As soon as I corrected them, I could always feel that shift in tone and deals that were almost done would be dropped. Having the title ‘Dr’ in my name gave me access to people who would never give me a chance, but my mentor mentioned to me that people will always look at me as a woman who just had children and think ‘how will she manage’ yet I am managing just fine.
When I left IQ4News and went back to full time academia (as a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University), I spent time reflecting on my experiences. I wanted to create a real impact. I did a lot of research for over two years and, particularly in America, I came across a lot of groups of women in content production. It wasn’t until I travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa to receive the CNN award that the idea struck me. We had a forum and the main conversation was, ‘Where are the women in media’? That very evening, in the hotel room, I put up the business plan for AWiM and I knew that, the next year,
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LONDON Hours after an interview with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, was broadcast in the United States on Sunday, Britain was already grappling with the shock wave rippling out across the Atlantic, exposing a deep royal rift. In the two-hour prime time interview with Oprah Winfrey to be shown in Britain Monday night Meghan and Harry spoke frankly about what drove them away from Britain last year, taking a sharp turn from the default.
One reason Meghan suffered racist UK coverage: The media is not diverse By: CNN
(CNN) When British newspapers first broke the news of Prince Harry s relationship with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, one Mail Online headline declared that she was (almost) straight outta Compton. Around the same time, The Daily Star ran a headline asking whether Harry would marry into gangster royalty?
The first round of headlines back in 2016 played on harmful stereotypes and helped set the tone for how parts of the UK media, and especially its tabloid newspapers, would treat this newcomer to the royal family who stood out in one very obvious way: her race.
Caught between a hate-filled media and a terrified royal family, the surprise is not that the couple struck out on their own. It’s that they didn’t escape much sooner