Carol Sutton (journalist)
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Carol Sutton (June 29, 1933Template:R – February 19, 1985[1]) was an American journalist. She got her journalism degree from the University of Missouri.Template:R In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper,Template:R The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. She was cited as the example of female achievement in journalism when Time named American Women as the 1975 People of the Year.Template:R During her tenure at the paper, it was awarded the 1971 Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence[2] and in 1976 the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for its coverage of school desegregation in Louisville.Template:R She is also credited with significantly raising the number of minority reporters on staff.Template:RTemplate:R
Sutton knew of her Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame award at the University of Kentucky before her death in 1985. The family holds a Carol Sutton Memorial Scholarship Award in her honor every year, which has grown from one recipient to eight or twelve.Template:R She was the first white woman to be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame.Template:R
References
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Further reading
- James D. Ausenbaugh, At Sixth and Broadway: Tales From the Glory Days of a Great Newspaper, The Courier-Journal, Mews Publishing Company, 1998.
- Patricia Bradley, Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963–1975, University Press of Mississippi, 2003.
- Mimi O'Malley, It Happened in Kentucky, Morris Book Publishing, Guilford, CT, 2006.
- Kimberly Voss and Lance Speere, "Taking Chances and Making Changes: The Career Paths and Pitfalls of Pioneering Women in Newspaper Management", Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, published online March 20, 2014, by SAGE on behalf of Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication.
- Kay Mills, A Place in the News, Columbia University Press, New York, 1990.
- Marion Marzoff, Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists, Hasting House, New York. 1977.
External links
- The Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame
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- 1933 births
- 1985 deaths
- American newspaper journalists
- Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
- American women journalists
- 20th-century American women writers
- Place of birth missing
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- Courier Journal people
- Missouri School of Journalism alumni