Correspondence regarding corrections and fact-checking during the edition of Newsgirls. Includes correspondence with Luke Gagliardi (York University) and other students at York University regarding corrections and the edition of the book. Also contains correspondence and research materials about June Callwood, Dusty Vineberg, and Joan Hollobon.

Published copies of the Globe Magazine from 1958, 1961-1963, 1967-1968. Magazines include articles by Joan Hollobon written between 1958 and 1968, and by Olive Dickason written between 1958 and 1962. Some magazines include handwritten notes taken by Donna Jean MacKinnon.

Published copies of Science Forum Magazine for the year 1978. Copies include articles by Lydia Dotto. Titles of articles are:

• "Made-to-order weather" (Vol. 11, No. 1, May-June 1978),
• "Science confronts 'pseudo-science'" (Vol. 11, No. 2, July-August, 1978),
• "The Ozone War: dispatch from the front" (Vol. 11, No. 2, July-August, 1978),
• "Satellites" (Vol. 11, No. 3, September-October, 1978),
• "The great nuclear debate" (Vol. 11, No. 4, November-December, 1978).

Also contains articles by journalist Joan Hollobon.

File consists of two photographs of Kay Rex and Joan Hollobon.

Research notes created by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon, Marilyn Dunlop, Dusty Vineberg, Dorothy Howarth, Stasia Evasuk, Simma Holt, and June Callwood.

Research notes created by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon, Olive Dickason, Maureen Keller, Kay Kritzwiser, Dusty Vineberg, and Marilyn Dunlop.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Dorothy Howarth, Dusty Vineberg, Ruth Hammond, Joan Hollobon, June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Angela Burke, Olive Dickason, Simma Holt, Stasia Evasuk, Valerie Gibson, Yvonne Crittenden. Includes introduction and proposal.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Angela Burke, Dorothy Howarth, Ruth Hammond, June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Kay Rex, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Olive Dickason, Simma Holt, Stasia Evasuk, Dusty Vineberg, Yvonne Crittenden, Elizabeth Dingman, and Marilyn Dunlop. Also contains introduction and proposal.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Dorothy Howarth, Dusty Vineberg, Ruth Hammond, Joan Hollobon, June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Angela Burke, Olive Dickason, Simma Holt, Stasia Evasuk, Valerie Gibson, Yvonne Crittenden. Includes introduction and proposal.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Dorothy Howarth, Dusty Vineberg, Ruth Hammond, Joan Hollobon, June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Marilyn Dunlop, Maureen Keller, Michele Landsberg, Angela Burke, Olive Dickason, Simma Holt, Stasia Evasuk, Valerie Gibson, Yvonne Crittenden. Includes introduction and proposal.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Marilyn Dunlop. Includes original and photocopied articles by and about Dunlop, correspondence between Dunlop and MacKinnon, handwritten notes and other documentation accumulated by MacKinnon, database searches, photocopies of photographs of Dunlop’s professional career, and drafts of Dunlop's chapter in Newsgirls.
Also contains two articles by Joan Hollobon.

Five photographs of Joan Hollobon in different moments of her professional career and personal life.

Newspaper clippings of articles accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon and authored and/or reviewed by Joan Hollobon for the Northern Daily News (1953), the Daily Nugget (1955, 1956), the Globe and Mail (1956-1962, 1966, 1972, and 1976), the Globe Magazine (1957), and the Canadian Churchman (1960). File also contains articles about Joan Hollobon in the Daily Nugget (1955, 1956) and Canadian Doctor (1962). Contains some handwritten notes by Donna Jean MacKinnon, and a memo sent by Richard J. Doyle (editor of the Globe and Mail, 1963-1983) to Hollobon in 1960.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon (1920). Includes handwritten notes about Hollobon (some of them contain information about Kay Rex), newspaper clipping of articles contextualizing or authored by Hollobon, database searches about Hollobon, and a draft of Hollobon’s chapter in Newsgirls.
Contains a published edition of Bungle : truce and trouble by Joan Hollobon, a reprint of some of the articles by Hollobon to give context to the Medicare crisis in Saskatchewan in 1962, published by the Globe and Mail in 1962.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon about Joan Hollobon. Includes a notebook titled “Joan Hollobon” with MacKinnon’s handwritten notes regarding Hollobon. Some notes include biographical information about Kay Rex. Also contains printed information about the Hollobon Award.

Research notes and interview questions created by Donna Jean MacKinnon for Kay Kritzwiser, Simma Holt, Joan Hollobon, Olive Dickason, Dusty Vineberg, and Maureen Keller. Also contains Donna Jean MacKinnon’s notes on other professional projects, travels, and interviews.

File consists of four photographs of Joan Hollobon. Three show her in her office, possibly at the Globe and Mail, and one shows her with a man in a hospital bed.

Corrections to Joan Hollobon’s chapter and endnotes in Newsgirls. Includes correspondence between Donna Jean MacKinnon and writer Iris Nowell with corrections for the endnotes, and between MacKinnon and Andy F. Visser-de Vries (Hollobon's friend and caretaker) with corrections for the chapter.

Notes created by Donna Jean MacKinnon for the endnotes of Newsgirls about June Callwood, Kay Kritzwiser, Stasia Evasuk, Dorothy Howarth, Joan Hollobon, Marilyn Dunlop, Angela Burke, Dusty Vineberg, and Olive Dickason.

Draft chapters of Newsgirls for Angela Burke, June Callwood, Yvonne Crittenden, Olive Dickason, Marilyn Dunlop, Stasia Evasuk, Valerie Gibson, Ruth Hammond, Joan Hollobon, Simma Holt, Dorothy Howarth, Maureen Keller, Kay Kritzwiser, Michele Landsberg, Dusty Vineberg. Includes introduction.

Research notes and materials created or accumulated by Donna Jean MacKinnon during the creation of Newsgirls. Includes MacKinnon’s handwritten research and biographical notes Ruth Hammond, Marjorie Earl, Marilyn Dunlop, and Angela Burke, Maureen Murray, Joan Hollobon, Kay Kritzwiser, Dusty Vineberg, Simma Holt, June Callwood. Also contains contact information for several people accumulated for the conduction of interviews, newspaper articles about Canadian journalism (including information about prominent male journalists such as Peter Worthington, Val Sears, Gwyn (Jocko) Thomas, Wiarton Willie, and Ron Lowman) and women journalists in the 20th Century (including information about Alison Gordon, Jennifer Ditchburn, Elizabeth Dingman, Jocelyn Dingman, Marie Moreau, and Eleanor Roblin Done Dahl).