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.

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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.

Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media

Women should represent women in media

Women constitute half the world's population yet are underrepresented in media, affecting societal perceptions and realities.

A stark example: Hillary Clinton vanished from a photo by an Orthodox Jewish newspaper, illuminating how women can be erased from media.

The inclusion of female reporters can challenge stereotypes, offering a more nuanced and complete depiction of global issues.