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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - We’re looking at the life and times of a woman who became a legendary reporter and member of Springfield City Council. There’s a book out now on Lucile Morris Upton. It’s ...

Although all of the women in Sarasota history that we are profiling in this year of celebrating Amendment 19 and women’s right to vote were remarkable, not all of them were necessarily suffragists ...

Susan Croce Kelly doesn't remember life without some sort of writing in it. She got started in seventh grade as the editor of her school newspaper and grew up as her mother worked at getting a fiction ...

Susan Croce Kelly signs copies of her book, "Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton" at the State Historical Society of Missouri on March 12. Susan Croce Kelly always ...

TAVARES — The late Mabel Norris Reese, who as a newspaperwoman wrote courageously about notorious Sheriff Willis McCall, will join a list of more than three dozen women achievers who have been ...

Meet a pioneering newspaperwoman at the Carroll Historical Society Program (CAHS) next month. The Carroll Area Historical Society invites area residents to a special program at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb.

Journalism is a great plot device, something we’re reminded of once again by The Post, Steven Spielberg’s new film about The Washington Post’s decision to publish The Pentagon Papers. It deserves the ...

Mizzell “Mitzi” Phillips Clark, among the first women reporters to work for The Kansas City Star, is seen here interviewing actor Edward G. Robinson. She was 19 years old in 1944 when she was hired to ...

Instructions for Guests Join us in person in the University Library or via Zoom. Dr. Chang Zacher won third place for Faculty Paper-History Division at the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism ...

MOUNT DORA — Sculptor Jim McNalis said accurately depicting 1940s and ’50s crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese was challenging. All he had to go on were old black-and-white photos. He didn’t have ...

Agness Underwood's years of reporting on the morbid and the disreputable would make her a pioneer—she would become the first woman to be city editor of a major American newspaper—but in the end she ...