Joan Riddell Cook (January 5, 1922, Portland, Oregon - February 5, 1995,New York City) was an American newspaper journalist and editor, a trade union leader, and a founding director of JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium). Cook died of breast cancer in 1995 in New York City.
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