Posts Tagged ‘women journalists’
Rebecca Harding Davis: Making Things Real
One of the joys of writing this blog is that when things are going well one post leads to another idea, another story, another question. It feels like my list of possible topics bubbles and fizzes* and I can hardly decide which story to tell you next.** This is one of the times when the…
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Reporting from Weimar Berlin: More Than Just the Nazis
Last Saturday, I spoke about The Dragon From Chicago to an enthusiastic audience at History Camp 2024 in Boston.* At the end, a member of the audience stopped me and asked if Sigrid Schultz reported on anything besides politics. The short answer is yes, indeed she did. In fact, at one point, Joseph Pierson, then…
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More Stories of Women Journalists
I’ve heard from a number of you that you enjoyed the stories of women foreign correspondents that I posted over the last two months. Some of you shared your own experiences as journalists in the 1970s and 1980s–remarkably similar to those of women reporters in the 1930s and 1940s, alas. More than one of you…
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