Name: Women should represent women in media
Uploaded: 2012-06-17T14:00:10Z
Duration: 10 min 14 s
Description: 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.

Who makes the news?

At the very end of the talk, I mistakenly said I saw the video I show in 2007, when I was a student in London. I meant to say it was in 1987. I guess I was more nervous than I realized!

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.

Women should represent women in media

Women make up half the world yet are quoted in only 24 percent of news stories and just 20 percent of expert sources. Media often frames women as victims or sidelines their perspectives, even in coverage of gender-based violence. When women report and edit, stories challenge stereotypes and offer fuller context. Including more women in newsrooms and leadership leads to richer, more representative journalism.