Koky Dishon
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Searching for Koky Dishon images
I am on the lookout for Colleen “Koky” Dishon images. Dishon was an influential women’s page editor in Ohio, Milwaukee and Chicago. She went on to be the first woman on the masthead of the Chicago Tribune. The above image is from the Penney-Missouri Award papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection – my favorite archive. In the photo, she is judging the Awards. I have been frustrated that no one at the Tribune has returned emails or phone calls over the last year in my search for Koky images.
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Colleen “Koky” Dishon’s brother
Above is video of women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon’s brother, Bob Kocher. Bob was very helpful in my research about Koky. He sent me a family history that Koky wrote and video of the memorial for Koky that the Chicago Tribune created. I appreciate his help.
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Colleen “Koky” Dishon’s brother
Above is video of women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon’s brother, Bob Kocher. Bob was very helpful in my research about Koky. He sent me a family history that Koky wrote and video of the memorial for Koky that the Chicago Tribune created. I appreciate his help.
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Colleen “Koky” Dishon
I am working on collecting images for my article on women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon that is now scheduled to run this summer in a Ohio history publication. Koky, who went on to become the first woman on the Chicago Tribune’s masthead, created the WomaNews section in the 1990s – pictured above. It was a revised, modern section that was also controversial. I wrote for the section several times in the 1990s and loved reading it. The section was later eliminated.
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Colleen “Koky” Dishon
I am working on collecting images for my article on women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon that is now scheduled to run this summer in a Ohio history publication. Koky, who went on to become the first woman on the Chicago Tribune’s masthead, created the WomaNews section in the 1990s – pictured above. It was a revised, modern section that was also controversial. I wrote for the section several times in the 1990s and loved reading it. The section was later eliminated.
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The Kentucky Derby & Koky Dishon & Carol Sutton
My women’s page journalists have at least two connections to the Kentucky Derby. The first relates to Jim Squires, pictured here, editor of the Chicago Tribune in the 1980s. He was Koky Dishon’s boss and gave her the freedom to redefine “soft news.” Jim retired from the newspaper to raise race horses and is a race horsing expert, including the Derby, for the Washington Post. Jim’s papers are at Vanderbilt University and include several letters between Jim and Koky. My article about Koky comes out soon in a regional history journal. The second connection is to Carol Sutton, women’s page editor and then managing editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. It…
