Milwaukee Journal
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Women’s History Month: Day 25 & Aileen Ryan
Day 25 of Women’s History Month features the Milwaukee Journal’s Aileen Ryan – a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women’s page journalist. During her first summer of work in 1921, Ryan attended a meeting to hear Milwaukee Journal Editor Marvin Creager say he was happy to have females on the staff because “women have cleaned up newspaper offices.” Ryan later recalled the statement made her feel as though she had been hired to use a mop. Ryan started under the editorship of women’s page journalist Elizabeth B. Moffet. Moffett had been recruited from the Kansas City Star, where she had pioneered a…
- Aileen Ryan, Constance Daniell, Dorothy Dawe, food journalism, furnishings, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Press Club, Peggy Daum
Our American Journalism Article Officially Out
The article Lance & I wrote about the women’s pages of the Milwaukee Journal has been published. It was great to tell the stories of so many important women – including Peggy Daum, Aileen Ryan and Clarice Rowlands.
- Aileen Ryan, Constance Daniell, journalism history, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Press Club, Peggy Daum
More Than “Rations, Passions, and Fashions”: Re-Examining the Women’s Pages in the Milwaukee Journal
The article Lance & I wrote about the Milwaukee Journal has been published in American Journalism: More Than “Rations, Passions, and Fashions”: Re-Examining the Women’s Pages in the Milwaukee Journal. It is available here. I have several free copies to give away. Please email if interested. We are working on a “Teach the Journal” article to accompany the ascholarship. It will be available online this fall.
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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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Milwaukee Journal Research Acceptance
Excited that the article that Lance & I wrote about the women’s page journalists of the Milwaukee Journal has been accepted for publication in an academic journal. Included in the article are Aileen Ryan and Peggy Daum.
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Day five of Women’s History Month features Clarice Rowlands. Clarice Rowlands was the food editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1950s – an interest that she said started when she was a member of the 4-H Club in high school. A 1936 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she was a society reporter at a Green Bay newspaper from 1937 until 1943 and then joined the Journal. She said she was often asked the question that tends to irritate many food writers: “Does she cook?” Many of these women found that the question undermined their roles as journalists. Rowlands’ response to the question was: “No, I am a reporter…
