Charlotte Curtis

Charlotte Murray Curtis (December 23, 1928 – December 14, 1987)[1] was the first female journalist to head the New York Times. She was born in 1928 in Columbus, Ohio, attended Vassar College,[2] and died of cancer in 1987. She was married to William E. Hunt, a neurosurgeon and Ohio State University faculty member.

She worked as a reporter and society editor for The Columbus Citizen for 11 years, and at the New York Times for 25 years. She became an op-ed editor for the Times in 1980, a position she held until shortly before her death in 1987. Journalist Emily Yoffe describes her as "both the first woman on the masthead of The New York Times and one of the last women to always be the only woman in the room in the world of big-time journalism", and says she was "one of those rare print journalists who are as famous as the famous people she profiled".[2]

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References

  1. ^ Ware, Susan; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2004). Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century. Harvard University Press. pp. 145–. ISBN 9780674014886. http://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&pg=PA145. 
  2. ^ a b Yoffe, Emily (September 1999). "First at the Times". The Washington Monthly 31 (8). http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/1999/9909.yoffe.times.html.