Summer Series 2022: Women’s Page Journalism & Soft News – Kimberly Voss (NWMC, Part 2)

Dr. Kimberly Voss joins us to talk about her writings on women in journalism, particularly her books on Women’s Pages in newspapers and how she utilized the National Women and Media Collection for her research.

Episode & Banner Image: Miami (FL) Herald newspaper staff, ca. 1950s [Dorothy Misener Journey Papers (C3904), SHSMO]

About the Guest: Dr. Kimberly Voss earned a PhD in Mass Communications and Journalism from the University of Maryland. Presently, she is a Professor of Journalism at the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of several books, including “The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community,” “Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s,” and “Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News.” She is the co-author of “Mad Men & Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness.”