Female Journalists

The Women of NPR

The Daily Beast | Posted 03.06.2012

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You're familiar with the stereotype: humorless, ever so slightly imperious, Birkenstock-wearing brown-rice enthusiasts. These are the women of NPR, fo...

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Journalism's 'Old Girls' Club'

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.05.2012

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We've come a long way since the 1970s, but in terms of women's achievement, NPR is still a notable outlier. Two years ago, Audie Cornish left her post...

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Meet Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Kate Adie

More.com | Posted 12.26.2011

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Reporting from war zones in Bosnia, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, covering disasters in Bangladesh, massacres in Rwanda and the siege of the I...

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Women Foreign Correspondents Face Many Hazards

The Washington Post | Emily Wax, Thursday, April 14, 8:44 PM | Posted 06.15.2011

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As a 28-year-old reporter about to cover Africa in 2002, I was sent to rural Virginia to attend hostile-environment training, where former British Roy...

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Writer/Editor Julie Taraska

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chauncey Zalkin

What does Julie Taraska make? She makes meaning of all the disparate design forces out there. Through her Product Placement series in New York - run...

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Byline Gender Gap: Why Women's Voices Are Underrepresented... And How We Can Change That

The Poynter Institute | Mallary Jean Tenore | Posted 11.17.2011

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By Mallary Jean Tenore The Poynter Institute Women have made the case for years that there aren't enough female voices in the opinion pages. The root...

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Global Girl Media: Bringing Out the Absent Voice

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tabby Biddle

Kamala Lopez, U.S. Program Director for Global Girl Media, is on a mission to nurture the voices of young women in underserved communities and developing nations. I recently sat down with Lopez for an interview.

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Lebanese News Station's Cowardice in Sex Braggart Scandal Makes Saudi Female Journalist the Scapegoat

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sabria Jawhar

Something got lost in all the outrage last week over the conviction and lashing sentence of the 22-year-old Saudi woman journalist who worked for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. What is the LBC doing to support their journalist?

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Goldberg: "[W]omen And Minorities" Have "Pushed The Newsroom Further And Further To The Left"

Media Matters For America | Posted 05.25.2011

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During the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, discussing what host Bill O'Reilly perceived as the waning influence of "major elite me...

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