Marie Anderson
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Marie Anderson’s Father
I just came across the photo of a young Judge Robert H. Anderson, Marie’s father. (Marie Anderson was the women’s page editor of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s.) It seems to verify the couple in the earlier post are Marie’s parents. He was a member of the circuit court in Miami. This is the Who’s Who entry for Judge Anderson. Marie is listed as his daughter. This is another biographical entry for the Judge.
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More about Marie Anderson
I have found references to images of Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson in the Special Collections at the University of West Florida. This image is in Marie’s papers at the University of Missouri. I think these might be her parents. Here is proof that Marie was a delegate to the National Women’s Conference in 1977.Here is a slide show of Marie Anderson. This is my earlier post about Marie.
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Marie Anderson letter
These are letters that Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson wrote to angry readers. (They can be found in her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.) Some historians have noted that women’s page journalists had little power at their newspapers but this was not the case for several Florida women’s page editors. Anderson often stood her ground to management, readers and advertisers. Here is my earlier on post on Marie.
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Dorothy Jurney (also shown with Marie Anderson)
Dorothy Jurney was known as the godmother of the transformation of the women’s pages in the nation’s newspapers. Jean Gaddy Wilson, a scholar of journalism, has said that Dorothy Jurney “single-handedly changed American newspapers” by changing the women’s pages. She was included in the Washington Press Club Foundation’s oral history project “Women in Journalism.” My article about Dorothy is being revised for a resubmission to a nation journalism history journal. Much of my information for the article came from her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri. Dorothy was inducted in to the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors’ Hall of Fame. She is…
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Marie Anderson & the Miami Herald
Marie Anderson was a groundbreaking women’s page editor at the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. She worked with some of the best women’s page journalists of the time, including Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney and Marjorie Paxson. She won so many Penney-Missouri Awards, the top recognition for the sections, that she was briefly retired from the competition. For more on Marie Anderson, read my article (along with Lance Speere) in Florida Historical Quarterly, Spring 2007. Anderson, along with other Florida women’s page editors, can be found in my article in a 2006 South Florida History Magazine. Marie’s papers are at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.
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