Women in American journalism : a new history /
In this volume, Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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| Summary: | In this volume, Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope of newspapers and journals, transformed women's professional roles, used journalism as a training ground for major literary works, and led breakthroughs in lesbian and alternative presses. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 189 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252033544 (cloth : alk. paper) 025203354X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252075568 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252075560 (pbk. : alk. paper) |