Lynn Povich
Lynn Povich | |
|---|---|
| Born | Washington D.C., United States |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor, author |
| Spouse(s) | Jeffrey Young (m. 1967- 1976; divorced) Stephen B. Shepard[1] (m. 1979-) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Shirley Povich (father) |
| Relatives | Maury Povich (brother) |
| Website | lynnpovich.com |
Lynn Povich (born 1943) is an American journalist who has spent more than 40 years in the news business. After graduating from Vassar, she began her career as a secretary in the Paris Bureau of Newsweek magazine, rising to become a reporter and writer in New York. In 1970, she was one of a group of women who sued the magazine for sex discrimination. Five years later, she was appointed the first woman Senior Editor in Newsweek’s history.[2]
Contents
1 Personal life
2 Lawsuit
3 Publications
4 References
5 External links
Personal life
Lynn Povich is the daughter of Ethyl and The Washington Post sports journalist Shirley Povich. She majored in modern European history at Vassar College,[citation needed] and in June 1965, left to work as a secretary in the Newsweek's Paris bureau. There she worked with Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek's first female foreign correspondent, who Povich would later consider "[o]ne of the great influences of my life."[3] After a year and a half abroad, she returned to New York in November 1966 as a researcher for Newsweek and married Jeffery Young in June of next year. In March 1969, she became a junior writer.[citation needed]
Lawsuit
In 1970, Eleanor Holmes Norton represented sixty female employees of Newsweek (including Povich) who had filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Newsweek had a policy of only allowing men to be reporters.[4][5] The women won, and Newsweek agreed to allow women to be reporters.[4] The day the claim was filed, Newsweek's cover article was "Women in Revolt", covering the feminist movement; the article was written by a woman who had been hired on a freelance basis since there were no female reporters at the magazine.[5]
Publications
In 2005, for the 100th anniversary of the Washington Post. she published a collection of Shirley Povich's sports journalism, All those mornings-- at the Post : the twentieth century in sports from famed Washington post writer Shirley Povich.[6] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 243 libraries.[7]
She also published in 2012 a book called The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace detailing the lawsuits.[8] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 756 libraries.[9]
A series of interviews with her was published by the Washington Press Club Foundation in its oral history project, "Women in journalism".[10]
References
^ The New York Times
^ Lynnpovich.com
^ Stivers, Cyndi (July–August 2012). "The sixth W". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved April 24, 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ ab "Newsweek Agrees to End Sex Discrimination Policy". Eugene Register-Guard, via Google News. Associated Press. August 28, 1970.
^ ab Lynn Povich (2013). The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1610393263.
^ New York : Public Affairs, 2005
^ WorldCat item record
^ New York : PublicAffairs, 2012
ISBN 9781610391733
^ WorldCat item record
^ Interviews with Lynn Povich recorded by Mary Marshall Clark; Washington : Washington Press Club Foundation, 1994. Worldcat.org
External links
- LynnPovich.com
Appearances on C-SPAN
