“ Collectively, women’s magazines—by which I mean the whole field, from fashion titles like Vogue and Elle to health publications like Self and Women’s Health to the more general sex-and-diet-tips mags like Glamour or Cosmopolitan (does that even still exist?)—reach millions upon millions of readers each month. So the lack of willingness to cover globally important topics is dismaying. It’s a colossal missed opportunity…
…[There are] some serious institutional problems, and these can lead to 1) lack of coverage of important topics, 2) less-than-completely-truthful coverage of important topics, and 3) complete and utter bullshit coverage of important topics.
…[There are] some serious institutional problems, and these can lead to 1) lack of coverage of important topics, 2) less-than-completely-truthful coverage of important topics, and 3) complete and utter bullshit coverage of important topics.
Hillary Rosner, Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags.
Rosner, a freelance science writer and former Knight Fellow at MIT, shares (frustrating) anecdotes about trying to write serious science journalism for women’s magazines.
(via futurejournalismproject)(Source: futurejournalismproject)
