women's page history
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Al Neuharth Has Died
Gannett executive and USA Today founder Al Neuharth died on Friday. He is pictured above with women’s page editor Dorothy Jurney. Neuharth was an advocate for women in journalism. He named women’s page editor Gloria Biggs as the first woman to be a Gannett publisher. Several years later, he named women’s page editor Marjorie Paxson to be a Gannett publisher. Neuharth was married to Florida Senator Lori Wilson in the 1970s. Here is a link to an article I wrote about Wilson and her fight to get the E.R.A. passed in her state.
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Billie O’Day Has Died
I learned yesterday that Billie O’Day has died. She was the longtime women’s page editor at the Miami News and won several Penney-Missouri Awards. The image above is from a hotel room in Missouri where she and the Miami Herald’s Marie Anderson came to speak at the workshops that were part of the Awards. She loved music and sports. Here is a link to a previous post about Billie’s music career. Here is a link to a post about her interest in football.
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Women’s Pages & Florida Food History
Lance are going to hear my favorite Florida historian tonight – Gary Mormino. He is going to speak about one of my favorite topics – the history of food in Florida. The event is being held at the Orange County History Center. Florida newspapers have had some great food editors over the years. Jeanne Voltz was the food editor at the Miami Herald during the 1950s and traveled the state looking for food stories. After being the first food editor at the New York Times, Jane Nickerson went on to be the food editor at the Lakeland Ledger. Ruth Gray was the food editor at the St. Petersburg Times who…
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Who Says We Can’t Cook?
I recently came across this 1955 cookbook “Who Says We Can’t Cook” that was put together by the Women’s National Press Club. The members noted that the book was not a defense of their culinary talents but rather a fundraising venture to rent space for a clubhouse. A story by the journalists accompanied each set of recipes. Henrietta Poynter who was then editor of Congressional Quarterly contributed recipes for “Heavenly Hamburger” and “Cheese Wafers.” She explained: “I learned to cook at about 14 when my mother went on a three-month speaking tour for suffrage and left me to keep house. Whatever I saved out of the budget was mine, so…
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Happy Birthday to Vivian Castleberry
Happy birthday to Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Here is how Vivian was described in the documentary Trailblazing Texas Women: “An extremely bright, articulate woman, her close-cropped gray hair, pearls and suit reminiscent of the Kennedy era, Vivian Castleberry sips her cup of tea and tells her stories with a sardonic sense of humor and the same dry wit she deployed in print to blast those that treated her as “the little woman” journalist. Vivian knew from day one that she wanted to be a writer. She attended college on her own dime and states that“I never deviated a jot or a piddle, I went straight to being a…
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My Talk at Duke University
Here is a link to my talk at Duke University. It’s called “Robin Morgan & Marie Anderson: Women’s Pages and the Women’s Liberation Movement.” Marie Anderson was the longtime women’s page editor at the Miami Herald – and an alum of Duke University. I will be at Duke University to go through the papers of feminist Robin Morgan – pictured above. I am curious about her interactions with women’s page journalists.
