Carolyn Butts
Author and filmmaker who founded Reel Sisters of the Diaspora in 1997. Based in Brooklyn, the annual film festival and lecture series showcases films produced, directed, and written by women of color.
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Sara McLagan
Canadian newspaper publisher, journalist, and social reformer
Elvia Rodríguez Cirerol
Mexican writer; founder and director of the publishing house Libro Abierto
Matilde Serao
Greek-Italian journalist, novelist, and short story writer
Anna Dostoevskaya
Anna Dostoevskaya saved her writer husband, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from ruin. She was also the one to establish their own publishing company so that the family would receive far more profits from her husband’s writing.
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Katharine Graham
Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades
Sarah Herbert
1800s Irish-Canadian author, publisher, and educator
Sara Davy Armbruster
1800s and 1900s American businesswoman and publisher
Louisa Rogers
1900s Canadian newspaper proprietor