Roberta Applegate
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Roberta Applegate and the Miami Herald
Today I am going through some papers of Roberta Applegate that are house in the National Women and Media Collection. I have examined Roberta’s work as a women’s page journalist in Michigan but have not looked as closely at her work at the Miami Herald. She was the club editor for the women’s pages during the 1960s. This was at a time when there hundreds of women’s clubs in Miami. She worked for legendary women’s editor Marie Anderson. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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Cape Canaveral
We had hoped to take Baby Curtis to see the shuttle launch this week but it was scrubbed again. In the early years on the Space Coast, there were many profiles of the astronauts and their crews. One series – featuring the women at Cape Canaveral – ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. The five-part series, featured below, was written by the wonderful Roberta Applegate.
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Cape Canaveral
We had hoped to take Baby Curtis to see the shuttle launch this week but it was scrubbed again. In the early years on the Space Coast, there were many profiles of the astronauts and their crews. One series – featuring the women at Cape Canaveral – ran in the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. The five-part series, featured below, was written by the wonderful Roberta Applegate.
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Swearing & excluding women
Today, NPR featured this story about swearing – although completely ignored the question of gender. (Being the one who can use curse words is really an issue of power.) This was something that was an issue for women journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Curse words were a common reason given for excluding women from the newsroom. Detroit and Miami women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate provided this anecdote when she covered the Michigan governor for the Associated Press during World War II:Applegate recalled that while visiting with the reporters, the governor would often mutter “hell” or “damn” under his breath, and then apologized to her. Eventually he said to her,…
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Swearing & excluding women
Today, NPR featured this story about swearing – although completely ignored the question of gender. (Being the one who can use curse words is really an issue of power.) This was something that was an issue for women journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Curse words were a common reason given for excluding women from the newsroom. Detroit and Miami women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate provided this anecdote when she covered the Michigan governor for the Associated Press during World War II:Applegate recalled that while visiting with the reporters, the governor would often mutter “hell” or “damn” under his breath, and then apologized to her. Eventually he said to her,…
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Dorothy Jurney and Michigan
Yesterday I received this back issue of Michigan History Magazine. The issue features the following letter to the editor in response to my article about women’s page journalist Roberta Applegate. The writer gives kudos to another great Michigan women’s page editor: Dorothy Jurney. (My article featured a photo of Roberta and Dorothy together.) These women were pioneers in redesigning women’s page content. My article about Dorothy comes out this Spring. Here is a link to speech at Roberta’s induction into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
