journalism history
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Clementine Paddleford: First U.S. Food Journalist
I just came across information about Clementine Paddleford – considered America’s food journalist. A book was recently written about her (Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate) and there was a panel about her life at the New School. Here was the description: “Clementine Paddleford was the first American journalist to take food seriously. In her legendary columns for the New York Herald Tribune and This Week Magazine, she pioneered a smart, sassy reporting style that managed to elevate food writing from the dull formulas of home economists to must-read material. Flying around the country, sometimes in a Piper Cub plane,…
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Swearing & excluding women
Today, NPR featured this story about swearing – although completely ignored the question of gender. (Being the one who can use curse words is really an issue of power.) This was something that was an issue for women journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Curse words were a common reason given for excluding women from the newsroom. Detroit and Miami women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate provided this anecdote when she covered the Michigan governor for the Associated Press during World War II:Applegate recalled that while visiting with the reporters, the governor would often mutter “hell” or “damn” under his breath, and then apologized to her. Eventually he said to her,…
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Swearing & excluding women
Today, NPR featured this story about swearing – although completely ignored the question of gender. (Being the one who can use curse words is really an issue of power.) This was something that was an issue for women journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Curse words were a common reason given for excluding women from the newsroom. Detroit and Miami women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate provided this anecdote when she covered the Michigan governor for the Associated Press during World War II:Applegate recalled that while visiting with the reporters, the governor would often mutter “hell” or “damn” under his breath, and then apologized to her. Eventually he said to her,…
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Milwaukee Press Club article digitized
The Wisconsin Magazine of History has digitized the article Lance & I wrote about the fight of Milwaukee journalists (including women’s page editor Aileen Ryan) to join the Milwaukee Press Club: Wilmot Voss, Kimberly; Speere, Lance “Way past deadline: the women’s fight to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club” “In this article, Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere explore the fight by female journalists to enter the male-only Milwaukee Press Club beginning in 1966. Voss and Speere examine how the women’s protests to enter Milwaukee’s Press Club became symbolic of the larger women’s fight for equality occurring across the country in the 1960s. The article also describes some of Milwaukee’s pioneering…
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Milwaukee Press Club article digitized
The Wisconsin Magazine of History has digitized the article Lance & I wrote about the fight of Milwaukee journalists (including women’s page editor Aileen Ryan) to join the Milwaukee Press Club: Wilmot Voss, Kimberly; Speere, Lance “Way past deadline: the women’s fight to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club” “In this article, Kimberly Wilmot Voss and Lance Speere explore the fight by female journalists to enter the male-only Milwaukee Press Club beginning in 1966. Voss and Speere examine how the women’s protests to enter Milwaukee’s Press Club became symbolic of the larger women’s fight for equality occurring across the country in the 1960s. The article also describes some of Milwaukee’s pioneering…
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Grocery store advertising
Watch CBS News Videos Online I am now studying the history of grocery stores. These stores provided much of the advertising for women’s pages in newspapers. Here is an interesting story about the history of grocery stores. The reporter wrote:“Women in particular were freed from the chore of shopping at several locations. ‘Supermarkets played a large role in liberating the woman,’ said Louis Bucklin, professor emeritus of business administration at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. ‘They reduced the amount of time they had to spend on shopping, with fewer trips to the store.’” I am looking to track the impact of food advertising and the content of the food…
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