Navigating the Vaccine Maze

Navigating the Vaccine Maze

The Daily Iowan WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2021 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY SINCE 1868 DAILYIOWAN.COM 50¢ INSIDE 4A THE DAILY IOWAN | DAILYIOWAN.COM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2021 Vaccine experts say don’t wait on a brand this June, so when you go or have seen Sage Steele on through something like that ESPN … It’s no longer unusual you feel the pressure to do to have women. We are a part Amplifysomething in the health care of this group, and we have 4Afield. shown that we belong.” Sports media Although more women are This week, the FDA issued emergency-use authorization for a single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. making their way into the sports media field, the fear of being harassed on social not just for men media doesn’t stop. Accord- ing to a 2014 report by the In- tion, there are two reporters as the percentage of women ternational Women’s Media Women in sports media share stories that identify as women out sports reporters has stayed the Foundation, nearly one-third about their experiences in a traditionally of 10 sports reporters in the same since 2012. of female journalists consider print sports section. Women Leah Vann was named the leaving the profession because male-dominated field. are more represented in DITV new Cedar Rapids Gazette Io- of online attacks and threats. sports, as over half of DITV wa football beat reporter in Contributed “I have never once felt BY CHLOE PETERSON leaders in the newsroom.” sports staffers — five out of January, making her the first Leah Vann threatened by any athlete that chloe-peterson@uiowa.edu The number of women nine — are women. woman in more than 20 years I’ve had to work with,” Kayser sports media professionals Anna Kayser worked for to be on the sports desk of the “But my heart and soul has said. “But it never really leaves Hawkeye sports were hot in continues to be far below that the DI starting in fall 2017 as Gazette and the only woman always been in sports,” she the back of your mind that if the 1990s. Dan Gable and the of men, and many women a sports reporter. Eventually, on the Hawkeye football beat said. an athlete or a coach or some- BY LILLIAN POULSEN Iowa wrestling team won sev- are subject to spurs of doubt in the state. Vann graduated So, she started working at body has your phone number, issued an emergency use Johnson and Johnson was College of Medicine Pat Wi- Moderna vaccines, some en NCAA titles, and C. Vivian and harassment by their male from the Medill School of Jour- The Daily Texan her junior year that could happen.” Stringer coached the 1992-93 counterparts. But those wom- nalism at Northwestern with a of college and found a job in While Vann was a prep Iowa women’s basketball team en who have been successful in master’s degree in journalism sports writing with the Globe sports reporter in Colorado, to the most dominant finish in the industry say the challenges in June 2020. Gazette in Mason City, Iowa, she was harassed and stalked program history — the Final were worth it and serve as role “I knew the next step in my after she graduated. She then by a parent of a high school Four of the NCAA Tourna- models for those coming be- career was to be a college foot- moved on to be the sports ed- athlete she was covering. lillian-poulsen@uiowa.edu authorization for the third approved after a thorough nokur, who is UI Hospital have speculated that the hind them. ball beat writer,” Vann said. itor of the Steamboat Pilot & To- “I think he found me attrac- “I’ve been very lucky to work “And I don’t know if I’m going day in Colorado, before attend- tive,” Vann said. “Which is dis- with editors that made diversi- to stay in college football … but ing Northwestern and getting turbing, since his son is closer ty in the newsroom a priority,” with two years of professional the job she has today with the in age to me than I am to him. Scott said. “Working at the experience and a graduate de- Gazette. So, he did call my office, and Dallas Morning News, and then gree, I knew it was what I was Vann’s hiring was a long tell me that I had a ‘rockin’ USA Today, I’ve always felt like qualified to do.” time coming. In Scott’s almost body’ and that he would like to vaccine for the prevention of analysis of the data, includ- and Clinics’ lead vaccine re- older vaccines could only Anna Kayser our leadership has been very Vann received her under- three decades of take me fishing.” supportive of having diverse she became the sports editor graduate degree in biology at experience as a woman of As more and more wom- voices and editors who tell all and edited the DI’s weekly Fri- the University of Texas at Aus- color in sports media, she’s en slowly trickle into the the stories, so they reflect our day football special edition for tin — her home state — but noticed how the industry has sports-media industry, it’ll audience and the people we the fall 2019 semester before realized halfway through her shifted. become easier for women to are writing about.” graduation. college career that she wanted “Now, I think it’s not at all be widely accepted by athletes, But not all women working “You kind of have to find to be a sports writer instead of unusual to see women in the fans, and other media organi- Public health experts in COVID-19. Iowa will receive ing an analysis of 43,783 par- searcher, said UIHC plans to require one dose to be effec- in sports media have been as your own way,” Kayser said. a doctor. After battling cancer press box or in the locker room zations as professional jour- lucky as Scott. UI graduate “Being with the sports section, as a child, she felt pulled to the interviewing players after nalists. Contributed Kimberly Bates grew up loving you have to deal with things medical world, although it was games,” Scott said. “Just be- But for now, Kayser stresses Roxanna Scott sports, and knew she wanted that the guys don’t have to deal not truly something cause there are more women leaning on coworkers that sup- to work in sports, specifically with a lot of the time.” she wanted to do. who have seen Leslie Visser on port women unequivocally. ment. with Major League Baseball. Kayser noted a specific in- “I was going the sideline of an NFL “I met some of my best Johnson County recommend 25,600 doses of the Johnson ticipants in a placebo-con- continue distributing vac- tive. As a University of Iowa stu- The summer before her fi- stance in her first year cover- to go to medical game, friends at the DI, when I start- dent and Daily Iowan sports nal year at Iowa, Bates took ing Iowa wrestling — star Iowa school,” Vann said. ed with the sports section,” reporter, Roxanna Scott was an internship with a collegiate wrestler Spencer Lee was side- “I went through a Kayser said. “I found that right in the middle of it. summer baseball team as its lined with kidney stones, and lot of medical those guys always had my Scott, now the sports man- on-field host. She was one of nobody knew if he was going stuff as a kid, back, on everything that aging editor for USA Today, two female interns in a room to be able to wrestle in the up- I’m a cancer happened.” followed Stringer and the Iowa full of male interns. The first coming meet. After Lee made survivor of people get one of the three and Johnson vaccine. It’ll be trolled study in South Africa. cines as they become avail- While this may turn out to women’s basketball team to At- day she was with the team, the it into the probable lineup for almost 10 years lanta, where the Final Four was general manager pulled her the meet, she wrote a brief at held. For Scott, it was her first and the other female intern the direction of her editors, experience with national news. aside to talk about something but was scrutinized by a male “At that time, when I start- he found important to only journalist at a wrestling press ed off that season, I did not them. conference. think that was where we’d end “I was accused of only get- “He basically just called me FDA-approved COVID-19 allocated to 17 Iowa counties With guidance from the able to eligible populations. ‘ be the case, Winokur said, up,” Scott said. “I just remem- ber seeing the coverage on a national level of a team that I I was accused of only getting the had been following all season — it was just surreal to me … internship because I wanted to sleep with the I think it just gave me an idea baseball players. vaccine as soon as it’s avail- that have larger 1B priority Centers for Disease Con- Because of Johnson and there’s not enough data to of how to cover a large event, and what the national media was like.” — UI graduate Kimberly Bates And in the 90s, Scott was lucky enough to have women ting the internship because I out for writing to look up to in the DI sports wanted to sleep with the base- that brief,” Kay- section.

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