Margaret E Ward: Irish media has a problem with women

Women make up fewer than one-third of Irish media professionals, even less at top level. How can the industry report on society if it doesn’t reflect it, asks Margaret E Ward

Mon, 15 Feb, 2021 - 06:30

Margaret E. Ward

Historians use newspapers and media clips to study the past and how we lived in it.

But if any of us analysed Irish media today what might we find?

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