Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace of the Cronkite School will share what they learned interviewing almost 100 women news leaders for their new book, “There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What it Takes to Lead.” The authors will tell the stories of women who have made their way to top positions as editors and news executives and discuss the progress women have made over the past 40 years as well as the challenges they still face.

Speakers: Kristin Gilger, senior associate dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Julia Wallace, Frank Russell chair, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications

Moderator: Vanessa Ruiz, Director, Cronkite News Borderlands, professor of practice