PHOTO: The regional women supported to attend the Women in Media Conference in Sydney including Lee O’Connor, Lucie Peart and Kait Britton.
Being a regional woman working in media (or in any sector!) can be isolating, so when scholarships were offered by Women NSW to attend the national Women in Media conference in Sydney early this month, three Western Plains newspaper editors jumped at the chance.
Taking a break from the newsrooms at the Coonamble Times, newspapers at Gilgandra, Narromine, Warren and Nyngan, and from the Coonabarabran Times and Wattle magazine were Lee O’Conner, Lucie Peart and Kait Britton.
They were part of a 13-woman cohort from across regional, rural and remote NSW who attended the conference and heard from renowned speakers including Liz Hayes, who was interviewed by actor, Rachel Griffiths, and Ita Buttrose…