Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american writer and journalist”. Today it says “american author”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist Loretta "”. It now reads “American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Letty" Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She earned a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in English and American literature, and worked for the publishing company Bernard Geis Associates as their director of publicity and later their vice president.1She also wrote a column for Ladies Home Journal called “The Working Woman," and was an editorial consultant for the TV special Free to Be...2 You and Me (as well as for the album and book associated with it) for which she earned an Emmy. She was a founding editor of Ms.3Magazine , and a cofounder of Ms. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Pogrebin's name and picture. In 2009 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which inspired her book How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick . She was featured (among others) in the 2013 documentary film Makers: Women Who Make America . Pogrebin is a life member of Hadassah , and in 2013 was awarded that year's Myrtle Wreath Award from Hadassah’s Southern New Jersey Region. She is a board member of (among other organizations) the Director’s Council of the Women in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School, the Ms. She is the mother of Robin Pogrebin .4
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American writer and journalist. (The name Pogrebin is stressed on the first syllable: POH-grebin.) She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine , where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus . She was also a consultant on Free to Be… You and Me and edited Stories for Free Children . Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist , Jewish , and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , and African American -Jewish relations.
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The opening as it stood in 2020 8 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist Loretta "Letty" Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She is a founding editor of Ms. magazine, the author of eleven books , and was an editorial consultant for the TV special Free to Be... You and Me (as well as for the album and book associated with it) for which she earned an Emmy.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist. She is a founding editor of Ms. magazine , the author of twelve books, and was an editorial consultant for the TV special Free to Be... You and Me (as well as for the album and book associated with it) for which she earned an Emmy .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american writer and journalist”. Today it says “american author”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist Loretta "”. It now reads “American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice activist”. Read the current article and compare.
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american writer and journalist
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american author
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