Melissa Ludtke

Melissa Ludtke

Ludtke in March, 2013
Born (1951-05-27) May 27, 1951
Iowa City, Iowa
Occupation Journalist
Years active 1974–present
Spouse(s) Eric Lincoln (divorced)

Melissa Ludtke (born 1951) is an American journalist.

Career

Ludtke always had a passion for sports, and upon graduation, she began working for ABC Sports and Sports Illustrated. Ludtke was notably at the center of a federal lawsuit that is credited with giving equal access to Major League Baseball players to women sports reporters, "Melissa LUDTKE and Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Bowie KUHN, Commissioner of Baseball".[1]

Ludtke was a writer and editor for the Nieman Reports magazine of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1998 to 2011. She then served as the Executive Director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University from 2011 to 2013. Before her editor job at the Nieman Foundation, she had been a correspondent with Time magazine and a reporter/researcher with Sports Illustrated and with CBS News. In 2010 she received the Yankee Quill Award, the highest individual honor bestowed on a journalist in New England. At Sports Illustrated, she was given a Front Page Award, and at Time was the recipient of several journalism awards.

In July 2013, Ludtke was featured in "Let Them Wear Towels" by Anne Sundberg[2] and Ricki Stern,[3] a short documentary on females working in male locker rooms.

Recognition

In 2012 Ludtke was nominated by the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as one of the "100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years".[4]

Publications

Melissa Ludtke is the author of On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America University of California Press, 1997 and Random House 1999. ISBN 0520218302

Personal life

Ludtke was born in Iowa City, Iowa, but grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the oldest of five children, her father worked at the University of Massachusetts where he taught finance, and her mother earned a Ph.D. in anthropology. Ludtke attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. In 1978 Ludtke married sportswriter, Eric Lincoln. By 1982 Ludtke and Lincoln were divorced and Ludtke went on to become a single mother of a baby girl she adopted from China.[5] [6]

References

  1. ↑ http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/ludtke.html
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839064/
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827830/?ref_=tt_ov_dr
  4. ↑ http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/ludtke.html
  5. ↑ http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00045
  6. ↑ http://beta.wpcf.org/oralhistory/lud3.html

Sources

Grubba, Max V., and Theresa Billiotb. "Women Sportscasters: Navigating a Masculine Domain." Journal of Gender Studies 19.1 (2010). Milner Library Communication and Mass Media Complete Database. Web. 24 Apr. 2011.

"Ludtke, Melissa. Papers, 1977-1997: A Finding Aid." OASIS Online Archival Search Information System; Office for Information Systems; Harvard University Library. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. <http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00045>.

"Linder, Doug. "Melissa LUDTKE and Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Bowie KUHN, Commissioner of Baseball." Exploring Communications Law (2000). University of Missouri at Kansas City. Web. 13 Oct. 2013.

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