Women in journalism
More and more women have entered journalism in the last 20-30 years and they outnumber men in journalism education by far. Women are though still under 40% of members of the two Icelandic union of journalists and few women hold top positions in media organisations. Media companies were badly hit in...
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Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom
2015
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| author | Jóhannsdóttir, Valgerður |
| author2 | Wadbring, Ingela Nordicom |
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| description | More and more women have entered journalism in the last 20-30 years and they outnumber men in journalism education by far. Women are though still under 40% of members of the two Icelandic union of journalists and few women hold top positions in media organisations. Media companies were badly hit in the financial crash in 2008 and many journalist lost their job. No research has been done on the effect this has had on women and men in journalism, but data from the membership registration of the journalist unions indicates that proportionaly more women than men were laid off or left the profession in the years after the crash |
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| op_relation | Nordicom-Information 37 (2015) 2, pp. 33-40 978-91-87957-09-3 0349-5949 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39395 |
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| spelling | ftunivgoeteborg:oai:gupea.ub.gu.se:2077/39395 2025-01-16T22:32:42+00:00 Women in journalism the situation in Iceland Jóhannsdóttir, Valgerður Wadbring, Ingela Nordicom 2015-05 18 p. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39395 eng eng Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom Nordicom-Information 37 (2015) 2, pp. 33-40 978-91-87957-09-3 0349-5949 http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39395 gender journalism news women journalists Iceland Text article, peer reviewed scientific 2015 ftunivgoeteborg 2023-10-04T21:19:39Z More and more women have entered journalism in the last 20-30 years and they outnumber men in journalism education by far. Women are though still under 40% of members of the two Icelandic union of journalists and few women hold top positions in media organisations. Media companies were badly hit in the financial crash in 2008 and many journalist lost their job. No research has been done on the effect this has had on women and men in journalism, but data from the membership registration of the journalist unions indicates that proportionaly more women than men were laid off or left the profession in the years after the crash Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Gothenburg: GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive) |
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| title | Women in journalism |
| title_full | Women in journalism |
| title_fullStr | Women in journalism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women in journalism |
| title_short | Women in journalism |
| title_sort | women in journalism |
| topic | gender journalism news women journalists Iceland |
| topic_facet | gender journalism news women journalists Iceland |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/39395 |