The Bulletin
Men's Weekly


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Women’s sport is soaring, and old-school male sports journalists need to lift their game

  • Written by Brigid McCarthy, Lecturer in Journalism, La Trobe University

Sports media misogyny was alive and well this month.

In just the few short weeks it took for star United States basketball players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese to shoot their way from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Sweet 16 to the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft, two different sport reporters found...

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