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Wempower is a London based media platform focused on stories of ordinary women that are inspiring, powerful, inclusive and positive. We want to rewrite the narrative, with stories that sounds and looks like yours. Stories of women that are fighting and working to build a new generation of empowered women. These stories are the testimony that the world is filled with ambitious and remarkable women, ready to lift each other up, willing to fight and speak up for the one that can’t.
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Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
In this interview we will talk about language, and the barriers that non-native English speakers journalists might face when entering the journalism industry in the UK, or any other English-speaking country.
Barbara Serra is an award-winning journalist, TV presenter, documentary-maker and author. From 2006 to 2022 she presented Al Jazeera English’s flagship NewsHour programme from the channel’s European headquarters in London. She was previously a reporter and presenter at Sky News, BBC and Channel 5, where she became the first non-native English speaker to present a prime-time news programme on British television.
In 2020 she produced and presented the documentary Fascism in the Family for Al Jazeera, looking at the story of her grandfather, fascist mayor of the town of Carbonia, and the influence that Fascism continues to exert in Italy.
In 2019 she was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Italian Republic for her journalism. She is currently writing a book and has a Substack Newsletter called News with a Foreign Accent.
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