Mary Perot Nichols (1926-1996) was a columnist at and city editor of The Village Voice, a prominent alternative weekly newspaper. Nichols’ work contributed to averting the plan by powerful city planner Robert Moses to put a highway through Greenwich Village. Nichols was appointed to head the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC) in 1978, and went on to serve three tenures leading the media organization.
Mary Perot Nichols is on Wikimedia NYC’s list of 400 significant New Yorkers who lack or lacked pages on Wikipedia. We published this new bio during the Women Do News/Wikimedia NYC Edit-a-thon on July 17.