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    Women in Canadian newsrooms remain ‘Outsiders Still’

    By ILINA GHOSH Staff Reporter The large number of young women entering journalism today are well positioned to challenge sexism in the newsroom, veteran journalist and author Vivian Smith told about 100 aspiring reporters earlier this month. “Just your sheer numbers mean that you’re going to have more influence in newsrooms,” said Smith, who spoke at the Ryerson University School of Journalism about her recent book, Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love – and Leave – Their Newspaper Careers.   “When I was doing this, [I was] one woman [at a table with] seven or eight men and it was…