Campbell, Josephine C., 1927-2006.

Josephine "Jo" Campbell (1927-2006) was a journalist, civil rights worker, and environmental activist. She was born Josephine Anne Conrad in Evansville, Indiana and was raised by her mother in Daytona Beach, Florida. She attended Seabreeze High School while working as a "cub reporter" for the Daytona Beach News Journal, and after her graduation in 1945 she moved to Washington, D.C. to further her career in journalism as a copyboy for the Washington Post. She married Donald Herman Campbell in 1946. She wrote fiction for magazines under her husband's name, worked in public relations, and headed the Washington bureau of a Pakistani newspaper before beginning her 30 year career with the International Press Service, part of the Department of State's U.S. Information Agency in 1956. As a writer and editor for IPS, she travelled in the United States and Africa and wrote for Voice of America and publications in Africa, Russia, and the Middle East until her retirement in 1986. After her husband's death in 1988, she founded Ecotopics International News Service, a news service for environmental and human rights issues. She and her partner, chemist Hyman Rudoff, wrote for Ecotopics as well as the local Willits News in California. She was also active in the National Writers Union, the National Press Club, and other organizations. She died in 2006.

From the description of Josephine Campbell papers, 1905-2006, bulk 1947-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 426956386