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In this video journalist Megan Kamerick presents The Whole Picture at TEDx ABQ in September 2011. Kamerick is a former president of Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) and currently a senior reporter at New Mexico Business Weekly. Her ten minute presentation covers issues of gender bias in reporting, inequality and representation in the journalism field and coverage of women and women’s issues. These topics also include ideas about journalists’ own internal biases and blind spots when it comes to issues of gender. Kamerick specifically cites a March 2011 New York Times story about a gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Texas and the difference in coverage between the Times’ own male and female reporters. She also specifically cites the lack of women on the front of magazine covers such as the technology centered Wired. She touches briefly on the case of  Lara Logan who was sexually assaulted while reporting from Tahrir Square in February of 2011 and the media’s reaction to women reporting from conflict areas. Kamerick offers a number of statistics about women in the newsroom and the number of leadership roles held by women in the journalism profession.