Category Archives: cavalcade

Radioplays and women in journalism

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Happy International Women’s Day! For some crime-solving by a non-fictional woman journalist, see last year’s International Women’s Day episode of JHeroes. This year, we’ll start with fiction and get back to reality — including women war correspondents –  before the … Continue reading →

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Cartoonist Nast back in the headlines

Posted on February 17, 2013 by

A new book about cartoonist Thomas Nast may introduce him to the current generation of journalism and visual storytelling fans. Imagine what he could have done with a modern graphic novel — or Pixar animation! Back in 1941, Cavalcade of … Continue reading →

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Ernie Pyle in newspapers, film and radio

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

Making room on a bookshelf next to my old copy of Agee on Film, I re-read James Agee’s 1945 review of “The Story of G.I. Joe,” a piece titled simply “A Great Film.” I went looking to see if YouTube had … Continue reading →

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Stanley, meet Livingstone; America, meet modern journalism

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

“This isn’t the other papers… I’m going to teach everybody in the cities, on the farms, on the frontiers to like important news. This country’s growing up… It doesn’t want any more colonial gazettes with local gossip, but big newspapers … Continue reading →

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Radio celebrated women journalists in fact and fiction

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

Happy International Women’s Day… First, here’s a dramatized version of a real woman reporter covering a real crime story — with a young woman criminal for good measure. Farther down the page, you will find links to other radio programs … Continue reading →

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What’s a ‘batch-i-naylian orgy’? Ask Abby

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

About half-way through this Cavalcade of America radio profile, a libelous attack on suffragist newspaper publisher Abigail Scott Duniway sends her off to the dictionary to find out more about the lies a competing newspaper has been telling about her. … Continue reading →

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Sabra Cravat, Frontier Editor

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

In both versions of the movie “Cimarron,” the visual spectacle of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush may have stolen the show. But in two radio adaptations, the story all belonged to Irene Dunne‘s portrayal of Sabra Cravat, frontier wife, mother … Continue reading →

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Margaret Fuller’s fountain of firsts

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

The Heart & the Fountain (download)Margaret Fuller was an author, the first editor of the transcendentalist magazine The Dial — standing among the male intellectual elite of 19th century America — and the nation’s first woman foreign correspondent, sent to … Continue reading →

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Radio marked founding of women’s magazines

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

I’ve already mentioned Godey’s Lady’s Book here, because Cavalcade of America did an episode about its editor, Sarah Josepha Hale. Here’s a women’s magazine whose name may be more familiar to 21st century readers: Ladies Home Journal. It’s still around … Continue reading →

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Anna Zenger: Romance or history?

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

These two episodes from Calvacade of America fall into a journalism category we might call “stories too good to check,” but they are still fascinating. Remember Anna Zenger (1949, Rosalind Russell) Mother of Freedom (1946, Ann Harding, Bill Conrad) The … Continue reading →

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