WomaNews
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April 1989 front page | |
| Type | Monthly newspaper |
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| Editor | WomaNews Collective |
| Founded | 1979 |
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WomaNews was a radical feminist newspaper that began in Gainesville, Florida in the 1970s before moving production to New York, New York. Womanews was also the name of a section in the Chicago Tribune dedicated to women's news.
Purposes
Mainstream American newspapers addressed majority concerns and so different minority papers emerged in response to the need for a more comprehensive and multivocal approach to news. Women's sections in mainstream newspapers and women's newspapers provided a needed avenue for the dissemination of information and discussion of current concerns from and for women. The same is true for other minority newspapers, like the many African-American newspapers that covered human rights violations, oppression, and the movements for civil rights at the beginnings of the Civil Rights era, before mainstream newspapers offered regular or even-handed coverage.
References
- Braden, Maria (2009). She said what?: interviews with women newspaper columnists. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813193328. Preview.
- Steiner, Linda; Chambers, Deborah; Fleming, Carole (2004). Women and journalism. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203500668. Preview.
External links
- Article in the New York Times on women's sections in newspapers.
- WomaNews full text online archives in the University of Florida's Digital Library Center