By Elodie Barnes | On March 18, 2025 | Comments (0)
Marie Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012) was an American journalist known for her intimate, storytelling reporting style covering conflicts worldwide.
She was best known for her coverage of the Middle East (as well as for her trademark black eyepatch, worn after losing her left eye in Sri Lanka). She died while covering the conflict in Syria in 2012, and the Syrian government has since been held responsible for her death. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On January 23, 2025 | Comments (0)
Starting in the 1920s, trailblazing American female radio broadcasters used their voices to open their fellow citizen’s eyes — or more accurately ears — to news of the wider world.
Historically, women had to fight like crazy to participate in every form of journalism. Though women faced less resistance in the early days of radio, they still had to fight for the right to report hard news.
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By Alex J. Coyne | On December 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
Gonzo journalism is a writing style strongly associated with Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. However, others have contributed their voice to immersive journalism since the genre’s earliest roots in New Journalism.
Here we’ll explore the work of Joan Didion, Gail Sheehy, and Barbara Ehrenreich in this context as three impactful female gonzo journalists.
Where the author becomes central to the story or investigation is an example of immersive or gonzo journalism. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On November 8, 2024 | Updated March 15, 2025 | Comments (0)
Lee Miller (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977) was an American photographer and war correspondent. For many years she was known as the muse and lover of Surrealist artist Man Ray.
She was extraordinarily talented in her own right, moving with ease from the fashion circles of New York, to the Surrealist circles of Paris, to front-line photography in World War II.
Her life and work has been painstakingly documented and promoted by her son Antony Penrose, and most recently has been the subject of a 2023 film produced by and starring Kate Winslet. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On June 10, 2024 | Updated November 10, 2025 | Comments (0)
It may be surprising to learn that a small but determined coterie of women published newspapers in the American colonies, before the states declared independence from Britain.
By the start of the American Revolution (1765), there were more than a dozen women printer-publishers operating on their own in the colonies. Most of them, called “widow-printers,” inherited their presses and newspapers after their husbands’ deaths.
Even so, it was rare for any woman to run a newspaper on her own. Not until much later could American women own property. They were property, though not to the extreme degree as their slaves and servants. Read More→
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