BBC Women Reporting the World

Conversations with Foreign Correspondents
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-85197-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This book explores the changing experiences and roles of the BBC's female journalists. Featuring original interview content, the book focuses on the careers of female foreign correspondents, from Kate Adie to Shaimaa Khalil. It begins by examining the power structures and gender-based assumptions widespread in the BBC from its inception through to the 1970s and 1980s, when international reporting opportunities first opened up for women, and then charts the changes that took place between the 1980s to the 2020s, including the recent controversy surrounding pay inequality. Featuring insights and anecdotes from the women themselves, it will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the BBC, news journalism and gender, while also informing evolving academic debates around public service broadcasting, international news flows, media practice and issues of gender, race, class and power in the media industry.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murrell, Colleen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Monstrous Regiment

Introduction: The BBC's employment of women correspondents throughout the years

Chapter 1: Kate Adie, CBE, BBC Chief News Correspondent

Chapter 2: Diana Goodman, Correspondent in Bonn, East Germany and Moscow 1986-2000

Chapter 3: Elizabeth Blunt, MBE, West Africa Correspondent 1986-1990, India TV producer 1993-1994, Ethiopia Stringer 2007-2009

Chapter 4: Lyse Doucet, CM, OBE, Chief International Correspondent

Chapter 5: Orla Guerin, Senior International Correspondent based in Istanbul

Chapter 6: Carrie Gracie

Chapter 7: Sara Beck

Chapter 8: Caroline Wyatt

Chapter 9: Sara Rainsford

Chapter 10: Shaimaa Khalil

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Murrell is Professor of Journalism at Dublin City University, Ireland. In her previous career she worked as a producer, reporter and news editor for a number of international broadcasters including the BBC, ITN, AP, TF1, CBC and ABC Australia. Murrell is the author of  (2015) and tweets @ivorytowerjourn.