Ian Burrell: The women of Fleet Street are on the march to claim their place at journalism’s top table. It’s about time, too

Ian Burrell: The women of Fleet Street are on the march to claim their place at journalism's top table. It's about time, too.

Few could argue that the press has kept pace with other media sectors in offering equal opportunities. You look at Cilla Snowball, running Britain's biggest advertising agency (AMV/BBDO), Lisa Thomas, chief executive of M&C Saatchi Group, Nicola Mendelsohn, in charge of Facebook in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Roisin Donnelly, marketing head at Procter & Gamble, and there aren't too many similar figures in Fleet Street.

It's the British Journalism Awards tonight. Over the years, newspaper industry nights have been noticeably more macho affairs – marked by cat-calling, flying bread rolls and the odd fist fight – compared with equivalent events in television.

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