And yet, as recently as this February, we were talking about how men still dominate in numbers in the writing world. Ann Landers: this pseudonym, first used by Ruth Crowley at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1943, would become associated for 56 years, beginning in 1955, with Eppie Lederer and her widely syndicated newspaper advice column. Herbert Bayard Swope: a reporter and editor at the New York World who won the first Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1917 for a series on Germany and later edited the Worlds Pulitzer Prize-winning series Klan Exposed.. Midgette was the "first woman to cover classical music in the entire history of the paper". Molly Ivins: a feisty, often outrageous humorist and populist, who wrote about national and Texas politics mostly for Texas publications before her death from breast cancer in 2007. [20][5], Sophia Dalton published the newspaper The Patriot in Toronto in 184048,[21] followed in 1851 by Mary Herbert, who became the first woman publisher in Nova Scotia when publishing the Mayflower, or Ladies' Acadian Newspaper. Morley Safer: a CBS reporter who exposed atrocities committed by American soldiers in the village of Cam Ne in Vietnam and reported for 60 Minutes beginning in 1970. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe, and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip. Roger Ailes: founding president of Fox News Channel in 1996 and former president of CNBC, who also served as a top media consultant for a number of prominent Republican candidates. 2014. Since starting her career in 1995 in Chicago, Bonnie has covered a variety of sports, working as a lead reporter for CBS for NFL and NCAA Men's basketball, and most recently as a host of College Football Live, and regulary substituting as a host for NFL Live and Outside the Lines. [52], Another example of a woman in a non-traditional media profession was Jennie Irene Mix: when radio broadcasting became a national obsession in the early 1920s, she was one of the few female radio editors at a magazine: a former classical pianist and a syndicated music critic who wrote about opera and classical music in the early 1920s, Mix became the radio editor at Radio Broadcast magazine, a position she held from early 1924 until her sudden death in April 1925. Carillo then started working for the USA Network, working as an analyst for major professional tennis tournaments. Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. [45], The first female full-time employed journalist in Fleet Street was Eliza Lynn Linton, who was employed by The Morning Chronicle from 1848: three years later, she became the paper's correspondent in Paris, and upon her return to London in the 1860s, she was given a permanent position. Jayne Kennedy replaced Phyllis George on The NFL Today in 1978, becoming the first African-American female to host a network sports television broadcast. Clay Felker: with Milton Glaser in 1968 launched New York magazine, which he had edited when it was a supplement to the Herald Tribune, and helped invent what became the most widely imitated style of magazine journalism in the late twentieth century and beyond. Ellen Willis: pioneering feminist writer and rock-music critic from the 1960s into the twenty-first century for the New Yorker and, for many years, the Village Voice.