It was announced today that Margaret Sullivan was named the public editor (sometimes known as an ombudsman) at the New York Times. This is the first time a woman will be in that position at the NYT. Likely the first woman at an American newspaper to hold this position was Anne Rowe Goldman at the St. Petersburg Times. She rose to that position after years in the women’s pages. My article about Anne was published in the March 2011 issue of the Florida Conference of Historians Annals.