Stamps to Salute 4 Female Journalists
Four famous female journalists will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next month.
The U.S. Postal Service plans to issue stamps Sept. 14 featuring Nellie Bly, Marguerite Higgins, Ethel L. Payne and Ida M. Tarbell.
First-day ceremonies will be held at a Society of Professional Journalists convention in Fort Worth, and the 37-cent stamps will go on sale nationwide the next day.
The four women made their marks in a field then dominated by men.
They shunned the limitations of women’s and society pages to do investigative journalism, war correspondence and political reporting.
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