women's page history
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Researching Women’s Page Editor Drue Lytle
Today I got back to writing about Drue Lytle – the women’s page editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. She won numerous Penney-Missouri Awards in the 1960s. Her letters back and forth with Awards’ director Paul Myhre can be found in the Penney-Missouri Awards papers at the NWMC. I also found some great articles about Drue. Clearly, women’s page editors like Drue – with help from Paul – were pushing to change the content of women’s pages. For example, Drue was working to add more medical and health news in her section. I am re-starting an article about Drue although the information gathering has been slow. I hired a researcher several…
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Review of Gossip Book
Happy to read the positive review of the book about gender and gossip, When Private Talk Goes Public in the Journal of American History. My chapters is about the women’s page editors who covered black brides and political news, including Koky Dishon and Vera Glaser.
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My Blog: More than 300,000 page views
Happy moment: More than 300,000 page views on Women’s Page History.
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Death of Jean Sharley Taylor
I was sorry to hear that former women’s page editor Jean Sharley Taylor had died although I liked her obituary which was posted today: “Jean Sharley Taylor — a woman whose talent and persistence earned her a place in cigar-chomping newsrooms where women were often seen as unsuited to the gritty work of real reporting. “I’ve come to appreciate her as a feminist from a generation before feminism was identified,” her son said. When she started as a reporter at the Detroit Free Press in 1950, Taylor literally had no seat in the all-male newsroom. She was given a gluepot, a typewriter and a cubbyhole on another floor. “A new…
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Catherine East & the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
I found some great information in Catherine East (pictured above) in her oral history. In my research, I learned that East learned about the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women from the women’s pages of newspapers.
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Oral History Project: Female Newspaper Food Editors of the 1970s & 1980s
I just received my certificate for completion of the Oral History program at Baylor University. The most common question I get when I am interviewed about The Food Section is will I write a book about the women who came next. I have felt a bit conflicted because most of those women are still alive and can speak for themselves. Instead, I plan to conduct oral histories of women who were food editors in the post-women’s pages years of the 1970s & 1980s. I hope to begin this fall. In addition to my Baylor University class, I am presenting a paper about the oral history project Women in Journalism at…
