Miami Herald
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Miami Herald editor Lee Hills
I just found this photo of Lee Hills who Dorothy Jurney reported to at the Miami Herald in the 1950s. Dorothy later followed Lee to the Detroit Free Press in 1960. He was a champion of improving the content of women’s sections. Here is more about Lee Hills. In this photo, he is speaking at Journalism Week at the Missouri School of Journalism. A building at the School is named for Lee Hills. Several well known women’s page editors graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism including Carol Sutton and Marjorie Paxson.
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Roberta Applegate articles
I just found these articles by Miami Herald women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate in the Florida Heritage Collection. The clip is in the papers of Gov. C. Farris Bryant scrapbook, folder 11, item 2. This is an earlier post on Roberta. She was a “first” several times in journalism before becoming a journalism professor at Kansas State in the 1960s.
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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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Jeanne Voltz in Miami
I am working on an article about food editor Jeanne Voltz. I will focus on her time in Los Angeles. This page is from Voltz’s time in the women’s page at the Miami Herald. Notice the headshot of Voltz. The food editor was often a local celebrity.
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Jeanne Voltz interview
Jeanne Voltz was a groundbreaking food journalist. On Friday I spoke with Jeanne Voltz’s daughter for my work on Votlz’s time at the Los Angeles Times. It was wonderful to speak to someone who knew so many of the great women I have researched: Bobbi Applegate, Marie Anderson, Helen Muir, Dorothy Jurney and Marj Paxson. (I’m rather certain that Voltz worked with Maggie Savoy while at the Times.)
