BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents
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.

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BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents
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.

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BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

by Colleen Murrell
BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents
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BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

by Colleen Murrell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783031851971
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date: 08/07/2025
Pages: 237
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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 Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers (2015) and tweets @ivorytowerjourn.

Table of Contents

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.

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