[Commlist] New book: BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

Prof Colleen Murrell (DCU) would like to draw your attention to her book 
'BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign 
Correspondents' (Palgrave Macmillan, Sep 2025).
The book is available in paperback (€26.74) and ebook (€21.39) and can 
be bought via the publisher's website or via Amazon, Waterstones and 
other good 
bookshops.https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85198-8 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85198-8>

ISBN 978-3-031-85197-1
ISBN 978-3-031-85198-8 (ebook)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85198-8 
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85198-8>

Palgrave Macmillan imprint published in 2025 by Springer Nature, Cham: 
Switzerland

Subject areas: International reporting, public service broadcasting, 
gender In media, foreign correspondents, BBC, journalism, media and 
communications.


Abstract:
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 debates around public service broadcasting, international news 
flows, media practice and issues of gender, race, class and power in the 
media industry.


The table of contents (11 chapters, 227 pages):

1) The BBC’s Employment of Women Correspondents Through the Years, pp 1-16
2) Kate Adie, pp 17-41
3) Diana Goodman, pp 43-65
4) Elizabeth Blunt, pp 67-85
5) Lyse Doucet, pp 87-107
6) Orla Guerin, pp 109-130
7) Carrie Gracie, pp 131-149
8) Sara Beck, pp 151-167
9) Caroline Wyatt, pp 169-187
10) Sarah Rainsford pp 189-206
11) Shaimaa Khalil pp 207-222


The book was reviewed very positively in the Irish Times (16 Dec 
2025):https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/12/16/reporting-from-the-frontlines-still-battling-notion-of-an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/ 
<https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/12/16/reporting-from-the-frontlines-still-battling-notion-of-an-unsuitable-job-for-a-woman/>

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