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 movements for civil rights at the beginnings of the Civil Rights era, before mainstream newspapers offered regular or even-handed coverage.

References

• She Said What?: Interviews With Women Newspaper Columnists By Maria Braden
• Women and Journalism By Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner, Carole Fleming

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