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Una Marson was a pioneering colonial broadcaster from Jamaica who was the first Black woman to work for the BBC. She produced and presented its Overseas Service programs Calling the West Indies and Caribbean Voices. Recently, scholars have revisited her work, but they have not acknowledged her legacy in a way that befits her accomplishments in radio. We find this observation revealing and have traced concrete actions by the BBC to erase her contributions to transborder radio broadcasting. This study considers how race, ethnicity, gender, and colonialism contributed to her obscurity and insights into the burial of her broadcasting legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time of growing threats to the press worldwide, including in supposedly 'safe' developed democracies, this article explores the nature of harassment perpetrated by strangers, one-time sources, and viewers against women broadcast journalists working at US local television stations. The study investigates the emotional labor – the work of managing one's emotions to keep others happy – that is required for journalists negotiating such harassment. Through qualitative interviews, our research shows that women in such roles face four main types of harassment: (1) disruptive in-person harassment, (2) physical and abrasive in-person harassment, (3) online harassment as unwanted sexual advances, and (4) online harassment as threats and criticisms. We find that women perform a significant degree of emotional labor as they regularly deal with harassment and simultaneously attempt to mitigate or prevent further harassment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radio played a paradoxical role in the Cold War, embraced both as a key tool for propaganda warfare as well as for promoting peace and understanding. Women, too, played paradoxical roles both in radio and on the world stage. In this paper we will attempt to explore these intersecting paradoxes in a transnational perspective by focusing on The International Association of Women in Radio and Television, founded in 1951. This international network of women provides insights into how women broadcasters viewed radio and themselves in the global ideological struggles of the Cold War. Exploring the organization's international networking practices, its positioning within international women's movements, as well as their conceptions of the relationship between women and radio, we show how in each of these arenas, despite a belief in a universal womanhood and striving for a global organization, the organization can be seen falling into the emerging Western camp of the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines gendered communication patterns in the only all-female sports panel talk show on U.S. television, We Need to Talk (WNTT), and an all-male sports panel, Sunday Countdown Show (SCS). This article first provides a brief historical overview of women in sports broadcasting, then an explanation of the types of powerless language assessed, and finally the results of examining segments of both shows for instances of "powerless" language. The exploration of whether women on WNTT use powerless language allows for a consideration of the maintenance of gender assignments in sports broadcasting. Contrary to existing literature (Burrell & Koper, 1998; Eliasoph, 1987; Leaper & Robnett, 2011; Lakoff, 1975; Tottie & Hoffman, 2006) and cultural expectations, findings indicate women from WNTT use fewer instances of hedges, tag questions, and interruptions in the segments analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how Australian women broadcasters used radio to claim their own voices as experts on international affairs and encourage other women to become active world citizens in the 1930s. During a decade when the Great Depression limited the ability of many to travel, and the increasing calamity of the rise of fascism and the descent into World War II brought foreign affairs to the forefront of public debate, broadcasting became a key tool used by internationalist women to educate their female listeners about the world beyond Australia's shores. They also used the medium to encourage other women to become actively involved in international causes including feminism, peace activism and Zionism. Through their broadcasts, women such as Constance Duncan, Irene Greenwood and Ruby Rich demonstrated the value of radio as a tool for active citizenship and further opened up the public sphere to women's voices and opinions on social and political issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the highlights of the 2021 Gala Ball and Awards Night at the MEDCON21 of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Western Australia (WA) held in Perth in June. Topics discussed include the role of broadcaster Karen Tighe as host of the event, plans of AMA president and doctor Mark Duncan-Smith shared at the event, and the honorees at the ball such as professor Meredith Borland and doctor Norman Swan.

The article discusses the emergence of shock radio and the phenomenal impact of radio broadcasting that feature women broadcasters. It cites a generation of women radio personalities and programmers that push cultural boundaries including Carolyn Fox, Sara Clark, and Jenn Garrison. It mentions the infamous talk show programmer Liz Wilde who charges national airwaves in more than 30 syndicate stations with controversial shock jock talk on-air.

For more than a decade now, it has been demonstrated that female news sources receive little attention in television news. Usually women account for no more than 20-25 percent of total time devoted to people speaking in the news. This article assesses when exactly female news sources are depicted in the news, using a dataset of 25,896 news items and 1600 hours of television, covering public broadcasting and commercial television in Belgium (Flanders) for the years 2003-5. The analysis shows that female news sources are strongly stereotyped and limited to traditional 'female' topics. The impact of the gender of the reporter was limited. Contrary to expectations, the broadcasting corporation with a long-standing gender diversity policy actually scored worse than its counterpart without such a policy. The article concludes with a discussion of the apparently difficult relation between traditional news standards and the depiction of gender diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the portrayal of women in Broadcasting magazine, the premier trade publication of the broadcasting industry, during the 1950s. Using a random sample of forty issues that appeared during the decade, images of women were coded and then analyzed using frames. Four dominant frames emerged: women as sex objects or decoration; women as housewives; women displaying stereotypical behaviors; and women as professionals. The article argues that positive portrayals of women as professionals were heavily outweighed in the magazine by stereotypical portrayals with far more scantily clad models appearing than female station managers. For example, the study found that 85 percent of the images showed women as decoration or in stereotypical roles or behaviors while only 12 percent of the images showed women in roles as off-air broadcast professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines gender representation of news professionals within broadcast news. Using a gender model, the development of female news professionals is examined by looking at their relative representation across local and national news according to story length and type. Results show that the proportion of females is higher in local news segments of both "hard" (including war) and "soft" news than within national news segments. Further, an interaction between perceived age of the newscaster and story length suggests that younger women are seen more often in shorter news segments than more seasoned female newscasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the role of women DJs and their positioning within electronic/ dance music culture, which is overwhelmingly dominated by men. The Sisterdjs listserv is an educating and encouraging space for its participants with very few offline equivalents. Using Butler's theory of performativity, I argue that list discourse positively impacts the identity construction of women DJs by drawing attention to the ways that women are discursively positioned at the intersections of music, technology, and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on noted Canadian folklorist, author, broadcaster, and song collector Edith Fowke. She began her fieldwork in Peterborough County in the rural areas of Ontario, which she found to be her richest source of traditional songs. A native of the place, Michael Towns recalls Fowke's early visits and recordings of local folk singers like Mary Towns, John Leahy and his descendant musicians, and Dave McMahon. The author traces Leahy's roots and how he learned old folk songs and stories that he sang about.

Examines the role of women broadcasters during war times in Israel. Reasons for the male-dominated broadcasting industry in the country; Contradictory processes faced by Israeli women during war times; Factors that create restriction of women participating in public roles.

Evaluates women as constructivists and as proceduralists in relationship to success as academics in broadcast communications. Comparison of women having contrasting epistemological perspectives; Questionnaire items use to identify constructivists and proceduralists; Responses to the research question.