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Why Women Love Journalism

The Sunday Telegraph

Elizabeth Day was one of five women among the six finalists when elected Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards earlier this year. Here she describes her love affair with print journalism and observes: "None of the other, more established, awards had the same shortlist composition, suggesting that a new generation of women journalists is beginning to edge into the public consciousness. Now, more than ever, it seems that the future of journalism is female." She puts this down to the increase in celebrity journalism: "Who better to infiltrate this fast-paced world than a glamorous young woman, with the intelligence to use her feminine wiles? Celebrity gossip is a more extreme aspect of diary schmoozing and a watered-down version of the honey-trap. In both, women are able to capitalise on their assets to get a good story. Given that the readership of the gossip pages is mostly female, it also makes sense to employ women who know what other women want."

British Journalism Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 21-25 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0956474804046010


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