Brooke Kroeger
{{short description|Journalist, author, and professor}}
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Brooke Kroeger is a journalist, writer, and professor emerita at New York University. She has written books on Nellie Bly, Fannie Hurst, and most recently a 2023 book on women in journalism.
Education and career
Kroeger as a B.S. in journalism and political science from Boston University (1971), and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University (1972).{{Cite web |title=Brooke Kroeger |url=https://www.librarything.com/author/kroegerbrooke |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Wickman |first=G. Fred |date=February 4, 1994 |title=Her parents are so proud of this author's success - and why not? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-her-parents-are-so/124679754/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=The Kansas City Star; Kansas City, Missouri}}
Kroeger has worked as a journalist with Newsday, and New York Newsday.{{Cite web |date=November 18, 2022 |title="Listen World!": Elsie Robinson and Women Newspaper Columnists |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/listen-world-elsie-robinson-newspaper-columnists?date=2022-11-18 |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=www.nyhistory.org}} For eleven years she worked for United Press International, including serving as chief editor for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa while she was based on London, and serving as bureau chief while she was based in Tel Aviv.
Kroeger taught at New York University from 1998 until 2021, and served as the first director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. As of 2023, Kroeger is professor emerita at New York University.{{Cite web |title=Faculty |url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/graduate/programs/global-and-joint-program-studies/faculty/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=NYU Journalism |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke |year=1994 |title=Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter |isbn=9780812919738 |language=en}}Reviews for Nellie Bly
- {{Cite news |last=Sims |first=Patsy |date=1994-03-06 |title=Her Place Was in the News |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/books/her-place-was-in-the-news.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=0362-4331}}
- {{Cite news |last=Lichtenstein |first=Grace |date=1994-03-13 |title=AROUND THE WORLD IN 72 DAYS |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/03/13/around-the-world-in-72-days/fe964a0f-e224-45c8-a8cc-3a9b03756a5a/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=0190-8286}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Marzolf |first=Marion T. |date=1995 |title=Review of Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2082054 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=279–280 |doi=10.2307/2082054 |jstor=2082054 |issn=0021-8723}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke |title=Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst |year=1998 |isbn=978-0812924978 |language=en}}Reviews for Fannie
- {{Cite journal |date=2000-03-01 |title=Fannie: the talent for success of writer Fannie Hurst |journal=Choice Reviews Online |volume=37 |issue=7 |pages=37–3749-37-3749 |doi=10.5860/choice.37-3749 |doi-broken-date=1 February 2025 |issn=0009-4978}}
- {{Cite news |last=Louis |first=Catherine Saint |date=1999-09-19 |title=Books in Brief: Nonfiction |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/19/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-427306.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=0362-4331}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Koppelman |first=Susan |date=1999 |editor-last=Kroeger |editor-first=Brooke |title=Writing for Her Life |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4023368 |journal=The Women's Review of Books |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=20–21 |doi=10.2307/4023368 |jstor=4023368 |issn=0738-1433}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke|title=Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are |year=2003|publisher=PublicAffairs | isbn=978-1891620997}}Reviews of Passing
- {{Cite news |last=Dunbar-Ortiz |first=Roxanne |date=14 September 2003 |title=Being someone you are not; Passing When People Can't Be Who They Are Brooke Kroeger |pages=R.5 |work=Los Angeles Times ; Los Angeles, Calif. [Los Angeles, Calif] |via=Proquest}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke |title=Undercover Reporting : The Truth About Deception |date=2012 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=978-0-8101-2619-0}}Reviews of Undercover Reporting
- {{Cite journal |last=Conrad |first=David |date=2013-09-17 |title=Brooke Kroeger, Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception |url=https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2436 |journal=International Journal of Communication |language=en |volume=7 |pages=4 |issn=1932-8036}}
- {{Cite journal |last=MCCREERY |first=DAVID |date=2013 |title=Review of Undercover Reporting: the truth about deception |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41999469 |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=109–110 |doi=10.1080/00223344.2012.757830 |jstor=41999469 |s2cid=162243043 |issn=0022-3344}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke |title=The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781438466309 |language=en}}Reviews for The Suffragents
- {{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=2017-11-01 |title=The Roles of Men and New York State in Women's Suffrage |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/nyregion/the-roles-of-men-and-new-yorkers-in-womens-suffrage.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=0362-4331}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kroeger |first=Brooke |title=Undaunted How Women Changed American Journalism |publisher=Penguin Random House|year=2023 |isbn=9780525659143 |language=en}}
Reviews of Undaunted
- {{Cite news |last=Kamensky |first=Jane |date=2023-05-13 |title=From 'Front-Page Girls' to Newsroom Leaders |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/books/review/undaunted-brooke-kroeger.html |access-date=2023-05-14 |issn=0362-4331}}
- {{cite web | last=Esposito | first=Veronica | title=Undaunted: the untold story of women in American journalism | website=the Guardian | date=2023-05-31 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/undaunted-brooke-kroeger-book-women-journalism | access-date=2023-07-11}}
- {{cite web | title=Stories of remarkable women in journalism featured in new book | website=KPCW | date=2023-07-10 | url=https://www.kpcw.org/show/mountain-money/2023-07-10/stories-of-remarkable-women-in-journalism-featured-in-new-book | ref={{sfnref | KPCW | 2023}} | access-date=2023-07-11}}
- {{cite web | title=LA Times Today: Brooke Kroeger's 'Undaunted' details how women changed American journalism | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2023-06-15 | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/history-women-journalists-latt-123 | ref={{sfnref | Los Angeles Times | 2023}} | access-date=2023-07-11}}
- {{cite web | last=Hook | first=Janet | title=From 'women's pages' to front lines: Tracking women journalists' (unfinished) progress | website=Los Angeles Times | date=2023-05-17 | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-05-17/from-womens-pages-to-front-lines-tracking-women-journalists-unfinished-progress | access-date=2023-07-11}}
- {{cite web | title='Undaunted' tells the story of the women journalists who blazed a trail for others | website=NPR | date=2023-05-20 | url=https://www.npr.org/2023/05/20/1177309879/undaunted-tells-the-story-of-the-women-journalists-who-blazed-a-trail-for-others | ref={{sfnref | NPR | 2023}} | access-date=2023-07-11}}
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