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Women’s History Month: Day 26 & Janet Chusmir
Day 24 of Women’s History Month features Janet Chusmir. Janet Chusmir was a women’s page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She died suddenly in 1990. According to her obituary, “During her tenure she pushed the Herald to be more sensitive to ethnic and racial concerns, to think about how the events of the day affected real human beings, to publish a newspaper that, in her words, ‘connects with the community.’ As the newspaper’s first executive editor, she also brought diversity to the newsroom by creating new opportunities for women and minorities.” This is from her…
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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…
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Women’s History Month: Day 24 & Eleanor Hart
Today’s post for day 24 of Women’s History Month is another member of the Miami Herald’s women’s pages: columnist Eleanor Ratelle who wrote under the name “Eleanor Hart.” Eleanor’s papers are at the HistoryMiami Archives. They include several of Eleanor’s scrapbooks with entries from “A Column With Heart.” The advice column ran in the women’s section of the Miami Herald in the 1950s and 1960s. One of her most direct address to gender roles was in relation to an October 5, 1966 from reader, C.M.R. He identified himself as the husband of a stay-at-home wife with six children. He wrote: “I read the series by Lois Benjamin about the so-called…
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Women’s History Month: Day 23 & Miami Herald Women’s Pages
For day 23 of Women’s History Month: Miami Herald women’s pages – considered the best in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. I love this image which would have been taken in the 1950s. This photo includes Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Jeanne Voltz.
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Women’s History Month: Day 22 & Koky Dishon
Day 22 of Women’s History Month features Colleen “Koky” Dishon. She started her career covering hard news for the Associated Press during World War II. After the war, she was a progressive women’s page editor in Columbus, Ohio, and Milwaukee before moving on to Chicago. She was hired by the Chicago Tribune in 1975 and in 1982, Dishon was named associate editor, becoming the first woman listed in the Chicago Tribune’s masthead. At the Tribune, Dishon created 17 special sections that were often quickly copied at newspapers across the country. In the words of Tribune Managing Editor Ann Marie Lipinski: “Whether you have ever worked for Koky, or ever heard…
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Women’s History Month: Day 21 & Bobbi McCallum
For day 21 of Women’s History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum – a women’s page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award for women’s pages – the Penney-Missouri Award. Her five-part series about young pregnant women, “Unwed Mothers-The Price They Pay,” examined the lives of women facing significant social stigma. She interviewed teens, hippies, career women, and African American women. She told warm yet probing stories of young women whose voices often went unheard. Her work demonstrated what was happening at newspapers across the country in the 1960s-women’s pages were changing. New topics captured women’s attention and their…
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