Roberta Applegate
- Bobbi McCallum, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Koky Dishon, Roberta Applegate, Ruth Ellen Church, women's history, women's page history
Working as a Public Historian
I have been asked why I spend so much time doing research when that work is not considered research by my university. My answer is that I believe in public history. I have written before about having to twice as hard to get tenure because I study regional rather than national figures in journalism history. While it does not feel fair, the women I write about were rarely treated fairly and faced much bigger hurdles than my own. I have the usual peer-review history journal articles that I publicize through social media, especially Academia.edu and Linkedin. My article about food editor Jeanne Voltz has more than 560 page views on…
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Women’s History Month: Roberta Applegate
For the fourth 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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Happy First Ladies’ Day
Rather than celebrating President’s Day, we are celebrating the First Ladies. The First Ladies were often featured in the women’s pages of newspapers. The above clip features a story about Mrs. Nixon by Miami Herald club editor Roberta Applegate. Here is a link to an interesting post about First Ladies, the State of the Union Address and the women’s pages.
- Dorothy Jurney, journalism history, Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, Roberta Applegate
National Women & Media Collection
I was so excited to see this update to the National Women & Media Collection. It includes biographies of several great women’s page editors as well as some images I had never seen before. This is an image of legendary women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney interviewing Imelda Marcos in Malacanang Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines, in 1969. Here is my article in Journalism History about Jurney. I had also never seen this photo of Marjorie Paxson with a giant fish in Florida. Paxson was a women’s page editor in Houston and St. Petersburg, Florida among other places. Here is my article about Paxson. Lastly, I…
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History & Social Media
I recently wrote a newsletter article for Clio – the publication of the History Division of AEJMC. I wrote about the need for mass communication educators to use social media. I made the reference to Twitter and Western Union telegrams – both use short forms of writing. This image is from the papers of Roberta Applegate in the National Women & Media Collection. Roberta was a groundbreaking women’s page journalist in Detroit and Miami in the 1950s.
- Anne Rowe, Edee Greene, Florida Women's Pages, journalism history, Marie Anderson, Roberta Applegate
Talk at Urban Rethink
I enjoyed speaking about Florida women’s page editors and their role in building community at Urban ReThink on Tuesday night. I spoke about Marie Anderson and Roberta Applegate from the Miami Herald; Anne Rowe from the St. Petersburg Times and Edee Greene from the Fort Lauderdale News. A highlight of the experience was speaking with Edee’s grandson Patrick. Here is a link to my PowerPoint from the talk.
