Undaunted : how women changed American journalism

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Undaunted : how women changed American journalism / Brooke Kroeger.

Kroeger, Brooke, 1949- (author.).

Summary:

"An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing the most renowned trailblazers since 1840"-- Provided by publisher.

From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered-- and many long-forgotten-- woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present. In chronicling the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, Kroeger examine a larger story: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights from the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780525659143
ISBN: 0525659145
Physical Description: xiii, 568 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-538) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part one: First wave, 1840s-1880s. The asterisk -- The she lot -- Part two: Experts, stunts, sobs, front pages, and Amazons, 1880s-1920s. The breakout -- From Cuba to the Far East -- New thought -- Janus-faced -- Part three: Global crises, 1930s-1940s. Practice war -- Depressionistas -- Home front -- Sidebars -- Part four: Advances and setbacks, 1950s-1970s. Bridges -- Foment -- Supernovas -- Vietnam -- Collective action -- Star Power -- Part five: Realignment, 1980s-1990s. Not quite -- Power coupling -- Moving up -- Moving on -- Part six: State of play, 2000s-early 2020s. Assessment -- The more things change -- Epilogue: #MeToo, you, too.
Biographical or Historical Data:: Brooke Kroeger was UN correspondent for Newsday, deputy metropolitan editor at New York Newsday, and for more than a decade a correspondent, editor, and bureau chief for UPI both at home and abroad. She is a professor emerita of journalism at New York University, where she taught from 1998 to 2021, and serves on the editorial board of American Journalism: A Journal of Media History. She is the author of five books.