Theres No Crying in Newsrooms, Julia Wallace
Theres No Crying in Newsrooms, Julia Wallace
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There's No Crying in Newsrooms
What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

Author: Julia Wallace, Kristin Grady Gilger, Campbell Brown

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 6 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/05/2019

Synopsis

There's No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women who broke through barrier after barrier at media organizations around the country over the past four decades. They started out as editorial assistants, fact checkers, and news secretaries and ended up running multi-million-dollar news operations that determine a large part of what Americans read, view, and think about the world. These women, who were calling in news stories while in labor and parking babies under their desks, never imagined that forty years later young women entering the news business would face many of the same battles they did—only with far less willingness to put up and shut up.

The female pioneers in There's No Crying in Newsrooms have many lessons to teach about what it takes to succeed in media or any other male-dominated organization, and their message is more important now than ever before.

About Julia Wallace

Julia Wallace was a top media executive and high-ranking editor at four major newspapers. She spent more than twenty years as a top editor and was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement. In 2017, she joined the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University as the Frank Russell Chair.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jane on November 04, 2019

2.5, rounding down. I think I wanted this book to be something it wasn't. While I appreciated hearing myriad stories of women in media, I found it almost disheartening to hear about so many of the struggles that lie in front of me, and finished this book legitimately wanting to leave the industry. I......more

Goodreads review by Penny on July 09, 2019

Mentors, professors and parents should recommend No Crying in the Newsroom to any aspiring journalist. An engaging and informative read full of insightful anecdotes and stories. The authors – trailblazers in their own right -- share the wisdom gained by homesteading female pioneers who, over the pas......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on June 30, 2019

Loved this!......more

Goodreads review by Isabel on January 25, 2021

4/5 stars. This short book is packed full of stories and advice from countless women in journalism ranging from those who started their careers in the very male-dominated 1960s/70s newsrooms to the entrepreneurial women journalists running media sites like Vox and HuffPost. Each of the nine chapters......more

Goodreads review by Wanda on July 23, 2019

This book is a great and fast read about the small community of women who have been leaders in media organizations, and how the organizations handled the diviersity of gender. The co-authors -- both journalists and now journalism professors -- interviewed dozens of women about the good, the bad and......more

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