BBC Women Reporting the World

Conversations with Foreign Correspondents

Colleen Murrell

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031851971
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031851988
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book explores the changing experiences and roles of the BBC's female journalists. Featuring original interview content, the book focuses on the careers of female foreign correspondents, from Kate Adie to Shaimaa Khalil. It begins by examining the power structures and gender-based assumptions widespread in the BBC from its inception through to the 1970s and 1980s, when international reporting opportunities first opened up for women, and then charts the changes that took place between the 1980s to the 2020s, including the recent controversy surrounding pay inequality. Featuring insights and anecdotes from the women themselves, it will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the BBC, news journalism and gender, while also informing evolving academic debates around public service broadcasting, international news flows, media practice and issues of gender, race, class and power in the media industry.

Table of contents

• BBC Women Reporting the World
• Preface: The Monstrous Regiment
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• The BBC’s Employment of Women Correspondents Through the Years
• Kate Adie, CBE, Former BBC Chief News Correspondent Currently freelance presenter of ‘From our Own Correspondent’ on BBC World Service & Radio 4
• Diana Goodman Correspondent in Bonn, East Berlin and Moscow (1986–2000)
• Elizabeth Blunt, MBE, West Africa Correspondent 1986–1990, India TV producer 1993–1994 & Ethiopia Stringer, 2007–2009
• Lyse Doucet, CM, OBE, Chief International Correspondent Previously worked as a correspondent in Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan and Israel
• Orla Guerin Senior International Correspondent based in Istanbul. Orla has worked as a BBC correspondent previously based in Los Angeles, Rome, Jerusalem, Johannesburg and Islamabad
• Carrie Gracie WS China Reporter, NCA China reporter, China Correspondent and China Editor
• Sara Beck Bureau Chief in Moscow, Jerusalem and Singapore, Head of the Russian Service and BBC Monitoring
• Caroline Wyatt Presenter on Radio 4 PM. Formerly Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Defence and Religious Affairs Correspondent
• Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe Correspondent, previously a correspondent in Moscow (twice), Istanbul, Madrid and Havana
• Shaimaa Khalil Tokyo Correspondent (Previously Islamabad and Sydney Correspondent)
• Appendix
• Glossary
• BBC Journalists & Presenters
• Index