A Toast To Groundbreaking Female Journalists Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, Marquerite Higgins And Ethel Payne Broke Mold POSTED: 12:20 p.m. EDT September 12, 2002 UPDATED: 12:34 p.m. EDT September 12, 2002 WASHINGTON -- I'm happy to say that women have found their place in journalism. It took a long time, and of course they were not alone. Women in many other fields have struggled over the years for job equality. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, women journalists fought uphill battles for the opportunity to write "hard news" -- the breaking stories of the day -- for their...
