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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The opening sentence of the Lead says, "society journalism is the reporting of society news". This is a circular statement. Society journalism and society news are the same thing. What the opening sentence should do is explain what this is. Nightscream (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
Page needs a revamp and move to Women's page, or Women's page needs to be created as a separate article and this one trimmed
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion
The thinking on women's page journalism has evolved over the decades, and calling it 'society reporting' is really not accurate post WWII for most newspapers. From about the 60s on, it was evolving into 'features' or 'lifestyle' or 'living' section and drastically cutting the actual 'society reporting' that was being done. "Society reporting" just doesn't work as a title for an article on the subject. I'm doing some research and finding a lot of academic work out there on this issue, as in The Penney-Missouri Awards: Honoring the Best in Women's News by Kimberly Wilmot Voss in the journal Journalism History; Spring 2006; vol32, no1; pp. 43-50. Sorry, no link I could find, had to find it in my own library's digital collection which is only available with login. This would represent either a very major change here or a new article plus a refocus here on the period when the section really was just society reporting, so I want to discuss first. valereee (talk) 15:19, 18 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
While society columns were often part of the "women's page," they aren't exclusively featured there (for example, the Paris Tribune ran the society column on the front page), and women's pages have sometimes included society columns and sometimes not, so it makes sense to keep this as a separate page (which certainly could use a lot of development!). Phrynefisher (talk) 18:20, 23 February 2023 (UTC)phrynefisherReply
