journalism history
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Vivian Castleberry and depression
I am back to working on my book about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. In this article I recently found, Vivian writes about depression. It was a disease she suffered from following her bout with cancer.
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AJHA Awards
Today was a great day for my paper, “Food Journalism or Culinary Anthropology? Re-evaluating Soft News and the Influence of Jeanne Voltz’s Food Section in the Los Angeles Times.” At the American Journalism Historians Association Convention, I won the Maurine Beasley Award for outstanding paper on women’s history. I also won the David Sloan Award for the outstanding faculty paper. I am humbled by the great news.
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AJHA presentation
Tomorrow, Lance and I are leaving for the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Tucson. I am presenting a paper about women’s page journalist and food editor Jeanne Voltz and her coverage in the L.A. Times in the 1960s and early 1970s: “Food Journalism and Culinary Anthropology: Jeanne Voltz and the Food Section in the Los Angeles Times.” Here is the abstract: As society was changing in the 1960s, food editor Jeanne Voltz guided one of the most significant food sections in the country – at the Los Angeles Times. An analysis of her work at the Times, during the heyday of the sections, show she was laying the foundation…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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AJHA presentation
Tomorrow, Lance and I are leaving for the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Tucson. I am presenting a paper about women’s page journalist and food editor Jeanne Voltz and her coverage in the L.A. Times in the 1960s and early 1970s: “Food Journalism and Culinary Anthropology: Jeanne Voltz and the Food Section in the Los Angeles Times.” Here is the abstract: As society was changing in the 1960s, food editor Jeanne Voltz guided one of the most significant food sections in the country – at the Los Angeles Times. An analysis of her work at the Times, during the heyday of the sections, show she was laying the foundation…
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Food Studies Presentation: Ohio Food Editor History
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Women’s Page Editor Mary McCurria
Yesterday, I came across the obituary of Bradenton Herald women’s page editor Mary McCurria: ““She was ahead of her time when it came to women working in the newsroom,” said Gene Page, whose family owned the Bradenton Herald for 50 years. A native of Ellerslie, Ga., Ms. McMurria graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia in journalism and went to work in 1937 as a reporter for the Page Corp.’s Columbus Ledger and Columbus Enquirer. During World War II with most men staffers gone, she became city editor. Hoping a change in climate would help her artist husband Henry’s rheumatoid arthritis, Ms. McMurria moved to Bradenton in 1945…
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Women’s Page coverage of child abuse
In the 1960s, the women’s pages were the first places where the coverage of child abuse could be found. The above story was one of several written by Val Imm that appeared in the the Dallas Times Herald. The series was initiated by editor Vivian Castleberry would was tipped off by a woman at a Dallas medical center who saw injured children coming in. This coverage led to a community-wide discussion of the issue, centers for abuse and later legislation that truly make this a crime.
