In my last listicle that I put together – I shared some of my favourite pieces of sports journalism written by women, on women in sport. In that list I wrote, “I love sports journalism. I love great writing on sport” and that love of sports writing extends beyond journalism. In this small list, I’ve …
In our second newsletter, we started to publish what would become a regular feature for us: statistics on the coverage of women’s sports by mainstream media. In Siren #02 we revealed that for Sunday, January 26 only 11.86% of sports coverage was dedicated to women’s sport. If we removed stories about Ash Barty, who of …
I’ve always wanted to speak to Michelle Cooling, who is the Social Media Manager of the Sydney Swans. It’s a role that is now considered the ‘front line’ of a sporting organisation, most vulnerable to the online response to results each week. Not only this, but the pathway to actually land a job like this …
*not hosted by Siren co-founders We love listening to podcasts. We love listening to podcasts about sport. We love listening to podcasts about sport by women. Here are five of our favourites. The Forward Line This is a women in sport podcast that comes from a slightly different perspective. The Forward Line is hosted by …
The AFLW season may be unceremoniously over, but that doesn’t negate some of the outstanding individual and team efforts. Siren co-founders Alison Smirnoff, Kirby Fenwick, Kasey Symons and Gemma Bastiani took a look back at the season and shared their vote for the 2020 best and fairest, best first year player, most improved player, who …