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.

List 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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Colleen Murrell
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9783031851971
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3185197-1
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 14 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Illustrations: XV, 237 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Internationale Beziehungen, Gender Studies, Medienwissenschaften, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Equal pay, foreign policy, News Journalism, Writing and Reporting, Peace and Conflict Studies, Media and Gender, Public Service Broadcasting, Orla Guerin, Diana Goodman, Carrie Grace, foreign correspondents, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, journalism and gender, newsgathering, BBC centenary, female reporters, Marie Colvin, Caroline Wyatt, Lyse Doucet, Kate Adie