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Heroes and Sheroes of Labor Media

Description

Every period and region has had it’s labor journalist heroes. This session will profile a national Communist journalist, a journalist tied to unions from the Northwest, and a crusading Southern-based magazine in the tradition of Thomas Paine and I.F. Stone for a wide sampling of twentieth-century labor journalism inspiration.

Presenters

Joe Atkins on "Southern Exposure: ‘A New Style of Southern Journalism’"

Tim Wheeler on "The Daily Worker's Art Shields, Labor's Greatest Reporter"

Sandy Polishuk on "Julia Ruuttila: A Voice of Labor from the Northwest"

Moderator: Laura Hapke, Dept. of English, New York City College of Technology