Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism
224 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:17 Jun 2025
ISBN:9781978834248
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism
Edited by Linda Steiner
Rutgers University Press
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.
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.
This book offers material not available elsewhere. Through a series of well-written biographical essays it chronicles various paths to leadership undertaken by a diverse set of women in different media positions. By showing that one size doesn't fit all, it offers useful guidance to young women as they start their careers. It also contributes an overlooked dimension to the history of women in American media.
LINDA STEINER is a professor and associate dean for faculty affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She is the coauthor or coeditor of more than ten books, including We Can Do Better: Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication, also published by Rutgers University Press.
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