Poynter
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Poynter Post & Excellence in Journalism Talk
I was happy to see the great coverage Poynter gave to the research that Lance and I did about female firsts in newspaper management. Our article “Taking Chances and Making Changes: The Career Paths and Pitfalls of Pioneering Women in Newspaper Management” is in this summer’s issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. We looked at the careers of Gloria Biggs,Carol Sutton and Janet Chusmir. They all began their careers in the women’s pages of newspapers. That is a photo of Carol above. The Huff Post had a great post looking at Carol’s demotion and Jill Abramson’s firing at the New York Times. I will be speaking about issues involving…
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Henrietta Poynter and the St. Petersburg Times/Poynter Institute
On Thursday, we are traveling to St. Petersburg for a three-day workshop at Poynter. It is named for St. Petersburg Times Publisher Nelson Poynter – although I always think that it should also be named for his second wife, Henrietta, who wrote editorials for the newspaper with her husband. Together, they created Congressional Quarterly. She had an impressive background with a 1922 journalism degree from Columbia University and then an editor for Vogue and Vanity Fair before marrying Nelson. She was the first woman to serve on the American Committee of the International Press Institute. A friend described her as “an earthy highbrow … the most unboring person I ever…
