women's page history
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Raleigh Women’s Page Editor
Came across a women’s page editor from North Carolina: Bette Elliott of the Raleigh Times. She came in a second-place for the 1962 Penney-Missouri Award competition. She also had a local television show. From a service for her life:” A former colleague told of how as the Women’s section editor of The Raleigh Times newspaper, she rang the bell for the Salvation Army in front of a downtown Raleigh ABC store. Everyone was afraid not to give, for fear she would list their names in her column. People also remembered her tall statue and beauty. Her daughter Carmen spoke of how she was abandoned by her husband and the proud…
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Quoted in HuffPost Story
I was happy to be quoted in this HuffPost story about women’s pages.
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Chicago Tribune Society Writer Eleanor Page
I came across a new women’s page figure for my upcoming book: society reporter Eleanor Page. According to her obituary: “At the height of American society reporting after World War II, Mrs. Voysey, who always wrote under her maiden name Eleanor Page, helped establish the criteria that set members of Chicago’s elite apart from those in other cities. She contended one could be admitted into New York society by having money; in the South, with an important family name. In Chicago, she later wrote, only charity work had the power to allow someone to know everyone and go everywhere.” In the book, Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War…
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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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Baltimore Sun: Fun With Sea Food
I tracked down this recipe booklet “Fun With Sea Food” published by the Baltimore Sun in the 1950s. The author is Virginia Roeder who had a background in home economics and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. I am researching more about her but it has been a challenge as she married and changed names several times. She will be included in my upcoming book about women’s page journalism.
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Modern Day Women’s Pages
I was happy to speak with the Poynter Institute about the modern revival of the women’s pages. Here is a link to the story.
