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   How did Maurine Watkins get her first newspaper job?

   • Her first byline came with an account of a case involving a woman named Beulah Annan. By Louise Kiernan, Tribune Staff Writer. No one knows exactly how Maurine Watkins got her first and last full-time newspaper job, only that she breezed into the Chicago Tribune newsroom on the second day of February in 1924.

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   Who was Maurine Dallas Watkins?

   • Maurine Dallas Watkins moved to Chicago from Radcliffe, Massachusetts and in February, 1924 landed a job as a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. Her assignment was to write about crime in Chicago with a woman’s perspective. By early April, she was winning front-page bylines, no small feat in those days, and the stories she wrote were doozies.

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   Who was Maurine Watkins?

   • Maurine Watkins was born on July 27, 1896, in Louisville, the only child of a minister named George Wilson Watkins and his wife, Georgia May Long Watkins, a schoolteacher. The family moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., where Watkins attended high school. Her yearbook described her as the “prettiest girl in the senior class.”

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   Why did Watkins write 'Chicago'?

   • The newspaper, convinced by Watkin’s zeal, hired her to write about the city’s crimes from a “woman’s angle.”Her eight month stint as a “sob sister,” or women journalists who wrote about female criminals and were often sympathetic to their crimes (although not in Watkins’ case), inspired her to write “Chicago.”

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   Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 [a] – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Early in her career, she briefly worked as a journalist covering the courthouse beat for the Chicago Tribune. This experience gave her the material for her most famous piece of work, the stage play, Chicago (1926), which was eventually ...

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   Jul 16, 1997 · No one knows exactly how Maurine Watkins got her first and last full-time newspaper job, only that she breezed into the Chicago Tribune newsroom on the second day of February in 1924. One story– and there are several– has it that she wrote the city editor a letter that listed 13 reasons why he should hire her and challenged him to find the ...

4. www.chicagotribune.com › 1997/07/16 › murder-she-wrote-2MURDER SHE WROTE – Chicago Tribune

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   Jul 16, 1997 · No one knows exactly how Maurine Watkins got her first and last full-time newspaper job, only that she breezed into the Chicago Tribune newsroom on the second day of February in 1924.

5. www.chicagotribune.com › 2019/08/08 › a-tribuneA Tribune reporter wrote the hit play ‘Chicago’ after ...

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   Aug 8, 2019 · Maurine Dallas Watkins died on Aug. 10, 1969 — 50 years ago this weekend — in Jacksonville, Fla. Don’t be surprised if Watkins’ name is unfamiliar. A nine-line death notice …

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   Mar 13, 2015 · Watkins was born in 1896 in Kentucky. She showed early talent as a playwright and founded a newspaper at her high school.

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   Chicago. Maurine secured a job at the Chicago Tribune during 1924, and received her byline within three months of starting. Then, once she had acquired the experience she desired, she returned to Prof. Baker's class (1925-1926).

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   Sep 15, 2017 · Maurine Watkins, News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio), December 14, 1928, accessed Newspapers.com. Born July 27, 1896 in Louisville, Kentucky, Watkins moved with her family to Indiana and attended Crawfordsville High School. According to a 1928 Indianapolis Star article, she started writing dramas from a young age.