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2013 Women, Journalism & History Books
Below are my recommendations for the most interesting 2013 books about women, journalism and history: Tracy Lucht’s Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist Lynn Povich’s The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Released in paperback in 2013. Washington Post Cookbook – the newspaper’s first cookbook.m It includes several recipes from the Post’s first food editor, Elinor Lee. Maurine H. Beasley’s Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence Eileen M. Wirth’s From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism My book: The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. It is available for pre-order now.
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Reviews for The Food Section
Three great reviews for The Food Section have been posted on Amazon and available here. It is available for pre-order now,
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Gossip in the Women’s Pages
I just learned that the book When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in United States History will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. My chapter in the book is “Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Examining and Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s.” In it, I wrote about Vera Glaser who is pictured above. Her political column appeared in women’s pages across the country.
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Death of Ruthe Deskin’s Daughter
I was so sad to learn about the death of Terry Gialketsis, the daughter of Las Vegas journalist Ruthe Deskin. Lance & I met with Terry a few years ago while at UNLV. She was so helpful and shared great information about her mother. Ruthe started her career as a women’s page editor before becoming becoming the assistant to Hank Greenspun at the Las Vegas Sun. She wrote the front page column: Memo to Hank. Our article “Where She Stands: Ruthe Deskin and Her Place in the City of Bright Lights and Bigger Personalities After 50 years at the Las Vegas Sun,” should come out this month.
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The Importance of the San Francisco Chronicle Food Section
The San Francisco Chronicle is wrong to think of re-tooling the food section to make it something different than what readers have long been used to reading. The recent Facebook page devoted to saving the food section is just one example of the kind of backlash the newspaper has been receiving. (Newspaper management has responded that food coverage will remain the same but has not said that the food section will remain.) I have long studied newspaper food sections which began in the women’s pages. Newspaper food sections have long served an important purpose for home cooks and restaurant fans. Readers wrote letters and called the editors on a regular…
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The Future of the San Francisco Food Section?
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A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
