Journalists – History in the Margins

Talking About Women’s History. A Bunch of Questions and an Answer with Brooke Kroeger

By Pamela | March 4, 2024 |

I am pleased to open this year’s Women’s History Month series with what turned out to be more- than-three questions and an answer with journalist and author Brooke Kroeger, whose most recent book, Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (2003) explores how women have fared in American journalism’s most competitive and highly valued bastions, the…

“From Across the Sea”

By Pamela | October 10, 2023 |

In November , 1933, the Chicago Tribune began running an occasional column titled “From Across the Sea” featuring reported think pieces by correspondents of the Tribune’s Foreign News Service. The column ran on the editorial page along with letters to the editor and other columns such as the whimsical “A Line O’Type or Two.”* Sigrid…

The Dashing Floyd Gibbons

By Pamela | July 21, 2023 |

Floyd Gibbons was one of the twentieth century’s most swashbuckling reporters, complete with a trademark eye patch, worn because he lost an eye in while advancing with the Fifth Marines on the battlefield of Belleau Wood in June 1918. Gibbons began his career as a reporter in Minneapolis, but he gained a national reputation as…