Harriet Van Home

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Harriet Van Home is an American journalist.

She is a syndicated columnist appearing in the New York Post and other newspapers around the country. In 1960 she covered the Nixon-Kennedy debates as a television critic for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. Her work landed her on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

Van Home had to deal with prevailing sexism against female journalists. Ray Erwin of Editor & Publisher described syndicated columnist Harriet Van Home as "a dainty, blue-eyed blonde with a sweet-voiced feminine manner-and a harpoon in her typewriter."

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• Senat, Joey (Fall 2004). Editor & Publisher Slow To Change Depiction of Women. Newspaper Research Journal