Koky Dishon
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Chicago Tribune 1965 Women’s Pages
Great to see this cover of a 1965 Chicago Tribune women’s page on Instagram. Legendary women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon would have created this section – one of many she founded at the Tribune.
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Women’s History Month: Day 22 & Koky Dishon
Day 22 of Women’s History Month features Colleen “Koky” Dishon. She started her career covering hard news for the Associated Press during World War II. After the war, she was a progressive women’s page editor in Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee before moving on to Chicago. She was hired by the Chicago Tribune in 1975 and in 1982, Dishon was named associate editor, becoming the first woman listed in the Chicago Tribune’s masthead. At the Tribune, Dishon created 17 special sections that were often quickly copied at newspapers across the country. In the words of Tribune Managing Editor Ann Marie Lipinski: “Whether you have ever worked for Koky, or ever heard…
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Review of Gossip Book
Happy to read the positive review of the book about gender and gossip, When Private Talk Goes Public in the Journal of American History. My chapters is about the women’s page editors who covered black brides and political news, including Koky Dishon and Vera Glaser.
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Book Review: When Private Talk Goes Public
I was happy to see this review of When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. From New Books in American Studies:“Across a series of twelve essays, When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) examines the important and understudied role gossip has played in American history. Whether fashioned as “rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, [or] dirt,” gossip in its many forms is a central, if often discounted feature of American life. Kathleen A. Feeley and Jennifer A. Frost’s compilation spans five centuries, exploring gossip from the early colonial period through its modern reinvention…
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Ms Blog Post about Lifestyle Journalism
I am proud of my latest post for the Ms Magazine blog about the history of lifestyle journalism that highlights Marie Sauer (pictured above), Colleen “Koky” Dishon and Anne Rowe.
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When Private Talk Goes Public
Press is beginning for the new book, When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about gossip and the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. The book has earned some nice reviews including these below:‘A magnificent and wondrously wide-ranging anthology of articles on 350 years of gossip about politics, power, diplomacy, celebrity, marriage, morals, murder, mayhem, love, and, of course, sex in its multiple variations, When Private Talk Goes Public has something for everyone who cares about, studies, teaches, or reads American history.’ – David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, City University of New York, USA “Brilliantly – and engagingly – these essays…
