The Mini Page facts for kids
The Mini Page is a syndicated newspaper supplement for children, created by Betty Debnam in 1969 and authored by her and two other writers.
Awards
In 1999, as the Mini Page celebrated its thirtieth anniversary, Debnam was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame and received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newspaper Association of America. Debnam was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers' hall of fame in 2001, and the Raleigh Hall of Fame in 2013. She won a 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the AEP for The Mini Page Guide to the Constitution, a nine-part series that was released as a book by Andrews McMeel after appearing in newspapers.
Betty Debnam
Debnam credits her inspiration for the Mini Page to her family, especially her grandmother, who ran a small weekly newspaper in Snow Hill, North Carolina. Her grandfather was a school superintendent and edited the newspaper; her father was a newspaper reporter in Norfolk, Virginia. Debnam was married to Richard Hunt, a former Associated Press reporter and military adviser to Hubert Humphrey. Died November1, 2020
Additional articles
- Broadwell, Charles. "The Mini Page's seal of approval." Fayetteville Observer, 2001-11-04.
- Drevets, Trivia. "She meshes teaching with newspapers." Editor & Publisher, 1987-01-17, p. 44.
- Hellinger, Dan. "Post's Mini Page brainwashes children." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1999-02-01.
