This is a biography-based story.of a woman who forged a successful journalism career in the misogynistic nineteenth century. This is also the story of an arch imperialist who supported a plot to claim an African country for the British Empire, as well as the tale of a humanitarian who organised care for 250,000 Belgian refugees in the dark days of WW1. She was the first woman to achieve a position of high journalistic authority and became the Colonial Editor for The Times in the early 1890s. Written by Shaw's great niece, The Journalist chronicles Shaw's life, exploring the contradictions and achievements of the first woman to shatter journalism's notoriously thick glass ceiling and who became one of the most influential journalists of her day.