Melissa Ludtke

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melissa Ludtke
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1951(1951-05-27)
Age	73
Birthplace	Iowa City
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Melissa Ludtke Biography

Melissa Ludtke is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 27, 1951 in Iowa City, United States. Melissa Ludtke, born May 27, 1951, is an American journalist. Ludtke was a young sports journalist who won a lawsuit in 1978 for the right to enter Major League Baseball locker rooms.

Ludtke worked as a journalist and editor for Nieman Reports, Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism magazine from 1998 to 2011. From 2011 to 2013, she was the executive director of Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative journalism. She was a journalist/researcher at Sports Illustrated, CBS News and Time magazine before becoming the editor of Nieman Foundation.

In July 2013, Ludtke was featured in Let Them Wear Towels, a short documentary on females working in male locker rooms by Anne Sundberg and Ricki Stern.

When asked how the case, Ludtke vs. Kuhn, has impacted journalism she said “It increased enormously the number of young women who came into sports media — as reporters, as employees of sports teams and league offices, in agencies representing athletes and in other aspects of sports work that earlier generations of women had not been involved with, such as working as team trainers or as umpires.”

Ludtke was a plaintiff against a federal lawsuit, Melissa Ludtke & Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, Melissa Ludtke v. Bowie Kuhn, Commissar of Baseball et. al. (1978) is the year that women sports reporters were allowed equal access to Major League Baseball locker room. Ludtke sued baseball commission in 1977 claiming that her 14th Amendment rights were violated by being denied access to the New York Yankees Clubhouse for reporting on the 1977 World Series. The lawsuit was won by her. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that her fourteenth Amendment right had been violated because the New York Yankees clubhouse is controlled by New York City. The court also found that her fundamental right of pursuit of a career was being violated because she sex.

Melissa Ludtke Net Worth

Melissa Ludtke is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Ludtke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ludtke was raised in Amherst (Massachusetts), but her birthplace is Iowa City, Iowa. Her father was a professor of finance at the University of Massachusetts, while her mother received a Ph.D. from anthropology. She was the youngest of five children. Ludtke graduated from Wellesley College, Wellesley MA in 1973 with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History.

Ludtke was married to Eric Lincoln in 1978. Ludtke and Lincoln split in 1982.

In 2010, Ludtke received the Yankee Quill Award, the highest individual honor bestowed on a journalist in New England. At Sports Illustrated, she was given a Front Page Award, and at Time was the recipient of several journalism awards. In 2012, Ludtke was nominated by the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as one of the “100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years”.

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Melissa Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Melissa Ludtke celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.