Carolyn Byerly
Bio:
Carolyn M. Byerly, Ph.D., is professor emerita of Howard University and the former chair of Howard’s Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies. She is a feminist media scholar whose books include The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism (Palgrave, 2013) and Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell, 2006). She was the principal investigator of the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media for International Women’s Media Foundation (2011).
A new Women’s Media Center report finding that white men occupy more than two-thirds of guest spots on major Sunday news shows confirms decades of research. Journalism scholar Carolyn Byerly explores the reasons behind the exclusion of women’s voices in news media.
In Rural Tamil Nadu, Child Marriage Was Already Rampant. Then Came the Pandemic.
