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Food Journalism Talk at the Matheson History Museum
I am looking forward to talking about newspaper food editors at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville on Saturday. It is based on the material I taught in my Florida food journalism history class at Rollins College this month.
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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…
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Women’s Page Political Columnist Malvina Stephenson
I was excited to find this oral history with Washington, DC political columnist Malvina Stephenson. Her papers are part of the National Women & Media Collection. Malvina Stephenson teamed with veteran Washington journalist Vera Glaser on election night in 1968. They snuck into Nixon’s inner sanctum on the 35th floor of Waldorf Towers while hundreds of other reporters were stuck in the pressroom on the third floor of the hotel. By the time they were spotted by Nixon’s director of public relations, they had already conducted numerous exclusive interviews and had found a copy of the campaign director’s confidential guide to election returns. They then broke the story. It was…
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Food History Talks at Rollins College in June
I appreciate Orlando Sentinel Food Editor Heather McPherson including a blurb about my Rollins College talks about Florida food history – including Florida food editors Dorothy Chapman, Grace Barr, Jeanne Voltz and Jane Nickerson. Enrollment information is available here.
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FHS: Roxcy Bolton Presentation
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Florida Historical Society: Florida Feminist Roxcy Bolton
I am excited to present a paper about Florida feminist Roxcy Bolton this weekend at the 2015 Florida Historical Society’s Annual Meeting in St. Augustine. Roxcy was a good friend of Marie Anderson, the longtime and award-winning women’s page editor of the Miami Herald. Here is my blog post about Roxcy for Ms Magazine & here is my blog post for We’re History.
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A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
