Heroes and Sheroes of Labor Media
| Submitted by Heather Appel on Wed, 03/21/2007 - 12:16am.
Friday morning workshops 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
DescriptionEvery 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 »
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