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elizabeth peer wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life 2 career 3 death 4 notes 5 footnotes 6 references 7 external links toggle the table of contents elizabeth peer 4 languages العربية مصرى فارسی simple english edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american journalist elizabeth peer born elizabeth clow peer 1936 02 03 february 3 1936 east orange new jersey us died may 26 1984 1984 05 26 aged 48 new york city us other name elizabeth peer jansson education connecticut college ba occupation journalist years active 1958 1984 employer newsweek spouse john p jansson elizabeth clow peer jansson february 3 1936 may 26 1984 was an american journalist who worked for newsweek from 1958 until her death in 1984 she began her career at newsweek as a copy girl at a time when opportunities for women were limited osborn elliott promoted her to writer in 1962 two years later she would be dispatched to paris as newsweek s first female foreign correspondent peer returned to the united states in 1969 to work in newsweek s washington d c bureau when forty six of newsweek s female employees filed a complaint with the equal employment opportunity commission peer remained on the sidelines she was passed over for promotion to senior editor in 1973 for reasons that remain unclear peer returned to paris in 1975 as bureau chief and became newsweek s first female war correspondent in 1977 when she covered the ogaden war her reporting there won her recognition but she suffered a debilitating injury from which she never recovered leading to her suicide in 1984 early life edit peer was born in east orange new jersey on february 3 1936 1 to dr lyndon a peer and ruth banghart peer 2 both her parents were college graduates lyndon a graduate of cornell university was a plastic surgeon who established the department of plastic surgery at st barnabas hospital in newark new jersey ruth graduated from wells college 3 they married on december 16 1929 4 elizabeth attended the connecticut college for women graduating in 1957 2 peer majored in philosophy and showed a strong interest in the arts she started out as a reporter for the student newspaper the connecticut college news whose faculty advisor was a young paul fussell 5 before shifting to become its cartoonist as a sophomore in that year she also served as art editor for the quarterly the college s literary magazine and began acting in plays she continued acting throughout her tenure at connecticut 6 peer s performance as one of the two schoolteachers in lillian hellman s the children s hour made an impression on william meredith then on the english faculty miss peer s final scene showed great sensitivity and throughout the play she used her fine voice with tact and intelligence william meredith connecticut college news 7 at the end of her junior year peer was elected president of the wig candle the student theater group 8 peer recalled later that she never meant to have a career but after an inconclusive engagement with an unnamed man the spring of her senior year at connecticut she followed up on her experience at connecticut by enrolling in the theater program at columbia university her parents disapproved of her decision and declined to pay for the degree and peer dropped out from columbia 9 career edit an employment agency in new york city placed peer with newsweek as a copy girl at the time peer wrote later she had no intention of staying more than a couple years before finding a suitable husband 9 newsweek a prominent weekly news magazine had no more than a couple women writers from its founding in 1933 and none when peer arrived in 1958 an editor told peer that if she was interested in writing she should go somewhere else 10 11 nevertheless peer s adventurous nature including a notable incident in 1960 where she hid under a table to eavesdrop on a meeting of the civil aeronautics board attracted the right kind of attention from newsweek s editors 9 the culture began to change in 1961 when phil graham publisher of the washington post purchased newsweek graham promoted osborn oz elliott the managing editor to editor 12 elliott gave peer a writing tryout the only such tryout for a woman between 1961 1969 later peer reflected on the episode with bitterness few bureaucracies are perfect and by a series of oversights on management s part one woman was given a writing tryout between 1961 and 1969 i was the recipient of this largesse becoming a writer in 1962 elizabeth peer quoted in the world of oz 13 newsweek dispatched peer to paris in 1964 she was its first female foreign correspondent though she did not receive the customary raise when peer inquired about the raise elliott allegedly replied what do you mean think of the honor we are paying you 13 peer held her own with the macho crowd of the foreign correspondents in paris 11 lynn povich who arrived at the paris bureau in 1965 as a secretary recalled peer as newsweek s brenda starr she could match the toughest foreign correspondent with her cigarettes her swagger and her fluent french she was also a gifted writer and versatile reporter who covered everything from politics and the arts to fashion and food 14 peer sought to cover the vietnam war while in paris but was rejected because she was a woman 15 in 1969 peer returned to the united states to take up a post in newsweek s washington d c bureau still annoyed at newsweek over the lack of a raise peer had them ship her extensive collection of french wine back to the states in washington peer s beat included the state department white house and central intelligence agency cia 16 meanwhile the long simmering issue of newsweek s treatment of its female employees finally exploded the precipitating incident was the newsmagazine s march 23 1970 cover story on feminism the article women in revolt was written by helen dudar a freelancer and wife of newsweek writer peter goldman 17 newsweek s management thought that peer still the only female writer on staff was too inexperienced to write the story despite five years as a correspondent in paris 18 peer s attitude was ambivalent she did not join the forty six women who filed a complaint with the equal employment opportunity commission though povich who did described peer as especially supportive 19 peer moved up to new york city in 1973 where she continued writing for newsweek a cover story she wrote on barbara walters won a page one award the following year 20 one of the outcomes of the eeoc complaint was an agreement from newsweek to promote a woman to senior editor peer was the obvious candidate she had acted as one in early 1974 while the incumbent was on vacation peer s characteristic comment was that she survived without any great disgrace 21 both oz elliott 20 and katharine graham president of the washington post company favored peer for the position 15 newsweek gave peer a tryout in late 1974 the result of which is a matter of dispute peer later claimed that she was offered the job but turned it down 12 22 edward kosner then managing editor claimed later that peer was very talented but she wasn t a good manager and lynn povich recounts a story that peer s tryout ended when peer threw an ashtray at someone 23 regardless of the reasons why peer did not become a senior editor after rejecting an offer to leave newsweek to become assistant press secretary under ron nessen in the ford administration 24 peer returned to paris in 1975 as bureau chief note 1 she added another first in 1977 when newsweek dispatched her to cover the ogaden war between ethiopia and somalia 12 rejected for the vietnam war less than a decade prior peer became newsweek s first female war correspondent 26 her reporting would win her the overseas press club s ed cunningham award for best magazine reporting from abroad with james pringle arnaud de borchgrave and kim willenson but it would also prove the highpoint of her career riding in somalia in a land rover with a poor suspension peer broke her coccyx an injury which left her in constant pain 12 27 peer returned to new york in 1978 she married john p jansson an architect whom she had first met in 1975 she continued writing for newsweek serving as a senior writer and general editor but constant pain from her injury which was not fully diagnosed until 1981 interfered with her ability to work 28 she and her husband took a year off in 1980 1981 to sail around north america and the caribbean peer chronicled the experience for motorboating sailing including a thwarted hijacking by dopers 29 in october 1981 peer returned to her alma mater which after becoming co educational in 1969 was now simply connecticut college 30 to accept the connecticut college medal which is given to alumna of distinguished achievement 31 death edit the physical and psychological pain resulting from her broken coccyx were such that peer first contemplated suicide in the fall of 1981 she and jansson separated the next year though they remained close peer s relationship with her colleagues deteriorated as did the quality of her work new editor william broyles jr met with peer on april 22 1983 to inform her that newsweek was firing her effective july 31 1984 32 for someone whose entire career had been at the same magazine and whose identity was bound up with that institution it was a terrible shock after her termination she would be on permanent disability at considerably reduced pay elliott her former editor who had taken a chance on her in the 1960s recommended her for the curatorship of the nieman foundation for journalism at harvard university but the job went to howard simons latterly the managing editor of the washington post 33 despondent and in chronic pain she committed suicide the night of may 26 1984 34 peer s funeral was at st bartholomew s in midtown manhattan tex mccrary presided those delivering eulogies included elliott jane bryant quinn and linda bird francke 35 the circumstances of peer s death led to much soul searching within newsweek which founded the elizabeth peer scholarship fund at the columbia university graduate school of journalism 11 peer s papers are at the american heritage center at the university of wyoming 36 notes edit blair implies that peer was newsweek s first female foreign bureau chief but that honor went to jane whitmore who became chief in rome in 1971 12 25 footnotes edit elizabeth peer jansson social security death index death record newspaperarchive com retrieved january 18 2016 1 2 elizabeth peer senior writer for newsweek is dead at 48 the new york times june 5 1984 retrieved january 18 2016 alumni notes cornell alumni news 75 11 36 june 1973 hdl 1813 27891 the alumni cornell alumni news 32 17 236 february 13 1930 hdl 1813 26949 cub reporters get news press cards at tuesday party connecticut college news november 18 1953 retrieved april 25 2016 news presents background material of nominations for stu govt offices connecticut college news march 8 1956 retrieved april 25 2016 meredith william december 8 1955 poise polished performance describe w and c production connecticut college news retrieved april 25 2016 around the campus connecticut college news april 12 1956 retrieved april 25 2016 1 2 3 peer 1979 p 6 elliott 1980 pp 142 143 1 2 3 blair 1984 p 74 1 2 3 4 5 blair 1984 p 76 1 2 elliott 1980 p 143 povich 2012 p 23 1 2 povich 2012 p 151 blair 1984 p 75 graham 1997 p 424 povich 2012 pp 4 5 povich 2012 p 100 1 2 povich 2012 p 171 another sex barrier falls new york 7 11 56 march 18 1974 peer 1979 p 7 povich 2012 p 172 see what the girls in the back room will have new york 7 50 102 december 16 1974 povich 2012 p 121 povich 2012 p 181 povich 2012 p 207 blair 1984 p 77 peer 1981 p 139 connecticut college goes fully coed the day january 8 1969 retrieved january 13 2018 waxenberg 1981 p 1 blair 1984 p 78 blair 1984 p 79 blair 1984 p 72 blair 1984 p 73 lumsden 2004 pp 40 41 references edit blair gwenda october 1984 the heart of the matter manhattan inc 1 2 elliott osborn 1980 the world of oz new york viking press isbn 978 0 670 78770 8 graham katharine 1997 personal history new york knopf isbn 0 394 58585 2 lumsden linda j spring 2004 journalism collections at the university of wyoming s american heritage center journalism history 30 1 40 45 doi 10 1080 00947679 2004 12062643 s2cid 142204163 peer elizabeth spring 1979 what s newsweek the connecticut college alumni magazine 56 3 peer elizabeth april 1981 sailing sabbatical motorboating sailing 147 4 povich lynn 2012 the good girls revolt how the women of newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace new york publicaffairs isbn 978 1 61039 173 3 waxenberg robin lynn october 9 1981 the perils of peer the college voice external links edit guide to journalism collections at the american heritage center portals biography journalism united states retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title elizabeth_peer oldid 1372557787 categories 1936 births 1984 deaths 1984 suicides 20th century american people 20th century american women american women war correspondents american war correspondents connecticut college alumni journalists from new york city suicides in new york city writers from east orange new jersey female suicides hidden categories articles with short 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