March 21, 2012 at 9:12am 100 notes
womenjournalismR.I.P.los angeles times
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dorothy Townsend dies at 88; Times city room’s first female reporter

ladyjournos:

“Dorothy was what we would have called back then very ladylike,” former Times columnist Steve Harvey said in an email. “She wore dresses. She didn’t smoke or curse…. But she was tough.”

As proof, he recalled how she was sent to skid row in 1978 to write about the fears of the homeless after a series of stabbings.

“She was funny and smart and she was one of the guys, and that was very hard to achieve back then,” said Patt Morrison, a Times columnist who was a newsroom intern when she met Townsend in the late 1970s. “It was a very macho environment when she came into it, and it was pretty brave for her to do.

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Photo: Dorothy Townsend with fellow members of the Los Angeles Times team that won a 1966 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts riots. Bill Thomas, who oversaw the coverage, is at center left with hands clasped. Credit: Los Angeles Times

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