Starting in the 1840s with pioneering journalist Margaret Fuller, Undaunted aims to document how women have changed American journalism. And also, I’ve lived a lot of it in its own right, and a lot of my work has traced these avenues. “I’ve been working on this material in one way or another for a long time, so I was prepared in a way to write this. She noted that the substantial work on what would eventually become Undaunted was somewhat lightened by her 40-year career as a journalist. With the invitation from Segal, Kroeger prepared to put off her plans for retirement and take on a major new project. It was certainly time for an update, especially considering that, while Ross’s Ladies as a substantial accomplishment, the work can be critiqued for, among other things, not including a single Black woman among the 300 journalists that it celebrates. For nearly 100 years, no new book for a wide audience had been published documenting the contributions of women to journalism. Kroeger shared that the only comparable non-academic title she could find was 1936’s Ladies of the Press by Ishbel Ross, a novelist and author of non-fiction books known for bringing to prominence unsung women like Elizabeth Blackwell, who is remembered as the first woman in the US to receive a medical degree. I mean, this is just not my karma at all.” “You don’t get invitations like that all the time. “He was looking for a history of women in journalism but couldn’t find one, and he thought this book should exist,” said Kroeger.

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