What are the biggest challenges facing women journalists today?
BC: Women have made major gains since I first started my career and was one of a handful of women in the newsroom. Back then, the major journalism clubs wouldn’t even admit women as members. Today women are as much as 40 percent of some newsroom staffs. The recent announcement that Diane Sawyer would replace Charles Gibson as anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight means two of the three network flagship news broadcasts will be anchored by women. The big question is how to preserve those gains and continue to make advances at a time of cutbacks and layoffs. To survive in the current environment, women and men are going to need to embrace technology, learn new skills and become versatile and flexible. Women will need to think entrepreneurially about their careers; they are much more likely to freelance or to operate their own businesses than to work for a large organization. Women will need to acquire skills in business, negotiations and marketing, in addition to the basic skills of good jou
