Tag: women in journalism

All news outlets should rethink field safety when sending reporters alone on assignment

A young TV reporter in West Virginia recently was struck by a vehicle while reporting on a water main break. The local NBC-affiliate where she worked never broke from the story, even as it was clear she had been run over.  WSAZ-TV  stayed live as Tori Yorgey yelped and exclaimed, “I just got hit by…

Nebraska women push for work-life balance in newsroom, media jobs

When longtime Omaha World-Herald reporter Cindy Gonzalez had her first child in 1991, her water broke in the newsroom On deadline, she finished the story after she got to the hospital. In a parallel scenario in 2015, former Omaha World-Herald copy editor Courtney Pitts Mattern would finish her assignments during health emergencies even when she…