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Loretta McLaughlin

In the 1960s, Boston journalists Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole worked to publicise what would become known as the Boston Strangler murders.

In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.

Hilda Matheson

The BBC’s first director of talks, who helped to establish radio journalism

Isabella Beeton

Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold over 2 million copies internationally, outsold at the time only by the Bible.

Carmen Eva Nelken Mansberger

Spanish journalist, playwright, novelist, and actress

Hortensia Elizondo

Mexican writer, journalist, film critic, and feminist.

Matilde Serao

Greek-Italian journalist, novelist, and short story writer

Amy Jacques Garvey

Jamaican journalist and activist

Sigrid Schultz

Berlin bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party

Amy Ashwood Garvey

Jamaican activist, co-founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which was the most influential anti-colonial organisation in Jamaica for decades. Co-founder of the international Negro World newspaper, and one of the first directors of UNIA’s shipping line, the Black Star Line.