The Goal of the Blog

This blog will attempt to answer the question: What career barriers do women reporter face on television news? Television news is extremely influential and has become a main source of information for many people. There are two types of news stories, soft news and hard news. Soft news typically includes topics such as human interests stories, entertainment, and education. Hard news consists of politics, war, and economics. Typically, women are seen reporting the softs new, while men report the hard news, but why is that? Is it psychologically more appealing to viewers to see a woman reporter covering stories about education, while a man covering politics is more credible? It is believed that network choose men and women to represent different types of news stories, and through research and analysis, this blog will shed light on the barriers women news anchors face.

This is a research project being conducted by 3 students in COMM111 at the University of Michigan in the Communication Department.

University of Michigan Communication Department Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/comm