Lynn Povich
Lynn Povich | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Editor, Author |
| Spouse(s) | Jeffrey Young (m.1967- 1976; divorced) and Stephen B. Shepard[1] (m.1979-) |
| Children | Sara and Ned |
| Parent(s) | Shirley Povich Ethyl Povich (née Friedman) |
| Family | David Povich (Brother) Maury Povich (Brother) |
| Website | LynnPovich.com |
Lynn Povich is an award-winning[2] 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.[3]
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."[4] 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.[5][6] The women won, and Newsweek agreed to allow women to be reporters.[5] 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.[7]
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.[8] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 243 libraries.[9]
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.[10] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 756 libraries.[11]
A series of interviews with her was published by the Washington Press Club Foundation in its oral history project, "Women in journalism".[12]
References
- ^ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30715F7385413718DDDAE0994D1405B898BF1D3
- ^ //http://www.lynnpovich.com/bio.htm
- ^ http://www.lynnpovich.com/bio.htm
- ^ Stivers, Cyndi (July–August 2012). "The sixth W". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
- ^ a b "Newsweek Agrees to End Sex Discrimination Policy". Eugene Register-Guard, via Google News. Associated Press. August 28, 1970.
- ^ Lynn Povich (2013). The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1610393263.
- ^ 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. [1]
External links
- Lynn Povich at Lynn Povich.com