Sylvia Porter: America's Original Personal Finance Columnist
Tracy Lucht, "Sylvia Porter: America's Original Personal Finance Columnist"
English | ISBN: 0815610297 | 2013 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0815610297 | 2013 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Sylvia Porter (1913-1991) was the nation's first personal finance columnist and one of the most admired women of the twentieth century. In Sylvia Porter: America's Original Personal Finance Columnist, Lucht traces Porter's professional trajectory, identifying her career strategies and exploring the role of gender in her creation of a once-unique, now-ubiquitous form of journalism. A pioneer for both male and female journalists, Porter established a genre of newspaper writing that would last into the twenty-first century while carving a space for women in what had been an almost exclusively male field.