Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Ann Caulkins blazes trail for women in journalism


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Ann Caulkins, the first female president and publisher in the 120-year history of The Charlotte Observer, said recently that the culture of America's newspapers is drastically different from what it was when she got started years ago in Baylor, Texas.

Caulkins, 44, noted that 50-year-old+ cigar-chomping white males pretty much filled the nation's newsrooms in the 1960s and 1970s.

Today, visit almost any newsroom and you'll notice young people, women, persons of color (and men), she recently told an audience of journalism students, journalism faculty and others at Winthrop University.

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