Susan Myrick

Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Also known for her career as an award-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is respected for her work on television and in print.

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Jo Robertson

American pioneer first as a woman reporter in daily journalism and later as a reporter in the field of medical journalism.

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Anne O’Hare McCormick

The first woman on the editorial board of the New York Times (NYT) (1936-54) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence (1937)

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Argentina Fernández

Argentina Fernández Rafaelli has devoted herself mainly to political journalism and has also worked in novels, poetry and the biographies of public officials

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