New time for Reno media: Women in charge
by Rhina Guidos, Outpost staff
Deidre
Pike
OCCUPATION: Assistant technology editor, Reno
Gazette-Journal
RENO RESIDENT SINCE: 1992
From copyboys to publishers, journalism used to be a career for men. Reno's newspapers were no exception.
But today, women occupy top ranks at the local paper: Tonia Cunning was recently named managing editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal and Sue Clark-Johnson is its publisher.
Along the same line, Deidre Pike became assistant technology editor at the paper in less than a year out of the local journalism school. She is one of the many women making their headway at the Reno Gazette-Journal.
The biggest challenges Pike has faced have nothing with being a woman but more with adapting to all the roles an editor performs.
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Nevada journalism has many male legends. But
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"I can never decide whether I'm actually an editor or a reporter," she said. "I both write stories and lay out pages."
What has she found out about the newsroom?
"Sometimes people think the local paper is a huge conspiracy," she said. "They picture a governing body that hands down decisions from glass offices, with reporters and editors-on-strings as a unified media machine."
"Sure, that can happen. But in reality some stories get covered simply because an individual reporter was engaged by a topic."
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Posted
Dec. 16, 1999
Copyright 1999, Nevada Outpost
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