journalism history
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Recognizing pioneering food journalists
I just received this 1979 book in the mail: The Women’s Book of World Records and Achievements. In it, the author recognizes three pioneering newspaper food journalists: Marian Burros (Washington Post), Peggy Daum (Milwaukee Journal) and Camille Stagg (Chicago Sun-Times). They are highlighted for their serious take on food. Also recognized in the book are two significant women’s page journalists. First was Carol Sutton for her role as the first female managing editor of a metro daily and Dorothy Jurney for being the first female board member of APME.
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Recognizing pioneering food journalists
I just received this 1979 book in the mail: The Women’s Book of World Records and Achievements. In it, the author recognizes three pioneering newspaper food journalists: Marian Burros (Washington Post), Peggy Daum (Milwaukee Journal) and Camille Stagg (Chicago Sun-Times). They are highlighted for their serious take on food. Also recognized in the book are two significant women’s page journalists. First was Carol Sutton for her role as the first female managing editor of a metro daily and Dorothy Jurney for being the first female board member of APME.
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Milwaukee Journal furnishings editor Lois Hagen
I am researching the career of Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She put herself through university at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Lois worked as a journalist, at Time, with the Associated Press and for the bulk of her career at the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women, being the first woman to return to the Journal after having a child, having a successful career and a family. The above in-house ad from 1953 demonstrates a trend that I have seen in…
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Milwaukee Journal furnishings editor Lois Hagen
I am researching the career of Milwaukee Journal furnishing reporter Lois Hagen. According to this article: Lois was born in Westby, Wisconsin in 1918. She put herself through university at a time when it was unusual for a woman to do something other than earn a teaching certificate. Lois worked as a journalist, at Time, with the Associated Press and for the bulk of her career at the Milwaukee Journal. She set new standards for women, being the first woman to return to the Journal after having a child, having a successful career and a family. The above in-house ad from 1953 demonstrates a trend that I have seen in…
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Wedding News
There has been quite an outcry about this New York Times wedding story that ran on Sunday. Wedding news was a large part of women’s pages – and at many newspapers, that is where social change occurred. In the 1950s, Colleen “Koky” Dishon changed the practice of running large bride photos of prominent families in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Instead, the size of all photos were equal. From the day Vivian Castleberry started working at the Dallas Times Herald in the 1950s, she said that she intended to publish pictures of African-American brides, although it was against policy. When she asked for permission to publish photos of African-American brides on a…
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Clarice Rowlands
Yesterday’s response to a post about Clarice Rowlands inspired me to look back at the Milwaukee Journal women’s page and food journalist in the 1940s through 1960s. After a search of her work, I found a brief profile of Rowlands. She was a native of Cambria, Wisconsin. She earned a degree in journalism in 1936 from the University of Wisconsin. She worked at the Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1937 to 1943. In June 1944, she joined the women’s pages as a general assignment reporter and later worked on the society desk. She eventually made her way to the food section. She won numerous awards for food writing – the Vesta…
