The Fleet Street girls : the women who broke down the doors of the gentleman's club
Welch, Julie2022
Books, Manuscripts
The inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the ranks in Fleet Street for the first time. When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it passable. She'd done it. She was the first ever female football reporter. In 'The Fleet Street Girls', Julie looks back at the steps that led to that moment, from the National Union of Journalists nearly calling a strike when she dared to write an article as a mere secretary (despite allowing men who weren't journalists to write for the same pages), and many other battles in between.
Main title:
Author:
Welch, Julie, author
Imprint:
London : Trapeze, 2022.
Collation:
274 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9781409187837 (pbk)
Dewey class:
070.4082070.408
LC class:
PN4784.W7
Local class:
070.408
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2887598