A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Pages - Hardcover

Mills, Kay

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9780396089322: A Place in the News: From the Women's Pages to the Front Pages

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ISBN 10: 0396089321 ISBN 13: 9780396089322

Publisher: Dodd Mead, 1988

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Based on numerous interviews with reporters, editors, and publishers, this book examines the increased presence of women in the press and their impact on news coverage by the press and relays the stories of the efforts of women to ensure a more balanced coverage of the news

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Book Description:

This unique book combines a brief, comprehensive history of women in the American newspaper business over the last one hundred years with a sharp assessment of their present status. Kay Mills describes how today's women journalists have reached their present positions and argues that the increased presence of women reporters is having an important impact on the kind of news that appears in daily papers.

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A Place in the News uniquely combines a brief, comprehensive history of women in the American newspaper business over the last one hundred years with a sharp assessment of their present status. Having interviewed over one hundred and fifty present and former newspaperwomen from around the country, Kay Mills has produced a highly readable book full of personal stories as well as facts from secondary sources.

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