List of woman-led U.S. newspapers

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1		A group of feminist scholars at Northeastern University is seeking help building a list of U.S. newspapers led by women at any point from the colonial period through the end of the 20th century. Please use this sheet to suggest relevant publications or fill in information missing from partial records. We are especially interested in woman-led papers that served communities of color and/or indigenous peoples. Our focus is on general-interest newspapers, but we understand how difficult that concept can be to define, so please err on the side of inclusion. For the purposes of this list, we consider a woman who serves as publisher, owner and/or the top editor as the paper's leader. We'll make the list public once it's finished. Questions? Email Prof. Meg Heckman at m dot heckman at northeastern dot edu.					NOTE: This list is a draft that still needs to be fact checked. Cite at your own risk.
2	Verified	Publication name	Editor/Publisher/Owner	Time period	Location	Archive status	Alternative publication names	Notes	Library of Congrass Archive Status

3		Finnish language paper	???		Fitchburg, MA
4		Casa Grande Dispatch	Angela Hutchinson Hammer	early 1900s	Casa Grande, Arizona			She really has a very interesting life story!	Mentioned a lot in tother publications. Cant find that much on the publication in the Library of Congress Website.
5		The California Eagle	Bass, Charlotta	1912 - 1951	Los Angeles	Digitized microfilm: https://archive.org/details/caleagle	Founded 1897 as The Owl by John J. Neimore. Oldest African American owned newspaper in LA	Weekly column "On the Sidewalk", drew attention to unjust social and political conditions for all Los Angeles minority communities and campaigned for reform.	Not much information on LCW, however it is mentioned in the Broad Ax in Salt Lake Utah as a paper that addresses the Negro Trailblazers in California.
6		Melbourne (FL) Times	Biggs, Gloria	1973-1976	Melbourne, FL	http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts	None relevant	Biggs was publisher and the first woman to lead a Gannett paper.	Mentioned a lot in tother publications. Cant find that much on the publication in the Library of Congress Website.
7		The Lily	Bloomer, Amelia	1818-1894	Seneca Falls, NY			Temperance paper.
8		New Britain (CT) Herald	Brown, Judy	1969-1995	New Britain, CT			Owner?	This may have been a section within another publication? The Bridgeport Farmer.
9		El Diario	Carmen Villavicencio		NYC			Excutive editor of the oldest, largest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S.
10		Buffelo Bulletin	Chappel, Edith (editor) Parmelee, Mary (editor)	1897 - ?	Buffalo, Wyoming			Switched to Parmelee in 1899	No information on LOC website. Website does not cover Wyoming.
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12		Miami Herald	Chusmir, Janet	1968-1988	Miami, FL	https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.2010.10677761		Supported the Women's Liberation Movement	Everything on LOC website was blacked out.
13		The Kentucky Post	Clabes, Judy				Section of the Cincinnati Post?	Editor. Went on to co-found KYForward.com. Post was a Scripps paper during her tenure.	LOC had many of the documents blacked out as well.
14		The Sunday Courier and Press	Clabes, Judy		Evansville, Ind			Editor. Then went on to KY Post.	Nothing in LOC in relation to the publication. Many of the archives only showed the word "Sunday" and not the actual publicaiton.
15		The Women's Standard	Coggeshall, Mary Jane	1886-1888	Des Moins, IA			Suffrage paper	LOC also does not seem to reference the publication. Searched by Title and State as well.
16		Rockford Register Star	Cunningham, Linda	1991-2011	Rockford, IL				Publication is mentioned in another publication, Rock Island Daily. Not very much on this publication either.
17		Warren Tribune Chronicle	Deming, Zell Hart		Ohio				Publication is mentioned in another publication, Ashtabula telegraph., January 03, 1874, Image 2
18		Rumbo	Diaz, Dalia	1996	Lawrence, MA				Publication is not mentioned.
19		Arizona Daily Star	Editor Jill Jorden Spitz (2016-current); Editor Bobbi Jo Buel (1991-2016); Publisher Jane Amari (1998-2004); Owner Josephine Hughes (1883-1907); Owner Clare Ellinwood (1930-1965)		Tucson, Arizona				Publication is mentionined in another publication, The copper era and Morenci leader., February 06, 1920, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4 and other publications as well.
20		The Daily Picayune	Eliza Jane Nicholson, aka Pearl Rivers	1876-1896	Picayune, MS	https://www.jstor.org/stable/4232739?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents		https://www.nola.com/300/2018/01/eliza_jane_nicholson_journalis.html	Publication is mentioned by other publications within the state. Did not find information on the actual publication or archived pages.
21		The Pittsburgh Courier	Garland, Hazel	Early-to-mid 1970s	Pennsylvania	The Courier has a full digital archive available for a fee online or for free through some university databases	The New Pittsburgh Courier; The Courier	The Courier was one of the leading Black presses of the early to mid twentieth century. Hazel Garland has been credited with saving it when it was bought, faltered, and was relaunched in the late 60s	N/A
22		Des Moines Register	Geneva Overholser	1988-1995	Des Moines, Iowa			Editor	Archival info. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015551/
23		The Washington Post	Graham, Katharine	1963-1979	Washington, D.C.	Many	None relevant	Stayed on a chair of the WaPo board until thr 1990s. Also worth noting that the Post's lead editorial writer was a woman, Meg Greenfield. Lots of interesting stuff in Graham's autobiography about the paper's editorial stance in regards to second-wave feminism.	The post in common in the archives of LOC.
24		The Maryland Gazette	Green, Anne Catharine	1767-1775	Anapolis, MD		The Gazette		Cannot find the actual publication, but it mentioned several times in other publications.
25		The New Citizen	Hanna, Missouri	1909-1912	Seattle, WA			Suffrage paper	Publication is mentioned some, but is tied in with the phrase "New citizen" can be murky to see the difference.
26		Platte Valley Lyre	Huntington, Gertrude and Laura (owners)	1890 - ?	Sarastota, Wyoming			First women to own a newspaper in Wyoming. See https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/lyre-girls-first-women-newspaper-owners-wyoming. They were called the Lyre girls.	Publication is not found in the database. The state of Wyoming is not availble.
27		Bangor Daily News	Jordan, Lillis Towle	1893-1986	Bangor, ME				Publication is not found in the database.
28		Worcester T&G	Lamson, Leah	1981-2017	Worcester, MA				Publication is not found in the database.
29		Savannah Morning News	Lester, Rexanna Keller	1995(?) -- ???				Possibly a man. Everything I find says this is a guy.
30		Chicago Tribune	Lipinski, Ann Marie	2001	Chicago,IL				Information avaiable at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2011267055/
31		Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News	Loeb, Nackey Scripps	1981-1999	Manchester, NH	1981-1989 microfilm. July 1989 onward in NewsBank.	Many, but has been UN and NHSN since 1950s	Served as co-publisher with her husband, William Loeb, during the late 1970s. Took over afrer his death in September 1981.	Publication is not found in the database.
32		Lexington Herald	Luecke, Pam	1975-2000's	Lexington, KY				https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83000827/
33		Muskogee Phoenix	Marjorie Paxson		Muskogee, Oklahoma	http://facstaff.elon.edu/dcopeland/mhm/mhmjour10-1.pdf		Publisher	Information available on LOC website. Seems publication may have been formerly known as Muskogee Cimeter.
34		The Leader	Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassman	1895-96	Great Falls, MT	Hardcopy only, available Great Falls Public Library and The History Museum, Great Falls, MT	The Daily Leader/Great Falls Leader	Historian Ken Robinson haswritten a short article about her, published in Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Woman's Stories edited by Martha Kohl. Helena: Montana Historical Society, 2016. My article: "Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassmann A Montana Renaissance Woman," pp. 257-59.	Infromation not available. MT is a state not found in LOC archives.
35		Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	Mary Joe Meisner	1993-1997	Milwaukee, WI				No information on this publication. WI is a state not found in LOC archives.
36		Montgomery Adversiter	Moore, Paula	1997ish	Montgomery, Al			Executive editor at Gannet paper	No results.
37		Western Woman Voter	Parker, Amelia (Adella?)	1911-1913	Seattle, WA			Suffrage paper	Mention in The Yakima herald., January 18, 1911, Image 9 as a new monthly.
38		Newsday	Patterson, Alicia	1940-1963	Long Island	Some kind of digital archive at a public library in NY. Need access. https://www.livebrary.com/historic-newspapers	None	Patterson founded Newsday in 1940; co-owned with husband Harry Guggenheim. He managed some administrative matters, but she's credited with the paper's success and reputation for good journalism.	No results.
39		Washington Times Herald	Patterson, Cissy	1930-1948	Washington, D.C.	Microfilm @ LOC and several other places.	Washington Herald and Washington Times were separate papers until Patterson bought them in 1939.	Patterson served as editor of the Herald from 1930 until she purchased the papers in 1939. She died in 1948 while still owner. There's a local paper in Indiana with the same name.	mention in other publications.
40		Liberty Tribune and Advance	Preston, A.L.	???	Missouri
41		Wind River Mountaineer	Preston, Cora (editor)	1899	Wind River, Wyoming			See https://www.amazon.com/Equal-Occasion-Editors-Nineteenth-Century-Studies/dp/0874171636	Not found. Mentioned in some publications but unsure if it is the samepublication due to the location being unclear.
42		Sarasota Herald-Tribune	Publisher Diane McFarlin; editor Janet Weaver	Weaver- (1999-2003) McFarlin (1990-2012)	Sarasota, Florida				No results.
43		Santa Fe New Mexican and Taos News	Robin McKinney Martin	1978	Santa Fe, New Mexico				No results.
44		Oregonian	Rowe, Sandra	2009					The Oregonian is mentioned a lot, but not the actual publication.
45		Paul Pry	Royal, Anne	1769-1859			The Huntress	Government Corruption	Mentions Paul pry often but is referring to a person, not the publication.
46		Vineyard Gazette	Seagrave, Jane		Marthas Vinyard, MA			Publisher. Editor was/is? Juila Wells. Jody Reston was former co-publisher	No results.
47		Lexington Advertiser	Smith, Hazel Brannon	1945 - 1985	Lexington, Mississippi	She was the first women to win a Pulitzer for editorial writing, so some of her work has been preserved. Unknown if general archives have been digitized.	None	Worked to deliver "Free Press" so that young civil rights workers based in Jackson to read publication.	https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=Mississippi&date1=1789&date2=1963&proxtext=Lexington+Advertiser+&x=15&y=15&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic
48		Buffalo News	Sullivan, Margaret	1999-2011	Buffalo, NY		The News		Mention in other publications.
49		Louisville Courier Journal	Sutton, Carol	1974	Louisville, Kentucky				Mentioned in other publications.
50		Saturday Visiter	Swisshelm, Jane	1847-1854	Pittsburgh, PA	Library of Congress		Also founded the Reconstructionist after the Civil War. Merged with Family Journal.	Mentioned in other publications.
51		Dollar Newsletter	Swisshelm, Jane	1815-1859 ?	Pittsburgh, PA				Mentioned in other publications.
52		Saturday Gazette	Swisshelm, Jane	1815-1859 ?	Pittsburgh, PA		Neal's Saturday Gazette		Mentioned in other publications.
53		Pittsburg Saturday Visiter	Swisshelm, Jane	1815-1859 ?	Pittsburgh, PA				Mentioned in other publications.
54		St. Cloud Visiter	Swisshelm, Jane	1815-1859 ?	Pittsburgh, PA		Family Journal and Visiter	Abolitionalist Paper	Mentioned in other publications.
55		St. Cloud Democrat	Swisshelm, Jane	1815-1859 ?	Pittsburgh, PA			Abolitionalist Paper	Mentioned in other publications.
56		Nippo	Terasawa, Kuniko	1914	Salt Lake City, UT		Utah Nippo	Now M.E. at a Vietnamese-launguage paper in Seattle	Mentioned here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058396/1919-08-27/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&index=1&rows=20&words=Nippo&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Utah&date2=1963&proxtext=Nippo&y=10&x=23&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
57		Gannett papers in Maine (?)	Think the last name is Gross?
58		South Carolina Gazette	Timothy, Elizabeth	1739-1748	Charles Town, SC (Charleston)	???		Publisher was listed as Peter Timothy	Mentioned in other publications.
59		The Rhode Island Gazette (South Carolina Gazette?)	Timothy, Elizabeth	1969-1973	Rhode Island			Women in American Journalism: A New History	Mentioned in other publications.
60		Pittsburgh Courier	Vann, Jessie	1940-1962	Pittsburgh, PA			President and treasurer; widow of Robert L. Vann	No results.
61		Boston Evening Transcript	Walter, Cornelia	1842-1847	Boston, MA			Often cited as the first woman editor of a general interest U.S. newspaper	No results.
62		Boston Transcript	Walter, Cornelia	1830-1847	Boston, MA				no results.
63		Norfolk Press	Weekes, Marie	1931	Nebraska			Ross mentions her in Ladies of the Press but never gives the name of the paper.	mentioned in publications.
64		Memphis Free Speech and Headlight	Wells, Ida B.	1892	Memphis, TN	None. Tennesee Encyclopedia.	Originally just Memphis Free Speech	Wells became co-owner of the paper in 1892.	no results.
65		Wichita Democrat	Wilcox, Molly Warren	1925-1952	Witchita, Kansas	Unknown	Jibber-Jab; Saturday Review; Mirror	See Country Journalism chapter of Ladies of the Press for details. U of Kansas library may have some archives.	mentioned in publications.
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