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Fashion publicist Ruth Finley
Fashion week began yesterday in New York City. The shows were attended twice a year by newspaper fashion editors – who worked in the women’s pages of newspapers. These writers translated the elaborate runway fashions for their readers back home – such as Eleni Epstein in Washington, D.C., Barbara Cloud in Pittsburgh and Aileen Ryan in Milwaukee. Their lives were made easier by Ruth Finley, who is pictured below. The Wall Street Journal featured an article about Ruth today. Here is a little about her and the calendar she create, which is shown below:“The concept of a fashion-events calendar came in 1943. Ms. Finley, then a 16-year-old reporter for the…
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Food Critic & Ethics
Romensko featured a great post about the food critic at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ethics. Here is a link. Lance and I are researching and writing about ethics and food journalism. This is a great example of how ethics played a bigger part in the coverage of food than previously thought.
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Janet Chusmir publication
I just got the news that my article about Miami Herald editor Janet Chusmir(who began her career as a women’s page journalist) is going to be published. “You Can’t Hug a Newspaper”: Janet Chusmir and the Miami Herald,” will be published this month in the FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians, February 2012. I also learned that the article is a finalist for the Thomas M. Campbell prize for best article. I am also working on an article about Janet and her role as a “first” in female newspaper management.
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Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert
In my work on Pittsburgh fashion editor Barbara Cloud, I came across the name of fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. In an email interview, Cloud remembered about Eleanor Lambert: “She made fashion newsworthy and gave editors access to designers like we never had before.” Thanks to Lambert, Cloud visited the homes of designers. Cloud wrote: “We got good stories and I guess we were courted but I never thought of it like that. I shared all of that with readers. I took them along with me as I covered the scene.” Here are images of Lambert: Here is the link to her obituary. From the article: “Eleanor Lambert, whose tireless promotion…
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recipe testing
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has posted a story about how it tests recipes, following up on the earlier Washington Post story. Here is the story. From the article, answering the question about testing recipes: “Here’s the longer answer: We consistently test recipes from local sources (home cooks, chefs and anyone else) as well as recipes from, say, websites or cookbooks that we have the least suspicion might not work exactly as written. We test some columnists’ recipes – notably, Sandy D’Amato’s for his Kitchen Technician feature in Entrée (mainly to be sure they translate well to a home kitchen). Most newspapers I know test at least some of the recipes…
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Washington Post article on recipe testing
The Washington Post has published an article about food sections and recipe testing. It is available here. The writer did not include anything about the Milwaukee Journal’s food section – which had a testing kitchen for decades. Here is the brief history included in the Washington Post article which excluded the long history of women’s pages: “Perhaps surprising, many of the editors contacted for this story said their recipe-testing budgets have not been targeted for reduction or elimination — at least to their knowledge. What might be more surprising, however, is that some of them had to persuade their bosses to institute recipe testing in the first place. It would…
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A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
