Helen Thomas

During the years Helen Thomas covered President Kennedy, she was the first woman to close a presidential news conference with the traditional "Thank you, Mr. President."

Thomas served as President of the Women's National Press Club in 1959 - 60, and she was the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it opened its doors to women members for the first time in 90 years. In addition, Thomas became the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association in its 50 years of existence, and served as its first woman president in 1975-76. Thomas also became the first woman member of the Gridiron Club in its history, and the first woman to be elected President in 1993.

Here is more about her.

New York Times & leaking documents

CNN

Hostage Crisis

Here is a PBS project on the 444 days. Here is another installment.

Nightline

No international story other than war dominated American television news for as long as the Iranian hostage crisis. The seizure of the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 marked the beginning of fourteen months of concentrated, dramatic, and controversial news coverage that affected both public understanding of the hostage crisis and government efforts to resolve it.

Here is a look back at Nightline 30 years after it was created.

Attempt on Reagan

Al Neuharth

Who is Al Neuharth?

Discrimination lawsuit

Here is more about Christine Craft who filed a broadcast journalism discrimination lawsuit in the 1980s.



These are the plaintiffs in the Daily News 4 discrimination lawsuit. It ended in a settlement, as did the other lawsuits. It was settled after a jury made a decision but before damages were awarded. Here is a clip on the case.

Max Robinson

9/11

Here is a collection of newspaper front pages from 9/11.

Jessica Savage

Here is information about Jessica Savage.

60 Minutes

CBS and 60 Minutes take on the tobacco industry.

Tuesday's class

Hello. As noted in the syllabus, in place of a class meeting today, please watch the Barbara Walters video and the Ed Bradley videos on this blog. Think about how their careers fit into the timeline of women and African Americans in journalism that we have discussed in class and the material on this blog. Also, consider their roles as "firsts." We will address these issues in class on Thursday.

Barbara Walters

Ed Bradley

The above is a tribute to Ed Bradley.



This is from one of his most famous interviews.



Here Bradley discusses the interview.

More lawsuits

Here is more about Christine Craft who filed a broadcast journalism discrimination lawsuit in the 1980s.



These are the plaintiffs in the Daily News 4 discrimination lawsuit. It ended in a settlement, as did the other lawsuits. It was settled after a jury made a decision but before damages were awarded. Here is a clip on the case.

National Press Club

From Girls in the Balcony by Nan Robertson regarding the 1955 decision by the National Press Club:

“Here were the people in the balcony, distinguished journalists treated like second-class citizens. I had to cover the stories there. Some people equated the balcony with the back of the bus, but at least the bus got everybody to the same destination just as well. We could not ask questions of the speakers. You entered and left through a back door. It was discrimination at its rawest .”

-- Bonnie Angelo, chief of the Newsday bureau in Washington

The National Press Club accepted women as members in 1971.

Shirley Christian

Shirley Christian is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Her most recent book, Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled America’s Frontier, was published in April 2004 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Previously, she was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, The Miami Herald and the Associated Press.

She lived and worked in numerous countries of Latin America for nearly 20 years, and in New York and Washington, winning the Pulitzer for international reporting in 1981 for articles published in The Miami Herald about the wars in Central America. Her first book, Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, was published in 1985 by Random House.

Women and journalism lawsuits

Above is a memo from the plaintiffs' lawyer in the A.P. lawsuit: an example of good history. (It's from the National Women & Media Collection at the University of Missouri.)Few newspapers or television stations covered the cases beyond a brief mention.



Here is a link about Mary Lou Butcher. That's her in the photo above.

Here is information on Betsy Wade Boylan.

Exam II Grades

The results of the second exam are now available on MyUCF Grades.

If you have "-1" for your grade, it means you wrote your PID incorrectly. I have to wait to get the scantron sheets to record your grade.

Three-state strategy

The red states have not approved the E.R.A.

Here is a list of FAQ about the E.R.A.

Here is information about the three-state strategy.

More ERA images

Florida ERA images

Alice Paul - author of the E.R.A.