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

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Vivian Smith

Outsiders Still

Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers

Vivian Smith

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University of Toronto Press
25 March 2015

Gender studies: women; Press & journalism

"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 TheGlobe 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 they will have to choose between a career and a family; mid-career women madly juggle the pressures of work and family while worrying that they are not ""good mothers""; and the most senior reflect on decades of accomplishments mixed with frustration at newsroom sexism that has held them back.

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and about what they write, Smith reveals in Outsiders Still how overt hostility to women in the newsroom has been replaced by systemic inequality that limits or ends the careers of many female journalists.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

By: Vivian Smith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781442650015
ISBN 10: 144265001X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 25 March 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 her reading list. It may well be the most valuable thing she learns all year. -- Shannon Rupp TheTyee.ca, 22 Aug 2015