The news industry is still dominated by men. Yet women have exercised leadership in journalism and related media professions in a variety of ways, from moral leadership to experimenting with structural and technological innovations and pioneering new formats to serve new audiences. This book offers a robust account of women’s leadership in journalism, looking at what motivated women to become media leaders, the obstacles they overcame, and the strategies they used to solve problems and handle crises.
This book offers profiles of inspiring women in prominent media positions from the nineteenth century to today, beginning with trailblazers like abolitionist publisher Mary Ann Shadd and Memphis Free Speech anti-lynching editor Ida B. Wells. The book takes an in-depth look at the leadership styles of well-known media moguls like Oprah Winfrey and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Other chapters highlight women now emerging as media leaders, such as digital media executive S. Mitra Kalita and Iman Zawahry, a Muslim hijabi filmmaker. Bringing together cases from print, broadcast, public relations, film, and digital media, this book offers useful insights into how to be an effective leader in an ever-changing industry.
Foreword to the Series
New Foreword to the Series
A Brief History of Making It as a Media Leader by Linda Steiner
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Embodying Intersectionality Through 1850s Newspaper Publishing by Tracy Everbach
Ida B. Wells: Journalist Warrior for Justice by Michelle Duster
Mary Margaret McBride: A Journalist Finds Time, Space, and Her Pace by Sadie Couture
Katharine Meyer Graham: A Complicated Person Confronting Complicated Problems by Linda Steiner
Joan Ganz Cooney: Television Pioneer by Amy Jordan
Ann Barkelew: Leadership Lessons in Public Relations by Elizabeth L. Toth
Oprah Winfrey: A Rise from Poverty to Talk-Show Host and More by Constance Mitchell Ford
Frances “Franco” Stevens: Raising Lesbian Visibility Through Magazine (Re)Making by Stine Eckert
Lisa Bell Wilson: A Calm, Confident Leader Through Triumph and Tragedy by Shannon Scovel and Kevin Blackistone
S. Mitra Kalita: Changing Newsrooms, One Story at a Time by Paromita Pain
Iman Zawahry: A Muslim Hijabi Filmmaker Using Humor to Shatter Stereotypes by Nahed Eltantawy and Chloe Terani
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
Foreword to the Series vii
New Foreword to the Series xi
A Brief History of Making It as a Media Leader 1
Linda Steiner
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Embodying Intersectionality
through 1850s Newspaper Publishing 36
Tracy Everbach
Ida B. Wells: Journalist Warrior for Justice 49
Michelle Duster
Mary Margaret McBride: A Journalist Finds Time,
Space, and Her Pace 65
Sadie Couture
Katharine Meyer Graham: A Complicated Person
Confronting Complicated Problems
80
Linda Steiner
Joan Ganz Cooney: Television
Pioneer 96
Amy Jordan
Ann Barkelew: Leadership Lessons in Public
Relations 107
Elizabeth L. Toth
Oprah Winfrey: A Rise from Poverty to Talk-Show
Host and More 122
Constance Mitchell Ford
Frances “Franco” Stevens: Raising Lesbian
Visibility through Magazine (Re)Making 138
Stine Eckert
Lisa Bell Wilson: A Calm, Confident Leader
through Triumph and Tragedy 152
Shannon Scovel and Kevin Blackistone
S. Mitra
Kalita: Changing Newsrooms, One Story
at a Time 167
Paromita Pain
Iman Zawahry: A Muslim Hijabi Filmmaker
Using Humor to Shatter Stereotypes
181
Nahed Eltantawy and Chloe Terani
Acknowledgments
195
Contributors 197
Index 000
