Marjorie Paxson
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Florida Conference of Historians
My article about Edee Greene has been accepted for presentation at the Florida Conference of Historians in February 2009. Edee Greene was the women’s page editor of the Fort Lauderdale News in the 1950s and 1960s. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards and was good friends with fellow Florida women’s page editor Marj Paxson. Here is my earlier post on Marj. I just found the obituary of Edee’s father Henry Nielsen. The obituary of Edee’s brother proved that “Edee” was a nickname for Edith.
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Marjorie Paxson
Marjorie Paxson was a groundbreaking women’s page editor in Texas and Florida, who also covered hard news for the wire sevices during World War II. She went on to be the fourth female publisher in the Gannett newspaper chain. She established the National Women and Media Collection at the University of Missouri – it recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. For more on Marj, read my article (along with Lance Speere) in the 2007-2008 issue of Media History Monographs. I reviewed the National Women and Media Collection in the Spring 2005 issue of the journal Journalism History. My talk at the 20th Anniversary celebration was reprinted in the Spring 2008 Clio…
