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AEJMC: Talking About Women’s Involvement in ASNE & APME
We had a great time at the AEJMC Conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Lance & I presented the poster “Crusaders, Not Subordinates: How Women’s Page Editors Worked to Change the Gender Climate Within APME and ASNE.” In the paper, we analyzed the work of women’s page editors Dorothy Jurney, Marie Anderson and Maggie Savoy. These women fought through the 1960s and early 1970s to improve the workplace for women journalists.
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AEJMC Talk About Politics & Women’s Page Journalists
AEJMC.2015.Politics from Kimberly Voss
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Vera Glaser: Women’s Page Journalist & Political Columnist
I have been working on my women and politics book – focusing today on Vera Glaser. Glaser began her career in magazine, newspaper, and radio journalism before turning to governmental public relations work in the 1950s, including overseeing the women’s division for the Republican National Committee. Glaser became a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance in the 1960s. Then she became the Washington Bureau Chief for the Alliance in the 1960s. Her articles typically ran in the women’s pages. Glaser became a partner of Malvina Stephenson on election night in 1968. The two women snuck into Richard Nixon’s inner sanctum on the 35th floor of Waldorf Towers while hundreds…
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Oral History Association Conference Program is Out
The schedule for the fall Oral History Association Conference is out. I am on the panel: Couriers of Justice: Print and Radio Activists and Social ChangeThu, October 15, 8:30 to 10:00am, Tampa Marriott Waterside, 3, Florida Salon 1 The panel is described as: In these papers, oral histories of people who founded newspapers, news pages, bookstores, and radio stations by and for marginalized groups yield insights into unexplored roles in social justice movements. My paper is: “Social Change & Correcting Collective Memory: Women’s Page Editors in the Washington Press Club Foundation’s Oral History Project.” I will be speaking about the Women in Journalism oral history project. This project will also…
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Matheson History Museum Talk
I was thrilled to see that the Gainesville Sun included my talk in the list of things to do in Gainesville. I loved my time at the Matheson. There was a good crowd and several great questions. Here is a great column about my talk.
- Florida food, Florida history, Florida newspapers, Florida Women's Pages, Jane Nickerson, Jeanne Voltz
Women’s Page Column in Gainesville Sun
I was happy to have my column about Florida food and the women’s pages of newspapers in the Gainesville Sun today. I am looking forward to speaking about the topic at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville tomorrow afternoon.
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
