See also Women journalists by name and by category and Women printers and publishers before 1800 Wells: prominent civil rights activist whose 1892 editorial on the lynching of three black men earn her popularity; she wrote her autobiography Crusade for Justice in 1928. [43] Women chief editors became fairly common during the 18th century, when the press in Sweden developed, especially since the widow of a male printer or editor normally took over the business of her late spouse: a successful and well known female newspaper editor was Anna Hammar-Rosn, who managed the popular newspaper Hwad Nytt?? Tidskrift fr svensk litteraturvetenskaplig forskning. Pete Hamill: reporter, columnist, editor, memoirist and novelist who, beginning with a job as a reporter at the New York Post in 1960, reported, edited or wrote for most of New York Citys newspapers and many magazines. Of the 10 staff journalists who received the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling, eight were women. Bob Schieffer: a calm, insightful voice since 1969 at CBS News, where he has served as an anchor, as chief Washington correspondent and as host of Face the Nation. Jonathan Schell: a New Yorker staff writer from 1967 to 1987, specializing in matters of war and peace, who wrote the cautionary book The Fate of the Earth. She travelled widely for her work and reported on the Paris Exhibition of 1889. Rachel Maddow: has hosted her own popular, liberal, good-humored prime-time news program on MSNBC since 2008. Phyllis George was the winner of the 1971 Miss America pageant who was invited by CBS to join the network as a sportscaster in 1974. Ron Brownstein: an influential national-affairs reporter and columnist, beginning in the 1980s, mostly for the Los Angeles Times; Brownstein has received multiple awards for his coverage of presidential campaigns. The Los Angeles Times has called Guerrero "the hardest working sports reporter", and the Hispanic Business Journal named her one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America. Joseph Mitchell: a staff writer for the New Yorker from 1938 until his death in 1995, who won acclaim for his off-beat profiles, collected in the book Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories; Mitchell did not publish any major new work after 1964. As journalism became a profession, women were restricted by custom from access to journalism occupations, and faced significant discrimination within the profession. Pauline Kael: an influential film critic for the New Yorker, from 1968 to 1991; Roger Ebert calls her the best writer ever to write about film.. Paul Krugman: a Nobel Prize winner in economics, Krugman has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 1999. [24] In the 1870s, the women's movement started and published papers of their own, with women editors and journalists. H.V. She played an active role in women's suffrage. Harrison Salisbury: won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Soviet Union; New York Times Moscow bureau chief from 1949 to 1954; later covered the Civil Rights movement. Since starting her career in 1995 in Chicago, Bonnie has covered a variety of sports, working as a lead reporter for CBS for NFL and NCAA Men's basketball, and most recently as a host of College Football Live, and regulary substituting as a host for NFL Live and Outside the Lines. Elisabeth Schyen. David Douglas Duncan: a photographer who covered the Korean War and other conflicts. Frederick Wiseman: a cinma vrit filmmaker whose career began with an expose of a state-run mental hospital, Titicut Follies in 1967. Alice Dunnigan: a journalist and civil rights activist, in 1948 she became the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials. And, alas, I fear this list, stretching back to people working in 1912, reflects the difficulty women had obtaining important positions in journalism for the bulk of the last 100 years.". Homer Bigart: who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for the Herald Tribune and then the New York Times, which he joined in 1955; he covered many of the major events of his time, from war to civil rights. Ted Koppel: a television reporter and anchor who started a late-night news show in 1979 that eventually became Nightline. Sam Lacy: a sportswriter and columnist, he campaigned to desegregate Major League Baseball and in 1948 became the first African-American member of the Baseball Writers Association of America. [27] During the French revolution, women editors such as Marguerite Pags-Marinier, Barbe-Therese Marchand, Louise-Flicit de Kralio and Anne Flicit Colombe participated in the political debate. Christopher Hitchens: a prolific journalist with a large vocabulary and no fear of controversy, who wrote many widely discussed books and wrote columns for the Nation and Vanity Fair. Robert Samuelson: a reporter, writer and editor, his columns on business and economics appear in Newsweek and the Washington Post, where he began in 1969. 1880-talets kvinnliga kritiker och exemplet Eva Brag. [45] She was well known in London society and had a long-term relationship with the actor Sir Henry Irving. Contact Us [41] In 1918, Maria Cederschild, first woman editor of a foreign news section, recalled that women reporters were not as controversial or discriminated in the 1880s as they would later become, "when the results of Strindberg's hatred of women made itself known. Steve Coll: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who also served as managing editor at the Washington Post, Coll is now a foreign-policy reporter and blogger for the New Yorker. The full-time faculty breakdown for the Institute is 11 female and 14 male, and both the current and previous directors are women. For almost three decades, this trend continued, and it wasn't until 1975 that a female had a prominent role in network sports broadcasting. The competition between the three nightly newscasts had reached a fever pitch by 1989. Since then, literallyhundreds of women have graced the network airwaves, with varied success. Phyllis R. Blakeley, "HERBERT, MARY ELIZA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. Scripps: built the first newspaper chain at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early decades of the twentieth century; known for empowering local editors; created United Press in 1907. [7], In the period from 2012 through 2016, UNESCO's Director-General denounced the killing of 38 women journalists, representing 7 per cent of all journalists killed. [37], During the 19th century, women participated with articles in the press, especially within the culture sections and a translators, notably Magdalene Thoresen, who has by some been referred to as an early female journalist: from 1856, Marie Colban (18141884) lived in Paris, from where she wrote articles for Morgenbladet and Illustreret Nyhedsblad, for which she can be regarded as the first female foreign correspondent in the Norwegian press. Dave Barry: an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who wrote a popular and widely syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. Geraldo Rivera: his investigation for WABC-TV in 1972 of the abuse of mentally ill patients at the Willowbrook State School eventually led to the institution being shut down; went on to a career as an investigative reporter and talk-show host on network, syndicated and cable television. Edna Buchanan: a police reporter at the Miami Herald, Buchanan won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for crime reporting. Host of the famous Chicago-based tabloid talk-show "The Jerry Springer Show," Jerry Springer was also mayor of . It was the golden era for nightly news and tv journalism in general, and if you grew up in the 1980s, undoubtedly you knew who these iconic news anchors and personalities were. Garry Trudeau: the creator of the Doonesbury cartoon, in 1975 he became the first person to win a Pulitzer Prize for a comic strip. Paul Hume: the music editor at the Washington Post for more than three decades and a radio host, Hume was known for his frankness, famously criticizing the singing of President Trumans daughter, Margaret. Roger Ailes: founding president of Fox News Channel in 1996 and former president of CNBC, who also served as a top media consultant for a number of prominent Republican candidates. Since that time, 23 years ago, no other woman has broadcast play-by-play of an NFL game. Belva Davis: one of the first female African-American television news anchors in the US on KPIX-TV in San Francisco in 1966, Davis news coverage earned her five Emmy Awards. Ben Hecht: a reporter, screenwriter, playwright and novelist, beginning in 1921 he expanded the focus of journalism with impressionistic portraits of non-extraordinary city life for the Chicago Daily News, collected in the book, One Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago. Mary McCarthy: a novelist and critic, McCarthys essays appeared in publications like the Partisan Review, the Nation, the New Republic, Harpers, and the New York Review of Books from the 1940s through the 1970s. Victor Berger: editor of the prominent German-language socialist newspaper the Milwaukee Leader from 1911 to 1929. [25], Traditionally, the first female journalist has been referred to as Fredrika Runeberg, who wrote poems and articles in Helsingfors Morgonblad under the name of her spouse Johan Ludvig Runeberg in the 1830s. Jimmy Breslin: street-wise, storytelling New York City columnist for the citys tabloids over many decades in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. [46], After studying medicine at Edinburgh, Florence Fenwick Miller decided to follow a different course and turned to lecturing and writing instead. [49] Prior to Swisshelm, Horace Greeley had employed another noteworthy woman in journalism, Margaret Fuller, who covered international news. Joseph A. Barry: contributed his smart, vivid reports out of Paris from the 1950s through the 1980s, in books and for the New York Post, Newsweek and many other publications. He is the anchor of the 6 p.m. news. Alicia Patterson: a journalist and magazine writer, Patterson was the founder, in 1940, and publisher of Newsday on Long Island, which became one of the fastest-growing post-war newspapers. In the case of NYU's 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years, culled from more than 300 nominees plus write-ins in a vote by thefaculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU and an Honorary Committee of alumni, that final ratio is 78 men to 22 women. Of the seven biggest newspapers in Stockholm, six had female co-workers prior to 1900, and when Swedish Union of Journalists was founded in 1901, women were included from the start. 2016. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006 . [23], In Denmark, women became editors early on by inheriting papers form their spouses, the earliest examples being Sophie Morsing, who inherited Wochenliche Zeitung from her husband in 1658 and managed the paper as editor, and Catherine Hake, who inherited the paper Europische Wochentliche Zeitung as widow the following year as far as it is known, though, these women did not write in their papers.[24]. Mal Goode: a news correspondent and radio host, hired by ABC in 1962 as Americas first African-American network television reporter. [45], One of the first British war correspondents was the writer Lady Florence Dixie who reported on the First Boer War, 18801881, as field correspondent for The Morning Post. I. F. Stone: an investigative journalist who published his own newsletter, I. F. Stones Weekly, from 1953 to 1967. From John Bolaris to Larry Mendte and from Lisa Thomas-Laurie to Renee Chenault-Fattah, Philadelphia's media landscape has been shaped by . Originally hired as the White House correspondent for ABC, he went on to cover huge stories for the network including the Vietnam War and the Watergate Scandal. Ed Bradley. Rick Brown, "The Emergence of Females as Professional Journalists," HistoryReference.org. Weegee: the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig a prominent photojournalist who focused on New Yorks Lower East Side in the 1930s and 1940s. This award-winning journalist was born on June 22, 1941, in Philidelphia. Jrgensen: Da kvinderne blev journalister. Vincent Sheean: a journalist and early crusader against fascism who covered the Spanish Civil War for the Herald Tribune and wrote the memoir Personal History. Susan Sontag: an essayist, novelist and preeminent intellectual, among her many influential writings was Notes on Camp, published in 1964; a human-rights activist, she wrote about the plight of Bosnia for the Nation in 1995 and even moved to Sarajevo to call further attention to that plight. Unity, for example, an organization of journalists of color, has released in response a seed list of accomplished journalists with diverse backgrounds. Samlaren. Edith Eyde: also known by her pen name Lisa Ben, Eyde created the first lesbian publication, Vice Versa, in the late 1940s, helping to pioneer the LGBT movement. Anchors: Brokaw, Jennings,Rather and the Evening News. Hentet 16. He was enraged that the news was being cut to make room for sports. Ring Lardner: a writer and sports columnist, Lardner was known for his satirical coverage of sports and other subjects in Chicago Examiner and Chicago Tribune, where he began writing a syndicated column in 1913. Nancy Dickerson: a radio and television newswoman and documentary producer who was CBSs first female correspondent in 1960 and then covered the White House for NBC News. Jillian Barberie John Beard (news anchor) Ross Becker Rod Bernsen Angela Black (news anchor) Asha Blake Bill Bonds Lisa Breckenridge Tom Brokaw Marc Brown (journalist) C Cher Calvin Jim Castillo Stan Chambers Sophia Choi Connie Chung Nick Clooney Fritz Coleman Joel Connable Erin Coscarelli Ann Curry D Peter Daut Christine Devine When he died suddenly in 1885, Emily inherited his position and continued in the role until 1907. [2], In 2018, a global support organization called The Coalition For Women In Journalism was formed to address the challenges women journalists face across different countries in the world. Rush Limbaugh: began his national, top-rated, hugely influential, conservative radio talk show in 1988. The first woman in Denmark who published articles in Danish papers was the writer Charlotte Baden, who occasionally participated in the weekly MorgenPost from 1786 to 1793. Roberts left ESPN to become the co-host of Good Morning America in 2005. After a year, NBC News president Reuven Frank felt that the dual-host show was unsuccessful and replaced Brokaw with a single anchor. Lowell Thomas: a radio broadcaster who rose to fame with his multimedia lectures on Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas later appeared regularly on NBC and CBS Radio, delivered the first regular television newscast in the US, and was for a time, in the middle of the twentieth century, perhaps the best-known journalist in America. [24] An important pioneer was Loulou Lassen, employed at the Politiken in 1910, the first female career journalist and a pioneer female journalist within science, also arguably the first nationally well known woman in the profession. Alex Blumberg: producer for the radio and television versions of This American Life who won the 2008 George Polk Award in Radio Reporting along with Adam Davidson for their explanation of the financial crisis entitled The Giant Pool of Money.. USC Annenberg School for Communication, Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) Database. Langston Hughes: a poet and playwright, Hughes also wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Defender from 1942 to 1962. In 1999, Guerrero was hired by the Fox Network, where she hosted and participated in a variety of shows. [89][90] In 2006, she accepted a position as chief pop-music critic at the Los Angeles Times, where she succeeded Robert Hilburn. Jane Kramer: a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1964, writing mostly from Europe. Pat Oliphant: the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, Oliphant won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. A noted example of this development was Synnve Bellander, editor of the women's section "Hus och hem" at Svenska Dagbladet in 193259. [10] In 2016, the Council of Europes Committee of Ministers adopted recommendation CM/Rec(2016)4 on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors, in particular noting the gender-specific threats that many journalists face and calling for urgent, resolute and systematic responses. Paul E. Schindler, Jr., "Women in Journalism Movies" (2003), available at. Ben Bradlee: executive editor at the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991, who supervised the papers revelatory investigation of the Watergate scandal. James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.: popular pundit who began writing the column A Conservative View in 1964, before joining the program 60 Minutes as a commentator. [28], In 1816, Therese Huber became an editor of the Morgenblatt fr gebildete Stnde, one of the main literary and cultural journals of the era. Midgette was the "first woman to cover classical music in the entire history of the paper". Louella Parsons: a pioneering and influential Hollywood gossip columnist and radio host, her influential columns reached one in four American households in the 1930s. Miller currently co-anchors weekdays for FOX 2 News at 6 p.m and is an anchor for Fox2 NewsEdge at 10:00 p.m. She joined FOX 2 in October 2002. Henry Hampton: an award-winning filmmaker, Hampton made many films that dealt with social justice and inequality in America, including Eyes on the Prize about the civil-rights movement. Seymour Hersh: a long-time investigative reporter, specializing is national security issues, who earned acclaim for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the massacre by American soldiers at My Lai in Vietnam in 1968, as well as his 2004 reports about American mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib. [42] During the 18th century, many periodicals for, about, and likely also by women were published, but as women normally published under pseudonym, the can seldom be identified: one of the few identified ones being Catharina Ahlgren, who edited the typical women's periodical De nymodiga fruntimren (Modern Women) in 1773. Harris, Janet, Nick Mosdell, and James Griffiths. Dallas Townsend: a broadcast journalist who wrote and anchored the CBS World News Roundup on radio from the 1950s into the 1980s and stayed at the network for 44 years. Gay Talese: a literary journalist; author of the renowned 1966 Esquire profile, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and of many thoroughly reported, gracefully written books. Peggy Hull Deuell: covered World War I as the first female war correspondent accredited by the US government; later a respected columnist. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe, and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip.
