Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space - Paperbackby Alice Fahs (Author) Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major cities especially New York from all parts of the United States. Newspaper women were part of a wave of women seeking new,