Marjorie Paxson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marjorie Paxson

American journalist, editor and publisher

Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1923

Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 17-Jun-2017

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Marjorie Paxson (August 23, 1923 – June 17, 2017) was an American newspaper journalist, editor and publisher.
Paxson was born in Texas and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
She started her career during the second world war, working in Nebraska covering hard news for the wire services, then working in Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, and Boise, Idaho, as a women's page editor.
During her time editing women's sections Paxson experienced two demotions as newspapers changed their women's sections into features sections and replaced female editors with male editors.
She expressed bitterness over her demotions and attributed them partially to the women's movement, which she believed unfairly denigrated women's pages and their editors, whom she believed had been supporters of the movement.
Paxson finished her career as a newspaper publisher in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. Paxson advocated for working women and for women in journalism.
She led the transformation of journalism sorority Theta Sigma Phi into the professional organization Association for Women in Communications and helped create the National Women and Media Collection.
She was selected to participate in the Washington Press Foundation's Women in Journalism Oral History Project, and over the course of her career won several awards.
In 2003 she was inducted in the Association for Women in Communications' Hall of Fame.