Journalists
Talking Abut Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Stephanie Gorton
Stephanie Gorton wrote Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America (2020), a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography. She has written for The New Yorker online, Smithsonian online, The Paris Review Daily, and LA Review of Books, among other publications, and been featured on radio shows including…
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Sigrid Schultz, the “New Woman,” and Fanny Fern Fitzwater
Sigrid Schultz always described herself as a newspaperman. She worked in a largely male world, first as a foreign correspondents and later as a war correspondent in World War II. She was proud of her role as the first woman to be a foreign bureau chief for an American newspaper. Schultz, and the small number…
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In which I recommend a newsletter
I recently subscribed to a newsletter that I eagerly read each time it appears in my email in-box.* I am not sure what led me to World War II on Deadline —my guess is that someone linked to an issue on Twitter. Whatever the path, I was immediately hooked. The newsletter, and the website behind…
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