Washington Post
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New Women’s Page Journalist Find
I was happy to find a new women’s page journalist to include in my current book project: Marie McNair of the Washington Post. From her obituary:“Mrs. McNair, like the Post Office of her day, did not let rain nor sleet nor dark of night prevent her from finishing her appointed rounds. On some snowy nights, she had been known to persuade police scout drivers and postal trucks to deliver her to embassy parties when newspaper autos and taxis found the going too rough. But she was not, by her own account, infallible. She once told a Post reporter that she remembered that “it was on my first assignment to cover…
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Modern Day Women’s Page
I was interested to see that the Washington Post is introducing a modern women’s page, The Lily. Here is a story about it. The name “The Lily” is a nod to the first newspaper for and run by women which was established in 1849.