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Interview no. | R-0770 |
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 | 14 March 2015 |
Interviewee | Batson, Edith, 1928- |
Interviewee occupation | Journalists |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wharton, Virginia. |
Abstract | Edith Batson, of Burgaw, N.C., currently pens the weekly column "Newsings and Musings" in the Pender-Topsail Post & Voice. Born in 1928, Batson has accumulated some 40 years of writing experience. Batson graduate from Queens College in Charlotte, N.C. and completed one year of graduate study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For most of her career she wrote for the Pender Chronicle and Pender Post, two local newspapers. As an active senior, she writes during her daily routine-taking note of the curious things in life. It is rare to find her at the bungalow-surrounded by cornfields-that she calls home. As an engaged member of her church, Batson is either gathering ideas for her next article or playing the organ. Her writing flows from a love for people. Her hearing isn't all that it used to be and she's not sure she wants to bother with the latest technology, but her journalism career is thriving. She faxes her hand-written columns each week to the paper. If the small town she lives in doesn't have anything “newsworthy,” then she begins to muse. Her essays include everything from commentary on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to a section about a lost eyeglass lens. Her research comes through living in and serving her community. Writing for a small-town paper, Batson reminds locals of what is important. Her column reads like a warm conversation between friends. |
Citation | Interview with Edith Batson by Virginia Wharton, 14 March 2015 R-0070, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | R0770_Audio |