Maggie Savoy
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Fashion Coverage at the Arizona Republic
Love these fashion pages from the Arizona Republic – overseen by women’s page editor Maggie Savoy.
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Women’s History Month: Day 19 & Maggie Savoy
Sad to read about the passing of legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin. He was the best man at the wedding of newspaper editor Jim Bellows and women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. Maggie was an outspoken feminist who did not live long enough to witness the victories of the Women’s Liberation Movement. In a 1970 article Savoy wrote for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, she took editors to task for not fully explaining the issues central to the women’s movement. She wrote: “Blunt fact: American women are second class citizens. They want a fair shot at the starting line. Like other minority groups – they are the fighting victims of stereotyping,…
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AEJMC: Talking About Women’s Involvement in ASNE & APME
We had a great time at the AEJMC Conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Lance & I presented the poster “Crusaders, Not Subordinates: How Women’s Page Editors Worked to Change the Gender Climate Within APME and ASNE.” In the paper, we analyzed the work of women’s page editors Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Maggie Savoy. These women fought through the 1960s and early 1970s to improve the workplace for women journalists.
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Twenty-five Years Later, Arizona Knows About Maggie Savoy
I was so excited to get an email from columnist Karina Bland last week. As part of the 125th anniversary of the Arizona Republic, she was writing about late women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. We still lived in St. Louis when I started researching Maggie’s life and work – more than a decade ago. I was familiar with her name – she wrote letters back and forth to Marjorie Paxson, Paul Myhre and Edee Greene. I knew she won several Penney-Missouri Awards and had given several important speeches. Other than her letters (found in the National Women & Media Collection – created by Paxson’s funding), I had a difficult time…
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Fashion Coverage at the Arizona Republic
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Great Article About Maggie Savoy
I was thrilled to read this wonderful column about Arizona women’s page editor Maggie Savoy. Here is some of what came from my interview with the columnist:“When I got her on the phone, Voss was between semesters at the University of Central Florida-Orlando, where she’s an associate journalism professor, and happy to talk. There’s a saying, “Well-behaved women don’t make history,” but Voss thinks they do. She spent six years piecing together Savoy’s story for a paper she published in 2009 called “Forgotten Feminist.” Savoy didn’t want to alienate readers uncomfortable with feminist issues. So along with ideas for potluck dinners and women’s club activities, she served up stories about…
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Celebrating Archival Research & Re-examining Women’s History
Lance and I went to a wonderful talk at the University of Tampa last Friday. Kacy Tillman presented “The Epistolary Salon: Female Letter-Writing during the American Revolution.” She argued that writing letters was a way for the 18th century American female to engage in the American Revolution at a time when they could not fight, vote or legislate. I found it interesting how much of the material in the letters sounded like journalism. Her talk was also a reminder that women’s history and the role of women in the public sphere is more complex than previous historians have written. Kacy described some wonderful finds in archives such as notes in…
