Siren #144: Fast Five with Tara Murray, women in sport in India + we’ve been in the archives again!
A Women in Sport Collective
The weather is getting warmer as we enter the second month of spring and you know what that means… it's cricket season, friends!
The ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024 is coming up this week and will be followed by an exciting summer of cricket for our Aussie women as well as the WBBL keeping us all entertained.
With a historic Ashes Test against England also at the MCG in January marking the 90th anniversary of the first Women’s Ashes (yes, women have been playing cricket for that long - just ask our resident women’s sports history buff Kirby Fenwick!) and some exciting ODIs, we can’t wait to see the action unfold.
The Indian Women’s Team will also be paying a visit down under and we know that series will be fire.
Siren co-founder Dr Kasey Symons was recently in India representing Deakin University in her academic role working with the ABC Women in News and Sport (WINS) team who ran an amazing program for women in sports media from all over India.
There are some awesome women media stars and content creators in India covering women’s sports and Kasey got to know many of them in the past week who are also passionate cricket followers. We’ve included a few of their stories and profiles this month so you can find the experts as India heads into the World Cup as serious contenders and prepares to come to Aussie shores in December.
We love connecting to women in sport media all around the world, this is what makes our women in sport space so great! Community and connection are the key to change!
Meet some amazing women in sport in India!
ABC Women in News and Sport (WINS) is a fantastic initiative run by the ABC as a training and mentoring program that provides women journalists in the Pacific and Asia with the tools to carve out a career in the male-dominated world of sports media.
The team were in Delhi last week working with some amazing women from all over India who are working or aspiring to work in the sports media industry. Get to know some of them!
Fast Five with Tara Murray
In Fast Five we catch up with women and non-binary people in sports media and ask them about their work, their career highlights and their advice for emerging sports media content creators.
Tara Murray is a sports journalist and commentator. She works full time as the sports journalist and editor for Star Weekly Newspapers covering a wide range of sports. You can find her calling for the Essendon District Football League, WARF Radio and the Victorian Netball League among other places. Tara has some fantastic tips for emerging creators!
The sports newsletters we love that we know you’ll love - V2.0!
Women’s sport goodness delivered right to your inbox? Sign us up!
We love a sports newsletter around these parts and we figure if you’re here, you might be the same. So we rounded up a few of our faves earlier this year and now we have some super fun updates for you.
Got a tip for a sporty newsletter we should add to our list? Let us know!
Catch up on latest from our partnership with ABC Sport
Sarah Burt follows up on the lives of the incredible women footballers who fled the Taliban and their stories as they continue to live and play in Melbourne.
Jo White shares the story of the Pacifika Ballerz basketball team in Sydney’s south-west and the mums who built the team for their daughters.
AFLW sports research opportunity
Click here to complete the survey and feel free to send to anyone you think would be interested!
If you have any queries about the study, please don’t hesitate to contact Chief Investigator Dr Kelsey Richards, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University via email: krichards@csu.edu.au.
From the (podcast) archives
We’ll be sharing some good stuff via the Siren podcast in the coming weeks so we thought what better time to hit up the archives and share some of our fave chats.
This episode features co-founders Alison Smirnoff, Kasey Symons and Gemma Bastiani discussing how they come up with feature piece ideas, and the challenge of synthesising multiple interviews into a single piece of writing. A good listen for the emerging writers out there!
In this episode, co-founder Kirby Fenwick has a chat with friend of Siren Marissa Lordanic about her work in the women’s sport space.
And in this episode, Siren co-founder Dr Kasey Symons speaks with Dr Rebecca Olive about her relationship with sport and her academic journey.
Co-founders Kasey Symons and Gemma Bastiani catch up with friend of Siren and former Age sports journo soon to be ABC Sport journo, Marnie Vinall.
And finally, we talk about sports pop culture in this episode with co-founders Kirby Fenwick and Kasey Symons catching up with friend of Siren Rana Hussain for the sport/pop culture crossover you never knew you needed.
Siren is now on Patreon!
When you become a Patreon you support us to:
commission and pay writers and content creators
run our Emerging Sports Writer Programs
create opportunities for women and non-binary folk in sports media.
The support of the Siren community has helped support those commissions and opportunities and we can’t thank you enough.
You can become a Patron of Siren today and help us continue to challenge the status quo of sports media.
