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Obit of the Day: Newsroom Pioneer
When Dorothy Townsend asked to be transferred to the Los Angeles Times local newsroom, she wasn’t trying to break down barriers, she just wanted to become a great reporter. Townsend joined the Times in 1954 and, like most of her gender, was assigned to cover stories in the paper’s “women’s pages.” Although she did have the opportunity to interview future First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, it was not the hard-hitting news she had hoped to cover.
She demanded to be re-assigned in 1964. She suddenly became a “woman in a sea of men in suits.” Townsend did not have to wait too long to cover a story that was normally out of the purview of women. The 1965 Watts Riots became the local news story of the year and Mrs. Townsend interviewed religious leader in the aftermath of the riots and wrote profiles on the young men involved. For the work the local news staff did, they were awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize.
Dorothy Townsend would continue to write for the Times until her retirement in 1986. She passed away at the age of 88.
(Image of the Pulitzer Prize-winning local news staff, with Mrs. Townsend in the middle in the literal “sea of men in suits” is copyright of the Los Angeles Times)

Obit of the Day: Newsroom Pioneer

When Dorothy Townsend asked to be transferred to the Los Angeles Times local newsroom, she wasn’t trying to break down barriers, she just wanted to become a great reporter. Townsend joined the Times in 1954 and, like most of her gender, was assigned to cover stories in the paper’s “women’s pages.” Although she did have the opportunity to interview future First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, it was not the hard-hitting news she had hoped to cover.

She demanded to be re-assigned in 1964. She suddenly became a “woman in a sea of men in suits.” Townsend did not have to wait too long to cover a story that was normally out of the purview of women. The 1965 Watts Riots became the local news story of the year and Mrs. Townsend interviewed religious leader in the aftermath of the riots and wrote profiles on the young men involved. For the work the local news staff did, they were awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize.

Dorothy Townsend would continue to write for the Times until her retirement in 1986. She passed away at the age of 88.

(Image of the Pulitzer Prize-winning local news staff, with Mrs. Townsend in the middle in the literal “sea of men in suits” is copyright of the Los Angeles Times)

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