Marjorie Paxson

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American newspaper journalist, editor and publisher, who advocated for working women and for women in journalism. In 2003 she was inducted in the Association for Women in Communications' Hall of Fame. Paxson graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She started her career during the second world war, working in Nebraska covering hard news for the wire services, then working in Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, and Boise, Idaho, as a women's page editor. During her time editing women's sections Paxson experienced two demotions as newspapers changed their women's sections into features sections and replaced female editors with male editors. She expressed bitterness over her demotions and attributed them partially to the women's movement, which she believed unfairly denigrated women's pages and their editors, whom she believed had been supporters of the movement. Paxson finished her career as a newspaper publisher in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. She led the transformation of journalism sorority Theta Sigma Phi into the professional organization Association for Women in Communications and helped create the National Women and Media Collection. She was selected to participate in the Washington Press Foundation's Women in Journalism Oral History Project, and over the course of her career won several awards. Paxson was never married and had no children. She died on 17 June 2017 at age 93. Link to Wikipedia biography