting in this story is incorrect. The White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities also issued a report in 1970. According to the Nixon Library:“In January 1969, Richard Nixon took the oath of office as President. At one of President Nixon’s early press conferences, Ms. Vera Glaser stood amid a forest of male colleagues, raised her strong, clear voice, and asked: “Mr. President, since you’ve been inaugurated, you have made approximately 200 presidential…
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1970 White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities
Here is a story about the White House marking Women’s History Month with a 50-year progress report. According to stories, this was the “first comprehensive federal report on the status of women’ since 1963.” The reporting in this story is incorrect. The White House Task Force on Women’s Rights and Responsibilities also issued a report in 1970. According to the Nixon Library:“In January 1969, Richard Nixon took the oath of office as President. At one of President Nixon’s early press conferences, Ms. Vera Glaser stood amid a forest of male colleagues, raised her strong, clear voice, and asked: “Mr. President, since you’ve been inaugurated, you have made approximately 200 presidential…
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Feminism and Vivian Castleberry
Of all the women’s editors I have studied, the most outspoken feminist was Vivian Castleberry. She said recently: “I entered the feminist movement before there was a feminist movement. I pushed, prodded and prevailed in moving what was a traditional women’s section to become a bellwether for the reporting of issues significant to women and the family – abortion, child abuse, custody, women and legal concerns, family and spousal abuse, violence and on and on.”
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Feminism & the Women’s Pages
This week as part of women’s history month, I will be blogging about the role of feminism and the women’s pages. It is a complicated relationship. The women’s pages were a place for strong female voices – some of whom were outspoken supporters of the Women’s Liberation Movement and others who were not self described “feminists” but believers in the same causes. The difficult part for many of these women is that leaders such as Gloria Steinem lobbied for the demise of the sections. Publishers did eliminate the sections and many women’s page editors lost their jobs. This happened to Marjorie Paxson twice. Steinem later reversed herself in terms of…
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Feminism & the Women’s Pages
This week as part of women’s history month, I will be blogging about the role of feminism and the women’s pages. It is a complicated relationship. The women’s pages were a place for strong female voices – some of whom were outspoken supporters of the Women’s Liberation Movement and others who were not self described “feminists” but believers in the same causes. The difficult part for many of these women is that leaders such as Gloria Steinem lobbied for the demise of the sections. Publishers did eliminate the sections and many women’s page editors lost their jobs. This happened to Marjorie Paxson twice. Steinem later reversed herself in terms of…
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More on the history of food journalism
I am currently reading the book, Appetite City which is a culinary history of New York City. Included in the book is the story of Craig Claiborne – the longtime food editor and critic at the New York Times beginning in the 1950s. (He took over from Jane Nickerson who wrote about food news in rationing and then post-World War II era.) This is the author’s take: “From scratch, Claiborne created serious newspaper food journalism and elevated food to the status of news. This innovation coincided with big changes in consumer journalism. Editors gradually woke up to the fact that readers cared just as much about soft subjects like home…
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