Women journalists, editors, and others involved in writing and communicating the news. Highlights of notable newswomen.
Barbara Walters, the first woman to anchor an American network evening news program, is profiled in this biography sketch.
Daisy Bates, a newspaper publisher with her husband, was a key figure in integrating Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Erma Bombeck biography - a profile of Erma Bombeck, humor columnist.
Fallaci was known for her interviews with Henry Kissinger -- she got him to say that he fancied himself a cowboy and to call the Vietnam War "useless" -- and with other world leaders including the Ayatollah Khomeini, Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Willy Brandt, Walter Cronkite, the Shah of Iran, Golda Meir, Mu'ammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, Deng Xiaoping, General Giap, and Yasser Arafat.
Quotes by Ellen Goodman - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Katharine Graham, one of the 20th century's most powerful women, was president and publisher of The Washington Post, leading it through interesting times including the publication of the Pentagon Papers against the government's wishes, and the tough investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal of Woodward and Bernstein.
Quotes by Katharine Graham - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Pauline Kael is remembered as the often-acerbic New Yorker movie critic from 1967-1991. This profile includes a few Net links for more information.
Find some select quotes from New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael.
Quotations from journalist and editor Suzanne LaFollette, who was a feminist, libertarian, conservative, and anti-communist.
Find select quotations from socialite, writer, publisher, and congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce
Quotes by Anna Quindlen - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Lucy Stone, known as a feminist and abolitionist, also published a newspaper on women's issues with her husband and her daughter.
Quotes by Dorothy Thompson - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Barbara Walters, the first woman to anchor an American network evening news program, is profiled in this biography sketch.
A portrait of Anne Green, with a brief outline of her journalism career: she became the publisher of Maryland's ownly newspaper in 1767, after her husband's death. She was also Maryland's official pinter of documents.
This female journalist was wounded while covering the Western Front during World War I.
Library of Congress site, well-illustrated with good information on the history of women as journalists.
A suggested curriculum unit (including reproducible worksheet) on women journalists in wartime.
