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Diversity Through Precarity? Gender, Race, and Work in Digital Journalism

2024/06/01 by Nicole S. Cohen, Nicole Cohen, Shannon Clarke
Social Sciences · #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Labor Movements and Unions

paper · doi:10.3138/cjc-2022-0038

openalex publication_date 2024/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Background: Women have increased opportunities to participate in digital journalism, but racial and gender disparities are still pervasive in the industry. Analysis: Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews, this research examines ongoing experiences of women working in digital journalism in Canada from an intersectional perspective that attends to race, gender, and class. Conclusions and implications: In the context of an industry undergoing continual change and transformation, women of colour occupy more precarious forms of employment and work on more tenuous terrain. Employment status and its attendant securities and insecurities are a vital analytic for understanding women’s gendered and racialized experiences in journalism.

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