WomaNews

"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 Civil Rights movement at the beginnings of the Civil Rights era, before mainstream newspapers offered regular or even-handed coverage.

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDC1F3DF930A35753C1A965958260 Article in the "New York Times" on women's sections in newspapers.]
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?s=rwg&b=UF00076708 "WomaNews" full text online archives] in the University of Florida's Digital Library Center

References

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Se1Z6DU9KoAC&d "She Said What?: Interviews With Women Newspaper Columnists" By Maria Braden]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=olAJxqGZ6VkC&dq "Women and Journalism" By Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner, Carole Fleming]