GMMP Award Nomination

In 2004 the GMMP was selected by nominations committee of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) as their nomination for the ICA award of Most Important Applied/ Public Policy Research Programme.

Global Media Monitoring Project Award Nomination

Editorial, Media and Gender Monitor. Issue No: 14, February 2004

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) will be 10 years old in 2005 and while numerous gender and communication activists, policy makers and academics have over the years recognized the importance of GMMP as a tool for change, to date there has been no formal recognition of the project. All that changed at the end of last year when the nominations committee of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) selected GMMP as their nomination for the ICA award of Most Important Applied/ Public Policy Research Programme. Karen Ross (University of Coventry) in the UK, was then responsible for putting the nomination package together on behalf of FSD.

Why gender still matters, or how I learned to embrace feminism and accept my place in the awkward squad

By Dr Karen Ross. Media and Gender Monitor. Issue No: 14, February 2004

Ten years ago, in 1994, I embarked on what was to become a significant research interest for me when I decided to monitor the media’s portrayal of the contest for the leadership of the British Labour Party, a contest provoked by the sudden death of the then leader, John Smith.