Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Media and Journalism offers an account of women’s leadership in journalism and media by looking at what has motivated and enabled women to navigate the intersecting impacts of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age to become leaders in media. The volume looks at executive leadership as well as moral leadership, and encompasses print, broadcast, PR, film, and digital media, as well as commercial, large-scale non-commercial, and small-scale alternative media. Women leaders profiled in this volume include Mary Ann Shadd Cary, publisher of The Provincial Freeman in Canada; Ida B. Wells, famous for her Memphis Free Speech; Mary Margaret McBride, who pioneered the unscripted, unrehearsed radio show; publisher Katharine Graham, who steered the Washington Post through a contentious strike; Joan Ganz Cooney, who led the early educational television show Sesame Street; public relations executive Ann Barkelew; syndicated talk show host Oprah Winfrey; Frances Stevens, founder of a much beloved lesbian magazine; Lisa Williams, the first Black woman to head the Associated Press Sports Editors; S. Mitra Kalita, a senior executive at both major commercial as well as smaller digital organizations; and Iman Zawahry, a Muslim hijabi filmmaker.
 

Linda Steiner is a professor in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She is an author and editor of several books, most recently Front Pages: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage (co-edited with B. Kroeger, University of Illinois Press, 2020) and Journalism, Gender, and Power (co-edited with S. Allan, Routledge, 2019).

Foreword to the Series
New Foreword to the Series
A Brief History of Making It as a Media Leader by Linda Steiner
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Embodying Intersectionality Through 1850s Newspaper Publishing by Tracy Everbach
Ida B. Wells: Journalist Warrior for Justice by Michelle Duster
Mary Margaret McBride: A Journalist Finds Time, Space, and her Pace by Sadie Couture
Katharine Meyer Graham: A Complicated Person Confronting Complicated Problems by Linda Steiner
Joan Ganz Cooney: Television Pioneer by Amy Jordan
Ann Barkelew: Leadership Lessons in Public Relations by Elizabeth L. Toth
Oprah Winfrey: A Rise from Poverty to Talk-show Host and More by Constance Mitchell Ford
Frances “Franco” Stevens: Raising Lesbian Visibility through Magazine (Re)Making by Stine Eckert
Lisa Bell Wilson: A Calm, Confident Leader through Triumph and Tragedy by Shannon Scovel and Kevin Blackistone 
S. Mitra Kalita: Changing Newsrooms, One Story at a Time by Paromita Pain
Iman Zawahry: A Muslim Hijabi Filmmaker Using Humor to Shatter Stereotypes by Nahed Eltantawy and Chloe Terani
Acknowledgments 
Notes on Contributors
Index