journalism history
- Allen Nueharth, Dorothy Jurney, Florida food, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jim Bellows, journalism history, Lee Hills
FCH: Jim Bellows, Lee Hills & Al Neuharth
Florida Conference of Historians, 2014 from Kimberly Voss
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Ruthe Deskin Article is Out
I am happy to report that the article Lance & I wrote about Ruthe Deskin is finally out. We got a copy over the weekend. “Where She Stands: Ruthe Deskin and the Las Vegas Sun” is in the 2012 issue Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Ruthe Deskin was an influential Las Vegas journalist. After working as a women’s page journalist in Reno, she came to the Las Vegas Sun in June 1954 as the Sunday Editor. She remained at the newspaper for decades. Much of that time she served as an assistant to the flamboyant publisher Hank Greenspun. She did a little of everything in this position, including a regular column.…
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2013 Women, Journalism & History Books
Below are my recommendations for the most interesting 2013 books about women, journalism and history: Tracy Lucht’s Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist Lynn Povich’s The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Released in paperback in 2013. Washington Post Cookbook – the newspaper’s first cookbook.m It includes several recipes from the Post’s first food editor, Elinor Lee. Maurine H. Beasley’s Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence Eileen M. Wirth’s From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism My book: The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. It is available for pre-order now.
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The Importance of the San Francisco Chronicle Food Section
The San Francisco Chronicle is wrong to think of re-tooling the food section to make it something different than what readers have long been used to reading. The recent Facebook page devoted to saving the food section is just one example of the kind of backlash the newspaper has been receiving. (Newspaper management has responded that food coverage will remain the same but has not said that the food section will remain.) I have long studied newspaper food sections which began in the women’s pages. Newspaper food sections have long served an important purpose for home cooks and restaurant fans. Readers wrote letters and called the editors on a regular…
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Food Studies: The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s
My paper “The Culinary Journalists of the 1950s: An Examination of the Women Who Explained the News of Food” has been accepted for the 2014 Food Studies Conference. The paper answers the question: Who were these women who covered the food beat at newspapers in the 1950s? Many false assumptions have been made about these food editors as being simple as best and at worst, as being unethical. The truth is that most editors (almost all female) were trained journalists and/or home economists. Yet, at various times these women have found themselves either marginalized or under attack. This paper seeks to clarify what was newspaper food journalism by looking at…
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Jeanne Voltz Images
Jeanne Voltz images were sent to me from her daughter Jeanne. They will be a great addition to my upcoming book, The Food Section.
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