15 Facts About Melissa Ludtke

Melissa Ludtke was born on May 27,1951 and is an American journalist.

In 1978, as a young sports journalist, Ludtke won a lawsuit for the right to be allowed in Major League Baseball locker rooms.

Melissa Ludtke was born in Iowa City, Iowa, but grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Melissa Ludtke was the oldest of five children, her father worked at the University of Massachusetts where he taught finance, and her mother earned a Ph.

Melissa Ludtke attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History.

Melissa Ludtke always had a passion for sports, and upon graduation, she began working for ABC Sports and Sports Illustrated.

Melissa Ludtke then returned to Time to cover family and social policy.

Melissa Ludtke was a writer and editor for the Nieman Reports magazine of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1998 to 2011.

Melissa Ludtke then served as the Executive Director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University from 2011 to 2013.

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

In 1977, Melissa Ludtke sued the baseball commission on the basis that her 14th amendment rights were violated when she was denied access to the New York Yankees clubhouse while reporting on the 1977 World Series.

Melissa Ludtke was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1992.

Melissa Ludtke was a Prudential Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2010, Melissa Ludtke received the Yankee Quill Award, the highest individual honor bestowed on a journalist in New England.

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".