Article April 3, 1971 Issue

An Interview: with a Journalist

with contributions from Elizabeth Pond

Is being a woman a disadvantage in journalism?

No, I don't think so, not really. Of course, men reporters tend not to take you seriously until you've proved yourself, which I think requires a bit more for a woman than a man.

You have to be better than a man, sort of like a black has often had to be better than a white to get the job?

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About the author

Elizabeth Pond is currently a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. She covered Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion of 1968, which won her a Dumont Award for International Journalism. For a year and a half she reported on Vietnam. She was one of three journalists captured by insurgents in Cambodia in 1970 and held for five and a half weeks before release.

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