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Women’s History Month, Day 9 & Marie Anderson
Marie Anderson was a groundbreaking women’s page editor at the Miami Herald. She was mentored by Dorothy Jurney who I blogged about yesterday. In this photo, Marie (wearing the glasses) is speaking with club editor Roberta Applegate. Marie won so many Penney-Missouri Awards (the top recognition for women’s pages) during the 1960s that she was retired from the competition. She was a leader in the women’s page community. Marie was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation’s “Women in Journalism” oral history project. She was beginning to lose her memory and the interview does not provide much detail about her career. Her papers are part of the National Women &…
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Women’s History Month, Day 8: Dorothy Jurney
Day eight of Women’s History Month features Dorothy Jurney who was known as the godmother of the women’s pages. She is pictured above without glasses (The woman in the glasses is Marie Anderson – I will blog about her tomorrow.) Jurney was a groundbreaking women’s page editor who encouraged other editors to improve the content of their sections. Dorothy worked on the hard news side during World War II and as forced back to the women’s pages in peacetime. In 1950, she revolutionized the women’s pages of the Miami Herald and mentored Marie Anderson to take her place. Below are some resources about Jurney: Her papers are at the National…
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Women’s History Month, Day 7: Roberta Applegate
For the seventh day of Women’s History Month, I am continuing to focus on Miami Herald women’s page journalists: club editor Roberta Applegate. She highlighted the important work that women’s clubs were doing as Miami grew. She left the Herald in 1964 to become a journalism professor at Kansas State University where she taught about women’s page reporting. Prior to working at the Herald, she was a reporter for the Associated Press in Michigan. A few years ago, I nominated her for the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. I was happy that she was accepted. This is me speaking at the induction ceremony for Roberta. Here is my article about…
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Writing the Miami Food Book
Excited to be back at work on the Miami food book. It’s great to look at the work of Miami Herald writers Marie Anderson and Marjorie Paxson – who is pictured above.
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AEJMC Talk: Women & Regional Journalism History
Had a great time talking about women’ page editors from Milwaukee and Miami at the Women and Regional Journalism History panel at AEJMC. Lance moderated the panel so our boys concentrated on their iPads.
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Miami Food & Helen Muir’s Tea Parties
In writing the Miami food book, I am including a section on Helen Muir’s famous tea parties. She was a writer for the women’s section of the Miami News and the Miami Herald and she also was a book editor. Women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney are included in this photo.
