journalism history
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End of a present day women’s page
I was sad to hear about the end of the online women’s page, the Salon’s Broadsheet. Some critics have complained that these female-oriented online publications marginalize women’s news and that topics important to women should be part of the mainstream news. That the same argument that silenced the women’s pages of newspapers in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. In their place came lifestyle and entertainment sections instead. I am writing a response to the end of Broadsheet for the Ms. blog.
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End of a present day women’s page
I was sad to hear about the end of the online women’s page, the Salon’s Broadsheet. Some critics have complained that these female-oriented online publications marginalize women’s news and that topics important to women should be part of the mainstream news. That the same argument that silenced the women’s pages of newspapers in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. In their place came lifestyle and entertainment sections instead. I am writing a response to the end of Broadsheet for the Ms. blog.
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Assassination Attempt
The attempted assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords reminded me of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Dallas Times Herald Vivian Castleberry allowed her seventh-grade daughter, Cathy, to stay home from school to watch the president drive through the city. Cathy had pled with her parents to allow her to skip school. She later noted, that Kennedy was a hero among her peers. They were impressed that Cathy would get to see the president. Cathy helped her mother prepare to meet Jacqueline Kennedy by reading newspaper clips in the car on the way to work. After a visit to a coffee shop, Cathy went to the library to wait for…
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Assassination Attempt
The attempted assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords reminded me of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Dallas Times Herald Vivian Castleberry allowed her seventh-grade daughter, Cathy, to stay home from school to watch the president drive through the city. Cathy had pled with her parents to allow her to skip school. She later noted, that Kennedy was a hero among her peers. They were impressed that Cathy would get to see the president. Cathy helped her mother prepare to meet Jacqueline Kennedy by reading newspaper clips in the car on the way to work. After a visit to a coffee shop, Cathy went to the library to wait for…
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Arizona women’s page editor Elizabeth Shaw
I just noticed this story about Elizabeth Shaw, who was a women’s page editor in Arizona in the 1940s before a successful publishing career. This is what the reporter wrote about Shaw’s work as the women’s page editor at the Arizona Daily Star in the 1940: J.C. Martin, retired Star books editor, said Shaw was ahead of her time as a working mother and a journalist. “I tend to think that good writing began to be valued in newspapers in about the ’50s and ’60s and Liz was there in the 1940s raising the standards of writing.”Martin credits Shaw for subtly changing the mix of stories on the women’s pages.…
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Arizona women’s page editor Elizabeth Shaw
I just noticed this story about Elizabeth Shaw, who was a women’s page editor in Arizona in the 1940s before a successful publishing career. This is what the reporter wrote about Shaw’s work as the women’s page editor at the Arizona Daily Star in the 1940: J.C. Martin, retired Star books editor, said Shaw was ahead of her time as a working mother and a journalist. “I tend to think that good writing began to be valued in newspapers in about the ’50s and ’60s and Liz was there in the 1940s raising the standards of writing.”Martin credits Shaw for subtly changing the mix of stories on the women’s pages.…
