Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers
Vivian Smith
Despite years of dominating journalism school classrooms across North America, women remain vastly underrepresented at the highest levels of newspaper leadership. Why do so many female journalists leave the industry and so few reach the top?
Interviewing female journalists at daily newspapers across Canada, Vivian Smith – who spent fourteen years at The Globe and Mail as a reporter, editor, and manager – finds that many of the obstacles that women face in the newspaper industry are the same now as they have been historically, made worse by the challenging times in which the industry finds itself. The youngest fear ... Read more
Listening carefully to the stories these journalists tell, both about themselves and about what they write, Smith reveals in Outsiders Still how overt hostility to women in the newsroom has been replaced by systemic inequality that limits or ends the careers of many female journalists. Despite decades of contributions to society’s news agenda, women print journalists are outsiders still.
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Catherine McKercher, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Carlton University
j-source.ca, June 22, 2015
“I suggest you give Outsiders Still by Vivian Smith as a gift to a journalism student near you, just in case the J-school forgets to put it on ... Read more