Journalism Archives - Page 17 of 49

Ellen Duncan

Irish arts administrator and journalist

Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.

Lynn Johnston

Since 1979, when For Better or For Worse first appeared, Canadian artist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) has been chronicling the lives of the Patterson family

Madeleine Riffaud

Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza

Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.

Hermila Galindo

Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.

Geraldine Pindell Trotter

Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.

Edith O’Shaughnessy

American journalist, biographer, screenwriter and political spouse

Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.

Anne Newport Royall

Her four-page weekly newspaper, Paul Pry, later the Huntress, ran for twenty-five years and was described as a forerunner of the modern Washington gossip columns.