Women on Air is a voluntary networking group that runs seminars and informal training workshops to help give women the skills and confidence to go on radio and television. It was started in summer 2010 by journalist Margaret E. Ward. All women involved – from the presenters to committee members – volunteer their time to [...]
Press Releases RTÉ Hosts Bring on the Women On Wednesday 22nd May, RTÉ held Ireland’s first-ever industry-hosted training and networking day for female area experts willing to become more active in broadcast representation. ‘Bring on the Women’, a free one-day training programme, was organised by RTÉ and conducted on-site in conjunction with Women on Air. [...]
Fewer than 1 in 4 ‘on-air’ voices are women. A new survey conducted by the National Women’s Council of Ireland shows that less than one quarter of voices in radio news and current affairs broadcasting are women. The survey was conducted in March as part of research for the NWCI submission to the Broadcasting Authority [...]
“Women on air is the only reason I got as far as RTE’s Frontline… It’s all that women on air training” – Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Editor of the Cork Indo “Just been asked on Vincent Browne tonight to talk about Understanding Limerick. Can’t wait. Thanks to the Women on air list” – Dil Wickremasinghe, Social activist [...]
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