Pswhatsmore's Blog

One of the other outlets which I contribute to is Women’s Views on News. Here is the press release which we put out recently. Add the site to your favourites or sign up for an email update.

Fed up with the bias towards men in the news? So are we. Which is why we (a group of freelance women journalists) have just set up a not-for-profit online news service providing stories about women, by women – www.womensviewsonnews.org. We want to change the way the world sees women in the news.

The site will source up to date news on all the major national and international stories of the day in much the same way as any newspaper or online news service, but from the perspective of women. It will also include feature articles and opinion pieces, but the focus will always be news.

So why women? Well, there are dozens of women’s magazines covering a broad range of interests, but none of them provide news and current affairs from a woman’s perspective in any meaningful way. There are, therefore, thousands of stories that should be told, but just aren’t.

Indeed, according to a recent survey, four out of every five people featured in news stories worldwide were men, and just ten percent of all news stories focused specifically on women.

There are a number of reasons for that, but one of them is the dominance of men on news desks. As news editors, they are the ones with the power to decide which stories are newsworthy and, crucially, which are not.

Whatever the reason, the end result is that the views of women are ignored. That sends out a message to women – that their opinions are just not as important as those of men. Or that they do not have the same validity. This site will redress that imbalance.

We are now looking for women who are interested in writing for the blog (although we can’t afford to pay – sorry), so if you have any news stories for publication, just go to www.womensviewsonnews.org to get in touch.

We are also looking for people to support our blog by reading it as often as possible and by telling as many other potential readers and writers about it as well.