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Women's History Month: Day 21 & Bobbi McCallum
For day 21 of Women's History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum - a women's page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award...
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Women's History Month: Day 22 & Koky Dishon
Day 22 of Women's History Month features Colleen "Koky" Dishon. She started her career covering hard news for the Associated Press during World War II. After the war, she was a progressive women's page...
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Women's History Month: Day 23 & Miami Herald Women's Pages
For day 23 of Women's History Month: Miami Herald women's pages - considered the best in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. I love this image which would have been taken in the 1950s.This photo...
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Women's History Month: Day 25 & Aileen Ryan
Day 25 of Women's History Month features the Milwaukee Journal's Aileen Ryan - a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner. Each day this week will feature a Milwaukee Journal women's page...
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Women's History Month: Day 26 & Janet Chusmir
Day 24 of Women's History Month features Janet Chusmir.Janet Chusmir was a women's page journalist at the Miami Herald in the late 1960s who rose to the position of Executive Editor at the Herald. She...
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Women's History Month: Day 29 & Betty Preston Oiler
Day 29 of Women's History Month - featuring Betty Preston. She was a women's page editor at the Glendale News-Press in California.Betty Preston Oiler went from an award-winning women's page editor to a...
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Women's History Month: Day 24 & Eleanor Hart
Today's post for day 24 of Women's History Month is another member of the Miami Herald's women's pages: columnist Eleanor Ratelle who wrote under the name "Eleanor Hart."Eleanor's papers are at the...
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Women's History Month: Day 30 and Eleni Epstein
Day 30 of Women's History Month features Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She was one of the most noticeable Washington, D.C., voices in translating fashion news in the post-World War II...
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Women's History Month: Day 31 & Ruth Ellen Church
On the final day of Women's History Month for 2017, I am featuring Ruth Ellen Church, the food editor of the Chicago Tribune who wrote under the pen name of Mary Meade for many years. She was the food...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference
We had a great time at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference this past weekend at Daytona Beach - out third conference in 4 weeks. I spoke about her cookbook, Cross Creek Cookery, which is...
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Newspaper Mention of my Roxcy Bolton Research
Great to see a newspaper mention of my research about Roxcy Bolton, a Florida icon.From the article:"Many of Roxcy's missions in advocacy began with a phone call to her home in Coral Gables. One time,...
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The Women Politicking Politely is Out!
Happy to announce that Women Politicking Politely is now out - books arrived today.It tells the story of six important women - several of whom were women's page journalists: Marie Anderson, Dorothy...
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Quilt Columns in the Newspaper
I was excited to find this book, Women of Design, about the history of quilt columns in the women's pages of newspapers. It includes the stories of many interesting women - all from Kansas. I will...
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Quilt Journalist & Artist Edna Marie Dunn
I found this great biography about Edna Marie Dunn who illustrated the quilt column that ran in the women's pages of the Kansas City Star.
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FIU: Women in Communication
I was happy to be part of the FIU Women in Communication: Breaking the Barrier conference in Miami. I spoke about my new book, Janet Chusmir and Gloria Biggs.I will be presenting the paper at AEJMC in...
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Chicago Encyclopedia of Food
Excited to learn that the Chicago Encyclopedia of Food will be out this fall. I wrote the entry about longtime Chicago Tribune food editor Ruth Ellen Church.
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My Article in Historiography of Mass Communication
In honor of pioneering woman in newspaper management Irene Nolan's death, I wrote about the women who came after the "firsts." (In Nolan's case, she became a managing editor after Carol Sutton.)I wrote...
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Chicago Tribune 1965 Women's Pages
Great to see this cover of a 1965 Chicago Tribune women's page on Instagram. Legendary women's page editor Colleen "Koky" Dishon would have created this section - one of many she founded at the Tribune.
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Women's Page Journalist Ruth Millett
I came across a new women's page journalist to study: Ruth Linwood Millett. Her papers are at TCU. This is her bio from the school's website:"Ruth Linwood Millett was born February 10, 1912 to Ralph...
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Boston Globe's Confidential Chat Study
I just received this interesting study about the long-running advice column in the Boston Globe, "Confidential Chat." This research looked at columns in 1900, 1930 and 1970. It was interesting to read...
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