Megan Kamerick – Women should represent women in Media – TEDxABQ

Megan Kamerick – Women should represent women in Media – TEDxABQ

How do you tell women’s stories? Ask women to tell them. At TEDxABQ, Megan Kamerick shows how the news media underrepresents women as reporters and news sources, and because of that tells an incomplete story.

 

HIghlights to look forward to:

19% of media stories are about women…

There are not enough women in newsrooms, in editor positions, or even journalist positions…

Journalists deal with their own biases, unconscious bias…

As readers, we get a distorted version of reality because the stories are missing the full perspective, specifically, the female perspective…

73% media leaders are men…

 

“A complete picture of reality may depend on it.”

She ends this riveting talk with this:  “I think you all agree that we’d be better of if we’d have the whole picture.”

 

I encourage you to watch it, and find your way to a more balanced media by demanding a whole perspective, that includes the women’s perspective.

 

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