Marjorie Paxson
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New Marjorie Paxson Image
Here is a new image of Marjorie Paxson from her time as the women’s page editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin. I am including it in my book, The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community.
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Al Neuharth Has Died
Gannett executive and USA Today founder Al Neuharth died on Friday. He is pictured above with women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney. Neuharth was an advocate for women in journalism. He named women’s page editor Gloria Biggs as the first woman to be a Gannett publisher. Several years later, he named women’s page editor Marjorie Paxson to be a Gannett publisher. Neuharth was married to Florida Senator Lori Wilson in the 1970s. Here is a link to an article I wrote about Wilson and her fight to get the E.R.A. passed in her state.
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Women’s History Month: Marjorie Paxson
In honor of March being Women’s History Month, I will be blogging, pinning and tweeting about a different women’s page editor each day. I thought the best place to start would be with Marjorie Paxson who helped found the National Women and Media Collection. She was a longtime women’s page journalist in Texas and Florida who became the fourth female publisher at Gannett. She worked on the hard news side during World War II and then returned to the women’s pages in peacetime. She worked at women’s pages in Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. She was a good friend of Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney. Here is a link to the…
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- Dorothy Jurney, journalism history, Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, Roberta Applegate
National Women & Media Collection
I was so excited to see this update to the National Women & Media Collection. It includes biographies of several great women’s page editors as well as some images I had never seen before. This is an image of legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney interviewing Imelda Marcos in Malacanang Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines, in 1969. Here is my article in Journalism History about Jurney. I had also never seen this photo of Marjorie Paxson with a giant fish in Florida. Paxson was a women’s page editor in Houston and St. Petersburg, Florida among other places. Here is my article about Paxson. Lastly, I…
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The Importance of Weddings Coverage
I loved this New York Times wedding story from yesterday that is getting a lot of buzz. From the story: “The bride, 97, is keeping her name.” While often overlooked as soft news, wedding stories can have value. They were a key part of the women’s pages for decades. As Chicago Editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon noted: “As we wrote about weddings and births and debutante balls, we learned about the importance of rites and rituals in people’s lives.” And there were journalism lessons in reporting about those rituals in the lives of women. Fort Lauderdale News women’s page editor Edee Greene pointed out that writing up engagement and wedding announcements…
- Betty Ewing, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson, Servicemen's Pier
Marie Anderson & the Servicemen’s Pier
The Veteran’s Day activities yesterday reminded me of some of the work women’s page journalists did stateside during World War II. Some went over to the news side of the newspaper – examples include Betty Ewing, Koky Dishon, Jeanne Voltz, Marjorie Paxson and Dorothy Jurney. Other women were volunteers for the war effort – such as Marie Anderson, pictured above. She oversaw major projects at the Servicemen’s Pier in Miami. Here is a story about her work in a 1943 Miami News story. I wrote about Marie’s work at the Pier in this book chapter about women in the Baby Boomer generation. After the war, Anderson went to work at…
