Rebecca Myers is a journalist for The Times and Sunday Times and the lead reporter for the prestigious Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year awards. She has covered major sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games, the World Athletics Championships, and the FIFA Women's World Cup, and her work focuses on women's sport. She was shortlisted for the Society of Editors’ Young Journalist of the Year award 2018. In this podcast, I asked Rebecca about the female athletes she has reported on and interviewed during the COVID-19 lockdown – how they have been able to keep up with their training, and what restrictions, including financial restrictions, they have encountered. Rebecca talks about the positive outcomes – the silver lining – of being confined to the house for these athletes and how she hopes that the balance in the portrayal and coverage of sports women in the media, although currently not favourable for women, might be more promising in the future. I am pleased to discover that you don’t need to be ‘sporty’ or know the sports ‘lingo’ to be a successful female sports journalist!

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