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As a female journalist, it might be difficult for you to know how or when to get a sports story that can really help bring in the readers. You might not know much about sports or how to get a good story from the game that has just been played. One thing you need to do before anything else is to research the sport that you’ll be writing about. You need to know who the past players were and what their past games Read the rest of this entry »

When women journalists sit down and speak about the path that they have taken you can find the tension in their voices. They will tell you how hard it has been to be a female journalist in yet another area that has been great dominated by men.

There are lots of female new anchors or television shows at a national level, but there are still so many news anchors and female journalists fighting on the lower levels. It is amazing to see so many talented female journalists get Read the rest of this entry »

Since the beginning of time, women have been competing with men to be equal. Over the years women have achieved many goals and have won several battles. Although the law would tell us that men and women are equal, there are still undertones of prejudice in this country especially in the world of business.

Journalism is like any other business and is extremely competitive. There are several things men and women have to do such as research and going Read the rest of this entry »

We have all heard this saying time and time again, “this is a man’s world,” and many tend to agree with that statement. Being a women is hard enough without having to deal with the views and opinions of society. Fortunately, women have had many victories over the years in several different areas of expertise. Studies have shown how women tend to have a higher level of tolerance and are able to multitask better than most men. The skills and God given characteristics of a women have enabled her Read the rest of this entry »

It has been long known that we faced a time where women were discriminated in the workplace. One of the industries women faced it the worst was in the public eye; the media. Often times, working in the news room as a women was merely a job as a assistant to a man. Over time these types of attitudes and behaviors have been changed. Before, you barely saw a women broadcasting the evening news, where as now you see them almost nightly on your TV Read the rest of this entry »

Many aspects of journalism are challenging, but one of the most difficult parts can be writing content that will appeal to others. Specifically, writing content for male readers as a female. The female point of view is often different than that of the male, and writing in a style that will appease male readers takes some thought.

Men use different language than women, and often expect articles and stories to be worded differently. Hooking a male reader is not always about creating a story, it is about creating a visual for them to picture Read the rest of this entry »