Dr. Barbara Barnett
Writer, author, journalist, professor
August 27, 2018
Women risk their lives every day to report the news. This blog tells their stories.
Several years ago, my university, the University of Kansas, hosted a workshop called "Common Ground: The Media, the Military, and Post-traumatic Stress." The workshop...
August 27, 2018
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Editor’s note: This article is the ninth in a 12-part series of stories based on interviews with 35 women journalists who cover violence around the globe. Because women were promised anonymity, pseudonyms were used...
August 27, 2018
Editor’s note: This article is tenth in a 12-part series of stories about women journalists who cover violence around the globe. Because women were promised anonymity, pseudonyms are used here.
For female journalists who cover violence, exposure to gr...
August 27, 2018
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Editor’s note: This story is the eighth article in a 12-part series based on interviews with 35 women journalists who cover violence around the globe. Because women were promised anonymity, pseudonyms are used here.
Journalis...
August 27, 2018
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Editor’s note: This seventh article in a 12-part series of stories based on interviews with 35 women journalists covering violence around the world. Because women were promised anonymity, only pseudonyms are used he...
August 27, 2018
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Editor’s note: This article is the fifth in a 12-part series of articles about female journalists who cover violence. It is based on interviews with 35 women working around the globe. Because women were promised anonym...
August 27, 2018
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Editor’s note: This article is the fourth in a 12-part series of stories, based on interviews with 35 women journalists who cover violence around the globe. Because the women were promised anonymity, pseudo...
August 27, 2018
Photo from Flickr
Editor’s note: This article is the third in a 12-part series about female journalists who cover violence. It is based on interviews with 35 female journalists working around the globe. The women requested anonymity, so pseudonyms ar...
August 27, 2018
Photo from United Nations
Editor’s note: This is the second article in a 12-part series about female journalists who cover violence. It is based on interviews with 35 female journalists working around the globe. Women asked that their real names not b...
August 27, 2018
Photo by Lars Schmidt / International Media Support
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a 12-part of a series about female journalists who cover violence. It is based on interviews with 35 women working around the globe. Women were promised a...
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I've been writing my entire professional life.
I began my career as a journalist at The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer in my home state of North Carolina. I reported on health care and the legislature, and I wrote editorials.
I later worked as a health communicator for the N.C. Hospital Association, where I developed public relations plans and strategies.
Later I worked with Family Health International (FHI), a nonprofit organization that conducted social science and biomedical research on women's health, AIDS, and family planning. This job gave me a chance to travel around the world, to work with women and men in developing countries, and write about how important health care is for an individual's quality of life and the community's welfare.
I have worked in Africa (Zimbabwe, Kenya), Asia (Philippines, Thailand), the Caribbean (Jamaica, Costa Rica), and the Middle East (Egypt).
I now teach journalism at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, in the United States. I teach reporting, diversity in the media, among other courses.
My research has focused on gender, media, and violence. I have studied media coverage of women as perpetrators of violence, as victims and survivors of violence, and as witnesses to violence. My work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Women and Language, and Communication, Culture and Critique. I'm the author of Motherhood in the Media: Infanticide, Journalism, and the Digital Age, which has been recently published in paperback by Routledge.
I have experience in qualitative research, public relations strategic planning, writing and editing.
A few personal details: I grew up at the beach, I am a military kid, I love dogs.
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Women makes up half the world's population, but our voices aren't always heard or appreciated. This blog offers women a chance to speak, to learn, to share.
