Emily Barnelia Woodward

Emily Barnelia Woodward (May 2, 1885 – March 23, 1970) was an American journalist and advocate. She served as the editor for the Vienna News and later became its sole owner. Later in life, she became actively involved in advocating in several areas relating to reforms in Georgia. Woodward was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame and the Georgia Women of Achievement.

Biography

Early life and career Woodward was born on May 2, 1885, on a large plantation near the south-central town of Vienna, Georgia. She was the daughter of Nancy Barnelia McCormick and John Hartwell Woodward, Woodward attended public schools across in the Vienna area, and graduated from Gordon State College in 1910. She began a career in journalism six years later when she was made the editor of the Vienna News, which had been brought by members of her family and became its editor in 1917. Woodward broadcast on BBC Radio while under attack from Axis bombing. She was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement in a ceremony held at Wesleyan College on March 11, 2004.