How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
Annette Young
Annette Young is a senior journalist and news presenter for France 24 Television, based in Paris. Originally from Australia, Annette has reported from parts of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In an extensive career, she has worked for the Melbourne Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and SBS Television Australia as a reporter, producer and in newsroom management. While based in the Middle East, she became a Jerusalem correspondent for France 24. Since returning to Paris in 2010, Annette has interviewed a range of figures for the network from world leaders to Hollywood actors. She also is the creator and host of The 51 Percent, a program about the women reshaping our world. In 2015, she was named by UN Women as one of the 20 inspirational global voices on women in the media. In December 2018, Annette was awarded the gold medal in broadcast journalism for the Ricardo Ortega prize given by the U.N. Correspondents’ Association.
We’re more than 21 years into the 21st century yet newsrooms are still lagging way behind in reaching gender parity in news coverage - both in terms of content and leadership. Covid-19 has dramatic...
It’s 2020 yet newsrooms are still lagging way behind in reaching gender parity in news coverage - both in terms of content and leadership. So which news outlets have been successful in addressing th...
How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
A commitment to gender equality, through both organisational structure and content, is a marker common to the news publishers studied in the latest report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of J...
