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A Woman Journalist TalksNo local item is too small to he run in the small daily newspaper and subscriptions and advertising are vital to the success of the paper, Miss Annie Poage, of the Ashland Independent told the Kentucky Press Association in an address before the annnual - midsummer meeting here today. She gave the “Observations of a Woman Journalist.”Miss Poa^e has worked in.bothbusiness and editorial departments of newspapers and for^a time was an advertising writerfor a big Pittsburg department store.'The modern woman is “just as modest and far more capable and more to be envied” than the woman of the “laverider and old lace type,” Miss Poage told the editors, in one of her “observations” Since the granting of the ballot to women the race between the men and women for business su-'l premacy is to the “swift.” she added.“The wiser heads have learned that thev must get local news orYour home town and what your men andget out of the field.women are doing worth while and your own state should he more interesting than to readabout what the people are doing over in South Africa.”The small cite dailv should feature local and not telegraph news. . !The man who can get a storv but cannot write it is of as greatvalue to a newspaper as a man twho “can write.The proof reader can make theas the city editor.The headline writer should beclear and concise an demist keepthe busy reader in mind.•»Advertising is necessary for without advertising the newspaper cannot exist, hut without news advertising cannot he sold.lt;*7Physician.^ soon will he adver-. . - ’ * - #tismg.Miss Poage toid of her start in the newspaper business, how her first article, written long before she took up the work, was written as a result of a “talking to” given to her bv her fatheriiimale gossips “hung out. The article informed the citv officials that if they would take a hoe andget htisy cutting the weeds fromthe streets instead of sitting ahout gossiping* they would be d^ing the city more good. She also told of her experience in getting* in the small items for the personal columns of the Ashland paphr and how eventually thru the^continued use of local newsthe-/advantages of the big citvdailj were overcome!editor appear either educated or for stopping to chat in front of | ®|f a three-shcvel Malta tobac-uneducated. Tie is as important the city hall, where a number lt;f co plow from Oldham Hackett-
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Richmond Daily Register
Richmond, Kentucky, US
Tue, Jun 07, 1921
Page 3
Full Page
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