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Interview no. | R-0775 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.43. Special Research Projects: NewStories |
Project description | NewStories, begun in 2012, is an ongoing project of the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism. Interviews are conducted by students enrolled in media history coursework under the direction of Dr. Barbara Friedman. The series explores the life experiences of North Carolina media workers, whose career fields include print and broadcast news, photojournalism, web journalism, public relations, marketing, advertising and education. Included is a series of interviews with inductees of the North Carolina Halls of Fame. The interviews are biographical in nature, yet some concentrate on particular events or periods within the lifetime of the respondent. |
Date | 18 March 2015 |
Interviewee | Lauder, Valarie, 1926- |
Interviewee occupation |
Journalists Professors |
Interviewee DOB | 1926 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Karagiorgis, Victoria. |
Abstract | Valarie “Val” Lauder has a lot of success in the journalism business. As a young woman in the World War II era working at the Chicago Daily News, she organized a successful press conference with the President of the United States and a group of student editors. She penned her own column about the lives and concerns of American teenagers and covered the likes of Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas, Jane Powell, Lena Horne and other stars. She even received a personal telegram from Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. At 18, Lauder became the first “copygirl” at the Chicago Daily News. When the war ended in 1945 and men returned, Lauder's career was taking off. By the time she left the Chicago Daily News in 1952, Lauder had accumulated a lifetime of memories. She was 26 years old. Having witnessed and worked through significant transformations in journalism, Lauder went on to become a popular instructor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught feature writing for 30 years. She published a memoir in 2012, The Back Page: The Personal Face of History. Despite the numerous changes to journalism over the years, particularly with the introduction of new technology, Lauder insists that the field's true value lies in the hearts and minds of the folks who operate it. |
Citation | Interview with Valarie Lauder by Victoria Karagiorgis, 18 March 2015 R-0775, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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