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Florida Women’s Page Journalism Publications
I was inspired to put together a list of my publications about Florida women’s page journalists from the 1950’s and 1960’s after re-reading the book Orange Journalism which overlooked Florida women’s pages. The photo above is of the women’s page department of the Miami Herald in the 1950’s. It includes Marie Anderson, Robert Applegate and Dorothy Jurney.
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Gossip & the Women’s Pages
The book When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in American History is now up on Amazon. My chapter is: “Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Examining and Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s.” In it, I examine the role gossip played in the coverage of society news, brides and politics in the women’s pages. The book comes out in August.
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Great Column About The Food Section
I enjoyed this great column about The Food Section which ran today.
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Poynter Post & Excellence in Journalism Talk
I was happy to see the great coverage Poynter gave to the research that Lance and I did about female firsts in newspaper management. Our article “Taking Chances and Making Changes: The Career Paths and Pitfalls of Pioneering Women in Newspaper Management” is in this summer’s issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. We looked at the careers of Gloria Biggs,Carol Sutton and Janet Chusmir. They all began their careers in the women’s pages of newspapers. That is a photo of Carol above. The Huff Post had a great post looking at Carol’s demotion and Jill Abramson’s firing at the New York Times. I will be speaking about issues involving…
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Washington Food Editors & Pen Names
I am working on a history magazine article about three of the 1950s era food editors in Washington State who all wrote under pen names: Dorothy Dean (Spokesman-Review), Dorothy Neighbors (Seattle Times) and Prudence Penny (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). My goal is to tell the stories of the women behind the pen names. For example, this is Joan Conner McDonnell who wrote for the Dorothy Neighbors department. She raised eight children and went back to the newspaper each time. Her daughter Mimi said: “I am proud to say that my mother was a feminist before the phrase was coined, as well as after it was used as a pejorative label.” Another longtime…
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Food Editor Alice Partridge
Thanks to the Informal Association of Cookbook Collectors & Foodists, I learned about food editor Alice Partridge. Here is some information from her obituary beginning with her World War II experiences: “She came to Buffalo to work for the Associated Press and starting as assistant day editor, became night editor, swing editor for the correspondent and acting correspondent in charge of the bureau. She was always proud that she was the first woman to be in charge of an AP office anywhere in the U.S. “The scarcity of men in wartime gave women a foot in the door,” she once said. After her marriage to Charles Alden Partridge, a veteran…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
