Posts Tagged ‘women journalists’
Carolyn Wilson, From Fashion Reporter to War Correspondent
When I was writing Women Warriors I kept stumbling across women I’d never heard of.* I did not expect to have the same experience with women who served as foreign correspondents and/or war correspondents. After all, I’m writing about one particular woman, not a history about women journalists as a whole. And yet, women I’ve…
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Bessie Beatty and The Red Heart of Russia
I was recently digging about in the history of women’s magazines in the early twentieth century when I came across a familiar name: Bessie Beatty. I knew Beatty’s work from her reporting on Russia’s Women’s Battalion of Death, which I wrote about in Women Warriors. At the time, I was totally engrossed in the women…
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“The First Lady of Radio”
Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976) was a writer and broadcast journalist in the 1930s to 1950s. She was so famous that she was known as “The First Lady of Radio”. She started her journalism career as a part-time reporter for her hometown newspaper, the Paris Mercury, in Paris, Missouri, where she covered everything from baby contests…
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