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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Female sports reporters rail against sexism at Scottish newspapers

The sports presenter Gabby Logan with a microphone.
The sports presenter Gabby Logan has backed the campaign launched by Women in Journalism Scotland. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Female journalists have accused Scotland’s newspapers of sexist and discriminatory attitudes towards sports reporters after controversy arose over misogynist jokes at an awards dinner.

Women in Journalism Scotland (WiJS) has launched a campaign calling for far greater diversity among sports reporters after it discovered only three of Scotland’s 95 full-time newspaper sports writers were women.

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