Twentieth Century
Lady Hay Drummond-Hay : Around the World in a Flying Machine
Grace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (1895-1946) was a British journalist who wrote for the Hearst papers. She made her name with a series of articles about her experiences as one of the passengers on the first transatlantic flight of a civilian passenger zeppelin in 1928.* The following year, she was the first woman to travel around…
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Thérèse Bonney: “Photofighter”
Photographer Thérèse Bonney was already in Europe when World War II began. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she sent thousands of pictures of France back to the United States through her syndication service, the Bonney Service, including spreads on European modernism and on American expatriates in Paris. By her account, she reached 150 newspapers, including…
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Dorothy Fuldheim: An Exception to (All) The Rules
Women reporters faced a new kind of journalism after World War II. The long-standing prejudice against women newscasters in radio* was even more pronounced in the newly developing world of television—and would remain so for decades.** There is always an exception. Dorothy Fuldheim (1893-1989), a retired schoolteacher who was born the same year as Sigrid…
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