Opinion

Women Journalists Spurred Coverage of Children and Families

‘…I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn’t have children.’
March 15, 2002
Jane Daugherty

Spring 2002: Words & Reflections Introduction

“What does ‘good work’ in journalism look like?” This question is at the heart of a book written by three distinguished psychologists who set out to examine, through The Project…
March 15, 2002
Melissa Ludtke

Spring 2002: Women and Journalism Introduction

In her 2010 Niemen Reports essay, the late pioneering journalist Kay Mills observed that “in 2009, women were 34.8 per cent of newsroom supervisors and 37 percent of newsroom employees,…
March 15, 2002
Melissa Ludtke

‘The Girls in the Van’

What happened when a lot of women journalists reported on Hillary Clinton’s campaign?
March 15, 2002
Beth J. Harpaz

A Pioneering Generation Marked the Path For Women Journalists

Today, women’s roles and numbers have increased but some key issues remain unresolved.
March 15, 2002
Christy C. Bulkeley

The Value of Women Journalists

A journalist urges others to use their reporting skills to document gender discrepancies in their newsrooms.
March 15, 2002
Susan E. Reed

Salt Lake City, Utah, 1975

My friend D. reports that when the Vietnam War was winding down, his young son told him that he wanted to celebrate on the day the war ended. “How?” D.…
March 15, 2002
Steve Hale

Bicoastal

In the mid-80’s, I worked at an underground food co-op in Washington, D.C. One night when I was bagging raisins, I noticed that a woman was staring at me. Finally,…
March 15, 2002
Beth Kivel

Examining the Vanishing Standards in Reporting

‘Now one source, however flimsy, was okay.’
March 15, 2002
Robert Sherrill

Dangers Lie Beneath the Promise of the Internet

By using Web technology to tailor the news a user receives, does democracy suffer?
March 15, 2002
Katie King