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Vivian Smith - Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers - 9781442650015 - V9781442650015
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Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers

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Description for Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers hardcover. 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? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSJ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.

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themselves and about what they write, Smith reveals in Outsiders Still how overt hostility to women in the newsroom has been replaced by systemic inequality that limits or ends the careers of many female journalists.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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650015
SKU
V9781442650015
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Vivian Smith
Vivian Smith, PhD, is a journalist, media consultant, and sessional instructor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. She is a former National Beats Editor at The Globe and Mail whose freelance work has appeared in the Globe, National Post, Canadian Living, ROB Magazine, and Maclean’s.

Reviews for Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers
“Smith’s book should be a must read for everyone with an interest in working in Canadian journalism.”
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

Goodreads reviews for Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers


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