the.com/women journalists
they covered wars, courts, and coronations while being told the newsroom was no place for a lady.
means reporters, editors, and correspondents who happen to be women, a category that only exists because journalism spent two centuries assuming the byline was male.
from the term traces to the 19th century, when women broke into newsrooms through the side door of stunt reporting and society pages, then muscled their way to the front lines anyway.
nellie blyfaked insanity to expose asylum abuse, 1887.
press club bansnational press club barred women until 1971.
pulitzer gapfirst woman won solo pulitzer for reporting in 1937.
war zonesmarie colvin lost an eye covering sri lanka, kept reporting.
for instance
nellie bly — went undercover in a mental asylum, new york, 1887.
martha gellhorn — stormed normandy on d-day by hiding in a hospital ship bathroom.
marie colvin — killed reporting the siege of homs, syria, 2012.
christiane amanpour — defined cnn's war coverage from bosnia through baghdad.