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Carmen Bruegmann

Senior Lecturer

Senior lecturer Carmen Bruegmann is a former national newspaper journalist and magazine editor who teaches news reporting, feature writing and magazine production on both the BA and MSc Journalism courses.

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About

Senior lecturer Carmen Bruegmann is a former national newspaper journalist and magazine editor who teaches news reporting, feature writing and magazine production on both the BA and MSc Journalism courses.

Senior lecturer Carmen Bruegmann is a former national newspaper journalist and magazine editor who teaches news reporting, feature writing and magazine production on both the BA and MSc Journalism courses.

Carmen has worked on major national newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail (staff writer and commissioning editor), Cosmopolitan (deputy editor) and ELLE (senior contributing editor) and was deputy editor/acting editor of SHE. She was launch editor of international fashion magazine SHOO and has freelanced for many publications including Grazia and the Mail on Sunday. She started her career as a news reporter on the Hull Daily Mail before becoming an award-winning women's editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds.

Carmen is now a senior lecturer on both the BA and MSc Journalism courses at Leeds Beckett University.

Research interests

Carmen has recently completed a paper, 'The Girls at the Desk': Timeless Blokishness in the Newsroom Culture in the British Press, with Dr Martina Topic, which was published in Journalism Studies.

Publications (3)

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Journal article
‘The Girls at the Desk’: Timeless Blokishness in the Newsroom Culture in the British Press?
Featured 09 December 2020 Journalism Studies22(1):77-95 Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
AuthorsTopic M, Bruegmann C

This paper explores the lived experiences of women working in journalism in the UK. To do this, 20 interviews were conducted with women who worked in newspapers and magazines from the 1970s to the present day. The research was conceptualised using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and works previously conducted in journalism studies on blokish culture in newsrooms. The purpose of the paper was to further explore blokish culture in newsrooms by looking into expectations of women and the work culture. Thematic analysis was used in analysing findings. The results show that not much has changed in newsroom culture and interviewees who worked in journalism across decades report the same issue with blokish culture and cultural masculinity in work expectations. Besides, results show that women face both direct and indirect sexism and deeply entrenched blokish culture that impedes opportunities for women. Results indicate that the situation in women’s magazines, as predominantly female-led environments, is more relaxed and women who work in magazines do not report blokish culture. Finally, abductive analysis of results showed a link between early socialisation and blokishness expressed in newsrooms among women who internalised masculine habitus.

Report
Women Journalists in the UK Press
Featured 05 January 2020 Leeds Business School Women Journalists in the UK Press
AuthorsTopic M, Bruegmann C
Conference Contribution

Slow fashion and slow journalism in twenty years of British Vogue’s editor’s letters.

Featured 18 January 2023 Leeds Business School’ Staff Conference Leeds

Current teaching

Courses:

  • BA Journalism
  • MSc Journalism
  • BA PR with Journalism
  • MA Public Relations

Modules:

  • Feature Writing
  • Reporting
  • Magazine Production
  • Magazine Newsdays

Teaching Activities (1)

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Course developed

BA (Hons) Journalism

25 September 2017

Leeds Beckett University

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