Women and JournalismWomen and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain. Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn, Kate Adie and Veronica Guerin, the authors investigate the challenges women have faced in their struggle to establish reputations as professionals. This book provides an account of the gendered structuring of journalism in print, radio and television and speculates about women's still-emerging role in online journalism. Their accomplishments as war correspondents are tracked to the present, including a study of the role they played post-September 11th. |
Contents
womens entrance into the profession | 5 |
Women and public discourse in the age of new media | 14 |
a voice for women? | 28 |
Women journalists in the postwar period | 35 |
The education and training of women journalists | 63 |
One of the boys? Womens experiences of the glass ceiling | 82 |
Gendered newsroom cultures and values | 103 |
Challenges to sexism and discrimination | 125 |
Womens alternative print journalism of the second | 160 |
Womens alternative media in broadcasting and the Internet | 179 |
Women war correspondents | 196 |
Postmodern journalism and its implications for women | 216 |
women journalism and new media | 231 |
Notes | 241 |
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