Lee Hills
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FCH: Jim Bellows, Lee Hills & Al Neuharth
Florida Conference of Historians, 2014 from Kimberly Voss
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The Men Behind the Golden Era of the Women’s Pages
My paper, “The Men Behind the Golden Era of the Florida Women’s Pages: Jim Bellows, Lee Hills & Al Neuharth,” has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians. It will be held in St. Augustine in January 2014. That is Jim pictured above. Here is more about the paper:For decades, the only place for women in journalism was in the women’s pages of newspapers. The “golden era” for the sections was in the 1950s and 1960s. And, the place to be during those decades was Florida. It was due to a mix of talented women journalists and male editors who were willing to change the definition of…
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Miami Herald editor Lee Hills
I just found this photo of Lee Hills who Dorothy Jurney reported to at the Miami Herald in the 1950s. Dorothy later followed Lee to the Detroit Free Press in 1960. He was a champion of improving the content of women’s sections. Here is more about Lee Hills. In this photo, he is speaking at Journalism Week at the Missouri School of Journalism. A building at the School is named for Lee Hills. Several well known women’s page editors graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism including Carol Sutton and Marjorie Paxson.