Ryan Jennings was the Assistant Editor for the Spring 1999 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Driving Miss Dempsey
From cub reporter to globe-trotting columnist, Lotta Dempsey conquered a man's world, blazed a trail for all women, and didn't even notice
It’s the early 1920s and Lotta Dempsey is nervously walking into the MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton to meet the subject of her interview, Miss Charlotte Whitton. It’s the first time Dempsey has been entrusted with covering an official visitor on national business. Mr. MacPherson, the city editor of The Edmonton Journal, had only assigned the […]
