Remembering Genevieve Buck, a Tribune fashion editor who was stylish in person and in print
CHICAGO — Genevieve Buck entered the newspaper business when it was still a raucous, male-dominated world in which women were considered secondary. But over the next decades Buck would prove to be an influential and internationally admired fashion reporter and editor, business reporter and columnist, and feature story writer. She did so with a memorably deft touch. And she was as stylish in ...
by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
Sep 27, 2022
3 minutes
CHICAGO — Genevieve Buck entered the newspaper business when it was still a raucous, male-dominated world in which women were considered secondary.
But over the next decades Buck would prove to be an influential and internationally admired fashion reporter and editor, business reporter and columnist, and feature story writer. She did so with a memorably deft touch. And she was as stylish in person as in print.
Columnist Mike Royko, her colleague and friend when both worked for the Chicago Daily News in the late 1960s, once observed, shortly after
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