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Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson, Countess Gizycki (November 7, 1881 – July 24, 1948) was an American journalist and newspaper editor, publisher and owner. She was one of the first women to head a major daily newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald in Washington, D.C.
12 dic 2011 · Her new book tells the fascinating life story of Cissy Patterson, once deemed “the most powerful woman in America and the most hated,” a celebrated debutante, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, the 20 th century’s first woman editor-in-chief and publisher of a major metropolitan daily newspaper, the cheerfully malevolent ...
17 giu 2016 · But despite being the brightest star in the sky, Cissy Patterson was anything but universally beloved. By the 1930s, she’d made an enemy of Alice Roosevelt by having an open affair with her husband, and then by publishing a prominent list of his old flames upon his death.
Cissy Patterson spends most of her party hours at “Dower House,” her estate in Maryland, once owned by Lord Baltimore. She is driven to work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder ...
Eleanor Josephine Medill “Cissy” Patterson, 1881-1948. The announcement that Patterson is the new editor-in-chief. Photo credit - WWP team. The first woman to serve as editor in chief and publisher of a major US daily newspaper.
12 dic 2011 · Patterson had an unprecedented career for a woman of her time: without a journalistic background, she successfully became the editor, publisher, and sole proprietor of a big-city newspaper, the Washington *Times-Herald*."
Cissy Patterson was one of the first women to head a major daily newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald. She published two novels, Glass Houses (1926) and Fall Flight (1928), and her short fiction appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Patterson was born into a newspaper family.
