women's history
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Women’s Page Journalists at the Boston Globe
This is one of the few books about newspapers I have found that address women’s pages. I am also hoping it addresses advice columns as the Boston Globe had one of the most popular columns – Confidential Chat.
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Women’s Page Journalist Ruth Millett
I came across a new women’s page journalist to study: Ruth Linwood Millett. Her papers are at TCU. This is her bio from the school’s website: “Ruth Linwood Millett was born February 10, 1912 to Ralph and Alice Millett in Dallas, Texas. The family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Ralph Millett, was a columnist and editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Millett became dean of women at Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville. She eventually moved to New York City to follow in her father’s footsteps and pursue a career in journalism. Millett soon began writing two syndicated columns, Mind Your Manners and…
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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 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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Women’s History Month: Day 14 & Women Politicking Politely Book
I am excited to share the cover of my upcoming book, Women Politicking Politely. It comes out next month. This book includes the relatively unknown stories of six important women who laid the foundation for improving women’s equality in the U.S. While they largely worked behind the scenes, they made a significant impact. In the group are two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes along with four female journalists who also occasionally worked within government to advance women’s rights during the 1950s through the 1970s. Much of it centers on Washington, D.C., as well as the more unlikely cities of Madison, Wisconsin and Miami, Florida. It includes the…
