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writer. journalist. Notable works. The History of the Standard Oil Company. Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer ...
Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935), the first woman journalist in Sweden to be chief editor of a newspaper's foreign department. Olena Chekan (1946–2013), did political interviews. Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946), one of only two female journalists in San Francisco in 1887, associate editor of the Overland Monthly.
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. [1]
Ida B. Wells. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [1] Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and ...
As the U.S. reels from the abrupt rollback of abortion rights, this book is a timely reminder that while women have come a long way in journalism, their gains can’t be taken for granted ...
Male reporters were designated "investigative journalists" while female reporters doing the same kind of work were called "stunt girls". [4]: 8 The term referred to the idea that women doing this kind of work were doing something "bizarre or sensational" and that women who were strong or brave or independent were oddities. [5]
Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful was cited by the New York ...
Pam Zekman (born October 22, 1944, in Chicago) [1] is an American journalist who had been an investigative reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1981 to 2020. [2] A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Zekman spent over a decade as a newspaper reporter before working in television. [3] Zekman is known for her aggressive ...