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Central Florida Food Editors Talk
I am looking forward to talking about The Food Section and signing some books at the Orlando Library later this month.
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Excellence In Journalism: Pushing For Parity
A week from today, I will be speaking about women in newspaper management at the SPJ-sponsored Excellence in Journalism conference in Nashville. The invitation developed out of my research about women’s page editors who went in management: Gloria Biggs, Carol Sutton and Janet Chusmir.
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Charlotte Observer Article about The Food Section
I enjoyed today’s story in the Charlotte Observer by Kathleen Purvis about The Food Section. Here is a Storify of other press about The Food Section.
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Media Report To Women Reference
It was a nice surprise to see that the current issue of Media Report To Women featured the great Poynter column about the research on female firsts in newspaper management that Lance & I published this summer in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. I will be speaking about the topic next week in Nashville at the SPJ-sponsored Excellence in Journalism conference.
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When Private Talk Goes Public
Press is beginning for the new book, When Private Talk Goes Public. I wrote a chapter about gossip and the women’s pages of newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s. The book has earned some nice reviews including these below:‘A magnificent and wondrously wide-ranging anthology of articles on 350 years of gossip about politics, power, diplomacy, celebrity, marriage, morals, murder, mayhem, love, and, of course, sex in its multiple variations, When Private Talk Goes Public has something for everyone who cares about, studies, teaches, or reads American history.’ – David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, City University of New York, USA “Brilliantly – and engagingly – these essays…
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Winning Carol DeMasters Service to Food Journalism Award
I am honored to announce that I won the first Carol DeMasters Service to Food Journalism Award from the Association of Food Journalists. Here is a great article about it. Carol was the longtime food editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel. This is one of her press passes. I interviewed her when I was researching The Food Section. The purpose of the award is to recognize an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of food journalism. I am thrilled to be accepting the award next month in Memphis.
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