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- Teri Pecoskie
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- Madeleine White
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- Lauren O’Neil
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- Alex Hering
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- Gloria Er Chua
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- Fabiola Carletti
We’ve introduced ourselves on the Toronto Star intern blog.
According to Roger Gillespie–senior editor, training and development–the post has been attracting lots of traffic from both twitter and facebook.
In a profession that used to be an old boy’s club, this set of fresh faces does indicate that something big is (and has been) changing in journalism. At the face of things, I’m very proud . . . but I do want to make something clear.
All of these amazing female journalists are much more than pretty young faces. We’re coming up through the system, and we’re getting ready to claim more corner offices.
As the following video illustrates, this progress isn’t something to be taken for granted. The narrator mentions news women about 5:00 minutes in, but quickly notes that they basically stick to the women’s pages, writing about household tips and social events: “Women find it difficult to compete with men in general reporting jobs.”
(Although I have no interest in the attractive arrangement of a table, I’d make a stronger case for reporters who work the phones.) Continue reading
