Marjorie Paxson
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Potential Honor for Marjorie Paxson
I have nominated women’s page editor and later Gannett publisher Marjorie Paxson for the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. I just received confirmation that the nomination was received. Marjorie was an amazing journalist and leader. Here is my article about Marjorie. I received a letter from her last week. The committee will look at the nominations in December. My hope is that women’s page editors are included in more journalism halls of fame – so they are a part of public history. (I nominated Roberta Appplegate into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame two years ago. I was thrilled to see her inducted.)
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Marjorie Paxson letter
This is a letter I got from the legendary women’s page editor and later Gannett publisher Marjorie Paxson. I published an article about Marj last Spring. I am working on getting her nominated into a journalism hall of fame.
- Allen Nueharth, Florida Women's Pages, Gloria Biggs, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson
Marie Anderson & Al Neuharth
Gannett newspaper executive Allen Neuharth was a big champion for women journalists and later promoted women’s page editors Gloria Biggs and Marjorie Paxson to publishers. This letter is from Neuharth to Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. It can be found in her papers at the WHMC. I have published articles about Marjorie and Marie.
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Eleanor Hart
I am making plans to go through the Miami Herald’s Eleanor Hart’s papers. She was a columnist from 1954 to 1966. She graduated from Ohio State in 1936. Her papers are at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in Miami. She worked with Marie Anderson, Dorothy Jurney and Marjorie Paxson. Here’s a link to a story that mentions her reporting.
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women’s pages and housewives
The New York Times has a great essay about housewives in the 1950s, focusing on the witty writer, Phyllis McGinley. Here’s a segment: “A liberal arts education is not a tool like a hoe . . . or an electric mixer,” McGinley wrote, dismayed at a world she thought was conspiring to make women feel as though any acquired erudition would be wasted in a life of riffling through recipe cards. “It is a true and precious stone which can glow as wholesomely on a kitchen table as when it is put on exhibition in a jeweler’s window or bartered for bread and butter.” She went on to dismiss the…
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Florida Media Coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment
I’ve received a revise and resubmit on my article about Florida newspaper’s coverage of the Equal Rights Amendment and Sen. Lori Wilson. Sen. Wilson was the only woman in the state senate at the time and was the sponsor of the E.R.A. (She was also the wife of Gannett executive Al Neuharth at the time.) I’m working on the revisions now. Many women’s page journalists supported the ERA. But, in the 1970s, when the final states needed to be ratified, the sections were eliminated. The new sections were often headed by men. For example, Marjorie Paxson lost her job twice.
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