Performer (Interviewee)
Megan Clement
Interviewer
Dr. You Li
Geographic Location
Australia
Biography
Megan Clement from Montreuil, France, is a journalist, critic, and editor whose work focuses on gender equality, social policy, migration, human rights, arts, and culture. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al Jazeera, The New Humanitarian, and News Deeply, among other publications.
Clement, an Australian journalist living in Paris, France, traveled across three continents and underwent four quarantines for work and family reasons during the pandemic. She published her quarantine experiences in the first-person voice and raised public attention to the mismanagement of quarantine protocols at hotels and public housing. She urged public attention to structural inequality in race and gender and called for more diversity of representation in story topics, newsroom staffing, and leadership.
Interview Date
5-23-2023
Subject
Australia, France, first-person voice journalism, migration, gendered pandemic, personal loss, freelance journalist, science journalism, health journalism, misinformation/disinformation, race, structural inequality, COVID-19, pandemic, women in journalism, Eastern Michigan University Archives
Publisher
Eastern Michigan University Archives
Digital Object File Type
mp3
Run Time
1:00:30
Rights
Copyright to the audio resource and its transcript, headshot, and stories is held by the content creator, author, artist, or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any other format without written permission of the copyright owner, Eastern Michigan University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).
Recommended Citation
Li, You, "Megan Clement, Oral History Interview, 2023" (2023). Collective Memory of Women Journalists in COVID-19. 26.
https://commons.emich.edu/cmwj/26
Author Page
https://www.meganclement.com/