Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Faculty of Humanities
English philology
III Course
Student: Mari Dgebuadze
Lecturer: Eter Baliashvili

WOMEN
IN
MEDIA
According to different kind of studies,
although the number of women working
in the media has been increasing
globally, the top positions are still very
male dominated.
 Now women have rightful place in media.
They are treated respectfully, have more rights and power compared to their condition in
the past
Elizabeth Timothy is
recognized as America's
first female newspaper
editor and publisher and
one of the world's first
female journalists. She
performed these roles with
distinction, given her
additional responsibilities
as mother, homemaker,
and widow
 Benjamin Franklin's gazette
Elizabeth Timothy's gazette
Ann Franklin
•She was an American colonial
newspaper printer and
publisher. She inherited the
business from her husband,
James Franklin, brother of
Benjamin Franklin
Jane Grey
Swisshelm
•She was a American journalist
and abolitionist who countered
vocal and sometimes physical
opposition to her publications
supporting women’s rights and
decrying slavery.
•During the Civil War
she volunteered as a nurse and
then retired to Swissvale,
Pensylvania.
Pauline
Frederick
•She became the first full-time
news correspondent and first
woman to moderate presidential
debate between Jimmy Carter
and Gerald Ford.
•She became a full-time news
correspondent when ABC
finally gave her a full-time
contract after years of
employing her as a freelancer.
•Dorothy Fuldheim was already in her
50s, when she retired from teaching but
began to work at television and lasted there
long enough to become a living legend.
•Dorothy Fuldheim won many awards for
her journalism and was named one of
“America’s Most Admired Women” by a
Gallup Poll.
•She wrote memoirs “ I Laughed, I Cried, I
Loved: A News Analyst’s Love Affair with
the World” in 1966, “A Thousand friends”
in 1974, “Three and a Half husband” in
1976, and “The House I Live In” in 1981.
•The first woman who owned and produced her own TV talk show was Oprah
Winfrey. Now her name is very well-known for everyone and she is considered as
one of the influential woman in the world.
 Tamar Museridze
•TV personality Tamar Museridze - also known as Tamuna -
had been a well-known face on Georgia's public broadcasting
network from the age of 18 but her life changed drastically
when, aged 31, she discovered she was adopted.
•She gave up everything to search for her biological parents
and during her research found evidence that large-scale black-
market adoption had been going on in Georgia since the
1970s.
•She set up the Facebook group "I'm searching" sparking a
national conversation around illegal adoption, mostly of babies
taken from maternity hospitals.
 Nunu Japaridze

•she worked for CNN for 14

years and now she is working
at Fox News as a director of
show “Story development”.
 Resources:
• https://www.foxnews.com/person/j/nunu-japaridze
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-02d9060e-15dc-426c-bfe0-86a6437e5234
• https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/11/ann-smith-franklin.html#google_vignette
• https://charlestonwomen.com/featured/elizabeth-timothy-first-female-publisher-and-charle
ston-resident-a-story-of-perseverance/
• https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Swisshelm__Jane_G
rey
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pauline-Frederick
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oprah-Winfrey
• https://case.edu/ech/articles/f/fuldheim-dorothy