Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project: Interview with Susan Galeota

Titles: Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project: Interview with Susan Galeota (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Susan was employed by Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. from 1988 through 1989 as office manager. She also worked on distribution and production. She was the first employee to use in-house technology to produce portions of the classified ads. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early egalitarian employee pay policies; job flexibility and lack of job descriptions; problems with employee accountability; interaction between sales and editorial sides of organization; early employment ads; effects of financial difficulty on journalism; centralized decision-making; production problems; values and integrity of organization; early reaction of lesbian community to the Minnesota Women's Press.

Dates

• 07/22/1999 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Galeota, Susan
• interviewer: Brewer, Kathryn Balstad

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 75
• Accession Number: AV2001.34.14

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. Oral History Project' <OH 75>

Quantity: 1.5 hour sound cassette 12 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 60 minutes length

Subjects

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