Sadie Burton

Krause
MCOM 250: 01
8 October 2019
Annotated Bibliography

Apgood, Susan Matthews. “History of Women in Radio.” Newsgeneration.com, News

Gernation, Inc., 6 Mar. 2012, newsgeneration.com/2012/03/06/history-of-women-in-
radio/.

This article chronicles a few more important women in the history of radio. Kate Smith is known
for her powerful voice on Broadway she had a very popular variety radio show and the most
popular daytime radio show overall. Pegeen Fitzgerald worked in radio with her husband. in
NYC in 1937 and earned more money than any other radio pair. Susan Stamberg is known
because she broke ground and became the pioneer woman news anchor on a tv news show.
Dorothy Brunson, an African American, is famous because she owned her own radio station and
also began a tv station.

“Early Women in Broadcasting.” Early Women in Broadcasting | UMD Libraries | Library of

American Broadcasting, Library of American Broadcasting, 2015, www.lib.umd.edu/
libraryofamericanbroadcasting/early-women-in-broadcasting.

This article summarizes the work of four women who made significant contributions to the world
of broadcasting in its early stage. Because so many men went to war during World War II, there
were opportunities for women to fill the roles previously held by men in radio stations. These
women developed needed skills that they were able to use to remain in the business of radio and
television.

Emilaire, Sierra. “A Look at Women Represented in Media.” Study Breaks, 17 July 2017,
studybreaks.com/culture/women-representation-media/.

This source explains how media encourages the idea that strong women have to be emotionless
and aggressive, and that women’s lives are incomplete without a man. The article goes on to
describe the three stereotypes of women and leadership.

Halper, Donna L. “Remembering the Ladies—A Salute to the Women of Early Radio. From
Popular Communications,” Popular Communications, January 1999,
www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/remembering.html.

Unlike noted in most textbooks, this author contends that women were important to radio even in
the earliest days. These particular women have not been typically recognized for their
contributions.
Karpf, Anne. “Fear and Loathing of Women on the Radio.” The Guardian, Guardian News and
Media, 1 Feb. 2013, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/01/fear-loathing-
women-radio.

This article seeks to explain why women’s voices were not considered appropriate for
broadcasting in the early days. Women were thought to have voices that didn’t sound “good”
over the air because of their tone and pitch. In addition, women reporters were criticized for
sounding too personal or emotional in their reporting.

Kristin Skoog & Alexander Badenoch (2019) Women and Radio: Sounding out New Paths in
Women's History, Women's History Review, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2019.1600648

This article makes the point that the history of women in broadcasting is important to the overall
history of women in general. By studying women in broadcasting, especially radio, we can better
understand many facets of society because they are told through the lens of women over time.
Radio history reveals information about culture, beauty, fashion, politics, gender causes, and
more.

Loviglio, Jason. “Threatening and Threatened, Voices of Women Have Defined Public Radio.”
Current, Current, 15 Mar. 2017, current.org/2017/03/threatening-and-threatened-voices-
of-women-have-defined-public-radio/?wallit_nosession=1.

In this source, it is explained that NPR has been on air for more than 49 years and has always
included voices of women, which is an important contrast to the difficulty most women faced in
entering this field. Some people believe the silencing of women in broadcasting throughout
history parallels to the silencing of women in society.

Mills, Ted. “The Story of WHER, America's Pioneering, First All-Woman Radio Station (1955).”
Open Culture, 31 Dec. 2015, www.openculture.com/2015/12/the-story-of-wher-
americas-pioneering-first-all-women-radio-station-1955.html.

This article discusses WHER, the first all-woman radio station in America. It was founded by
Sam Phillips in 1955 after he sold Elvis Presley’s recording contract.

Mitchell, C. (2016). Women and Radio - Airing Differences — On the Importance of Community
Radio as a Space for Women’s Representation, Participation, and Resistance. pp.5-6

This article explains that through the determination and creativity of women who built their own
radio stations and those who found work at small community radio stations, women did have an
important place in the history of broadcasting.

Mitchell, C. and O'Shea, A. (1999). Gendered Practices in Radio Broadcasting — A Critical

Study of Cultures of Management and Production. pp.2-3.
In this scholarly journal, the author makes the case that women hold considerably fewer
positions in management than men, which creates an issue because it causes a bias and the
audience is not being represented adequately.