Women and Innovation in Media

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    Frederika Charlotte Riedesel

    German writer, accompanied her husband during the Saratoga Campaign in the American Revolutionary War and kept a journal of the campaign
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    Margaret Fuller

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    Jane Swisshelm

    founded Reconstructionist
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    Lucy Stone

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    Susan B. Anthony

    a weekly newspaper called The Revolution in New York City in 1868
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    Ida Tarbell

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    Dorothy Dix

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    Ida B Wells

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    Jennie Irene Mix

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    Winifred Bonfils ("Annie Laurie"; "Winifred Black")

    one of the "sob sisters"
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    Nellie Bly

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    Marie Manning

    the first newspaper advice column, Dear Beatrice Fairfax, in 1898 (precursor to modern versions such as Dear Abby and Ann Landers)
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    Nina Allender

    artist for The Suffragist
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    Charlotta Bass

    published the California Eagle from 1912 until 1951
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    Frances Perkins

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    Ina Eloise Young

    the first American woman sports editor & the first woman to cover the World Series (then called World's Championship Games; 1908)
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    Eleanor Roosevelt

    syndicated newspaper column
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    Alice Paul

    The Suffragist
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    Henrietta Eleanor Goodnough Deuell ("Peggy Hull")

    an American journalist who covered World War I and World War II; the first female correspondent accredited by the U. S. War Department; covered Russian Civil War
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    Dorothy Thompson

    • an American journalist and radio broadcaster
    • the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s
    • the "First Lady of American Journalism"
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    Ruth Finney Allen

    "front-page journalism"
    covered many important stories in the first half of the century, including the investigations of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills scandals and the subsequent trials that sent a Cabinet member to jail; the long fight in Congress for authorization of the Hoover Dam, and the Sacco‐Vanzetti execution in Boston
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    Agness Underwood

    (sensational) crime reporting
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    Rachel Carson

    science journalism
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    Pauli Murray

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    Hazel Brannon Smith

    the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (for her writing about the Civil Rights Movement in the year of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party)
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    Shirley Chisholm

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    Nina Simone

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    Gloria Steinem

    co-founded the women’s magazine Ms. in 1972
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    Joan Didion

    literary journalism
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    Letty Cottin Pogrebin

    Ms. magazine
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    Frances FitzGerald

    went to Saigon in 1966 and in 1972, published Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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    Ellen Willis

    "cultural reporting"; rock music critic
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez