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Rossiter, Margaret – Contemporary French Civilization, 1980
French women filled many positions in the development of the clandestine French Resistance Press. The press expanded from a handful of papers in 1940 to over 100 national papers by 1944. Papers directed specifically to women urged their support of the Resistance Movement. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Activism, Editorials, Employed Women, European History
Burd, Gene – 1978
The predicament of journalism as both an objective observer and a subjective participant is examined in this paper. Among the topics discussed are some basic ethical entanglements involved in the dilemma; regional newspapers that have been legendary for personal-involvement journalism; current evidence that journalistic performance is being…
Descriptors: Activism, Ethics, Journalism, News Media
McGlashan, Zena Beth – 1986
Reconstructing journalism history is as important for contemporary mass communication professionals as it is for scholars and their students because looking at the past from a minority standpoint--in this case women circa the turn of the century--presents social issues which form the background of controversies going on today, such as the argument…
Descriptors: Activism, Feminism, News Reporting, Political Issues
McBride, Genevieve G. – 1986
Analysis of the Wisconsin woman suffrage campaign of 1910-1920 suggests that public relations belonged not only to political or business practices, but was equally a process by which the masses achieved their own best interests in nineteenth and early twentieth century social reform movements. Woman suffragists were led by women, and the public…
Descriptors: Activism, Females, Feminism, Fund Raising