women's page history
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Vivian Castleberry’s Coverage of JFK in Dallas
The only reporter’s notebook that women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry ever kept was the one she used when she was at the Trade Mart on November 22, 1963. Vivian drove to her office at the Dallas Times Herald early that morning. Her daughter Carol was with her that morning. Carol was going to go to the library and then take a spot along President JFK’s route. She would then take a bus to school. Vivian sent her reporter Val Imm to cover the event at Love Field. Vivian arrived at the Trade Mart and interviewed Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes. She said that she was concerned about the president visiting Dallas.…
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Stories of Washington State Food Editors
Columbia Magazine just accepted my pitch about Washington State food editors. (My 2010 article about women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum was published in Columbia.) I am going to be writing about three of Washington’s food editors: Prudence Penny at the Seattle P-I, Dorothy Neighbors at the Seattle Times and Dorothy Dean at the Spokesman-Review – they are all pen names. What makes this work a challenge was the use of pen names. I want to know who these women actually were. For example, the food editors at the Spokane Spokesman-Review used the pen name “Dorothy Dean” for decades, with several women sharing the continuous byline. The first woman serving in…
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Food Editors Using Pen Names
A common practice of newspaper food writers was to use pen names, sometimes at the request of management because they wanted to preserve the continuity of the columnist; after all, it was expected the female reporter would leave employment once married. Food writers were not the first women at newspapers to use pen names. As other historians have noted, female news reporters began using pen names in the late 1800s “because for a woman to work as a newspaper reporter was considered unsavory and disreputable.” Some of the most famous female journalists of that time were using pen names. Columnist “Dorothy Dix” was really Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, and Elizabeth Cochrane…
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