There's No Crying in Newsrooms

Kristin Grady Gilger is Senior Associate Dean at one of the nation’s leading journalism schools, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She also serves as director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, both of which are housed at the Cronkite School. Prior to joining ASU in 2002, Gilger spent 20 years in various reporting and editing roles at newspapers across the country. Julia Wallace was a top media executive and high-ranking editor at four major newspapers. She spent more than 20 years as a top editor and was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was inducted into the Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement. In 2017, she joined the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University as the Frank Russell Chair.

Foreword: We Learn From Each Other’s Experiences, and We Have Lots to Learn
Campbell Brown

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Updated Edition : Finishing the Job We Started

1 Too Wimpy or Too Bitchy? Finding an Effective Way to Lead

2 From Getting Coffee to Running the Place3 Dealing with the Lechers Among Us

4 The Dollars and Sense of Diversity

5 A Short History of the First Female Editor of the New York Times

6 Changing the News: How Women Shape Culture and Coverage

7 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Balancing Work and Family

8 The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Media

9 The Next Generation: What Has Changed and What Has Not

List of Interviews

Notes

Index