Guest Post – Channel 5 Editor Cait FitzSimons tells Lis Howell why C5 News has a consistently higher ratio of female to male experts than other programmes……. and staved off the male politicians during the Covid-19 crisis…..

Cait says “I’ve been working in news for more than 20 years. In that time, TV journalism has become more fast-paced and more demanding. Multi-skilling is now the norm. Teams are smaller and often produce content for multiple platforms. There are more women in positions of power and diversity is at the centre of editorial and …

Guest Post: Lis Howell asked former student Barney Weston What It Was Like to Be a Monitor

Barney Weston is now a podcast producer for Extinction Rebellion among other things! “Counting the gender of experts appearing on broadcast news programmes was a bit of a whirlwind experience, emotionally, whilst I was studying towards my MA in Broadcast Journalism at City, University of London. Having first arrived on the course – in the …

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