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Meg Heckman

Boston, New Hampshire
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Associate prof & director of grad programs @NUjournalism. Standing at the intersection of journalism, gender and tech, working for innovative, inclusive news.

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The Girls from Boston

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By Meg Heckman
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
Who was she? I wondered as I examined a box stuffed with fragile, yellowed clippings of newspaper stories written decades ago by Boston Globe reporter Marjory Adams. I had just started my excavation of archival materials donated by the Globe to Northeastern University, where I work as a journalism professor. My goal was to find influential local women journalists who, because of sexism and other factors, have been overlooked.
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How Midcentury Women’s Magazines Fought Cancer

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By Meg Heckman
| Saturday Evening Post Magazine Verified
Maxine Davis wrote about plenty of tough topics during her long career in journalism, but none of them frightened her as much as the assignment she received in the spring of 1940. Her editors at Good Housekeeping wanted her to cover cancer, a disease so cloaked in stigma that Davis, like many other Americans, was afraid to say its name out loud. The sweeping series of articles she produced that year changed her thinking.
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The gendered fault lines defining the 2024 election

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By Meg Heckman
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night was an awful brew of xenophobia, racism and sexism that showcased our nation’s worst tendencies in the heart of its largest media market. The misogyny was palpable. One opening speaker joked about Taylor Swift being murdered by her boyfriend.
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