[ecrea] Challenges and Changes: Women in Journalism and Media (12th March 2014)

We would like to invite you to our MeCCSA Postgraduate Network event, Challenges and Changes: Women in Journalism and Media, on Wednesday 12th March 2014, at Liverpool John Moores University. The MeCCSA PGN in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University have organised a full-day event (9.30am - 5pm). Topics to be addressed during this event include: overarching issues for women in journalism and the media industry; the influences of women writers in both newspaper and literary journalism in Britain from the 1970s to the present; the continued (mis)representation of women in media content; online abuse of female journalists; the position of women's sports writers; the involvement of women in decision-making structures across European media institutions; diversity in the workplace.

This event is free but we would be grateful if you could register:www.meccsapgn1.eventbrite.com

If you have any questions, please email Charlotte Barlow ((cbarlow /at/ liverpool.ac.uk))

Confirmed speakers and panel members include: Prof. Karen Ross, Northumbria University; Prof. Suzanne Franks, City University; Prof. Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University; Deirdre O'Neill, Leeds Trinity University; Dr. Rhianne Jones, BBC; Dr. Vicky Canning and Dr. Helen Monk, Liverpool John Moores University; Prof. Haifa Takruri-Rizk, Salford University (and more tbc).

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This event is part of a series of MeCCSA PGN Regional Events on the Challenges and Changes in... Academic Publishing (Sussex), Women in Journalism&  Media (Liverpool), Peripheral Communities (Goldsmiths), Research Methods (Nottingham) and Teaching Media&  Cultural Studies (Birmingham).


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