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Women’s Page Journalists at the Boston Globe
This is one of the few books about newspapers I have found that address women’s pages. I am also hoping it addresses advice columns as the Boston Globe had one of the most popular columns – Confidential Chat.
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Death of Roxcy Bolton
I was sad to read about the death of Roxcy Bolton who worked closely with Miami Herald women’s page editor Marie Anderson. Here is her NYT obituary. I wrote about Roxcy for the Ms Magazine blog and We’re History. I also presented a paper about Bolton at the meeting of the Florida Historical Society.
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Boston Globe’s Confidential Chat Study
I just received this interesting study about the long-running advice column in the Boston Globe, “Confidential Chat.” This research looked at columns in 1900, 1930 and 1970. It was interesting to read about how questions and answers changed over the years. I previously looked at advice columns in this book chapter and in an entry in the The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia. Advice columns typically ran in the women’s pages of newspapers. The columns will be a part of my upcoming book about women’s page journalism.
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Women’s Page Journalist Ruth Millett
I came across a new women’s page journalist to study: Ruth Linwood Millett. Her papers are at TCU. This is her bio from the school’s website: “Ruth Linwood Millett was born February 10, 1912 to Ralph and Alice Millett in Dallas, Texas. The family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Ralph Millett, was a columnist and editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar. After graduating from the University of Iowa, Millett became dean of women at Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville. She eventually moved to New York City to follow in her father’s footsteps and pursue a career in journalism. Millett soon began writing two syndicated columns, Mind Your Manners and…
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Chicago Tribune 1965 Women’s Pages
Great to see this cover of a 1965 Chicago Tribune women’s page on Instagram. Legendary women’s page editor Colleen “Koky” Dishon would have created this section – one of many she founded at the Tribune.
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My Article in Historiography of Mass Communication
In honor of pioneering woman in newspaper management Irene Nolan’s death, I wrote about the women who came after the “firsts.” (In Nolan’s case, she became a managing editor after Carol Sutton.) I wrote about Nolan and the need to study those who came after the firsts in the current issue of the Historiography of Mass Communication.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
