Newswomen's Club of New York

[3] The organization presents its Front Page Award annually to honor the most prominent achievements by women in journalism.

[4] American newspapers hired large numbers of female journalists in 1919–1920 to cover the women's suffrage movement, but after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, many were demoted to the society pages or let go.

[17] The first $500 scholarship was awarded to Mary Kay Johnson of Wakefield, Rhode Island in 1955 at the club's annual Front Page dinner and dance.

[21] The Eleanor Roosevelt Newspaper Women's Memorial Fund was established in 1964 in honor of the club member and former first lady.

[23] The Joan O'Sullivan Scholarship was created in 2008 in honor of the columnist and editor for King Features Syndicate who was also a former president of both the club and the Anne O’Hare McCormick Memorial Fund.

Nine white women posed for a group photo, all wearing hats and most of them smiling.
Members of the Newspaper Women's Club of New York in 1927. Front row, left-to-right: Helen Rowland , Emma Bugbee , Josephine Ober, and Martha Coman ; back row, left-to-right: Charlotte McLevedge, Rose Therese Nagel, Marie L. Darrach, Madeline Riordan, and Olive Hurlbut.