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Breann Schossow
Multimedia Journalist
My running coach, Elle. Trust me, she bites at the back of my legs when I’m not going fast enough.
Au Revoir, Virginia. Minnesota, here I come (for now*)!
* More details soon.
Here’s today’s issue of the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram with the story I blogged about yesterday about the friendships of formal Uniroyal employees.
You can read my story here. You can also read a fellow reporter’s outstanding story about the reflections of workers who lost their jobs in the shutdown 20 years ago here.
This incredible package is exactly what I want to do with my profession - expose the truth about injustices by telling people’s stories.
This is beautiful, CNN.
Photo is ©CNN.
The Old Girls’ Club sat in a corner of the newsroom the men referred to as “the fallopian jungle,” and swiftly became the broadcaster’s earliest stars.
How NPR Became A Hotbed For Female Journalists (via @thedailybeast)
“It was a period in which most news outlets were openly hostile to the very notion of hiring a female correspondent. ‘All of us have stories of being told, outright, ‘We don’t hire women’ or ‘We have our woman’,’ she says.
In part, Totenberg says, NPR had no choice: salaries were so low that few men were willing to take jobs there. The inadvertent result was a roster of young female talent now considered among the most respected names in radio: Totenberg, Cokie Roberts, Linda Wertheimer, and Susan Stamberg, a group affectionately known as the ‘Founding Mothers’.”
Neat!
(via newsweek)
