A webinar on 25 April took a closer look at how to address two significant gender blind spots in the news industry: the lack of women of colour in leadership positions and persistent stereotyping of women in news coverage. These conclusions emerged from the research...
Women journalists and activists can use the internet to their advantage and find support to help them stay safer online, concluded speakers at “Safe Zone: Creating media space for diverse women with ICT,” an event organized by WACC and Global Forum for Media Development partners...
Churches and civil society group must focus on questions of power around artificial intelligence (AI)—be that tech, political, gender, or racial power—and examine who is being included and excluded, concluded speakers at a 9 March webinar at the NGO CSW67 Forum running parallel to the...
Women are underrepresented in the news, and democracy — as well as individual citizens — suffers as a result, a panel of gender and media experts stressed during the episode “Why are women still poorly represented in news media?” of The Stream on Al Jazeera...
An upcoming Al Jazeera English broadcast on the gender gap in media will feature Sarah Macharia, global coordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Macharia will be joined by GMMP Europe regional coordinator Prof. Karen Ross and another panelist on the 18 January episode...
An introductory webinar to social media monitoring on 8 December took the first steps towards establishing a global, ecumenical observatory to gather evidence on gender-based violence content in the media and advocate for change. The hands-on event “Rooting Out Gender Cyberviolence” was organized by WACC...
The webinar “Rooting out gender cyberviolence: An introduction to social media monitoring” on 8 December will give WACC members and partners the opportunity to take action against the harmful—and growing—phenomenon of online gender-based violence. During the 60-minute learning event, organized by WACC in collaboration with...
As the Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence launch for 2022 on 25 November, WACC is calling on its members and partners to take action to end digital violence against women. The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) defines digital violence as violence that...
The media can be both ally and threat to girls and women. The content media transmit or the conduct they enable on digital platforms can deny the right to live free from violence and discrimination. But local authorities are well placed to drive change, Sarah...
It is time to establish a new gender deal for media and digital communications, concluded participants at a conference co-convened by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) and hosted by Complutense University of...
El Salvador joined the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) for the fifth time in the project’s 25-year history and found a “low participation and representation” of women in the news. Women accounted for 25% of subjects and sources monitored in newspapers, radio and television, and...
The proportion of subjects and sources who are women increased by one point in the Ecuadorian news media, or from 22% in 2015 to 23% in 2020, according to data from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). However, that representation is still three points...
Women’s visibility in Finnish news has “stagnated,” at around 30% or below over the last 15 years, according to the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)-Finland report. This, even though the European Institute for Gender Equality ranks Finland fourth in the European Union on the...
Women continued to be a “significant minority” compared to men who were seen, heard, or written about in Dominican Republic news media, according to the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which took a snapshot of the day’s news in September 2020. Women accounted for...
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) team in Costa Rica is highlighting the need for journalism trainings focused on gender sensitivity and gender ethical reporting after its latest study showed that gender inequality persists in Costa Rican news. Women constitute 32% of persons seen, heard,...
Monitoring of Danish newspapers undertaken as part of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) show “both progress and decline for gender equality in the news,” but overall, women’s visibility remains significantly lower than men. The proportion of female news sources and actors increased to...
The rise of digital news platforms has not brought “tangible positive change towards a more gender-balanced” representation in stories by Cyprus media, according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) research. Women’s representation on Twitter news and online news was only 17%, even lower...
“Not so bad, but not so good either” — this was how the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) team from Canada summed up the results of its 6th research on gender portrayal and representation in Canadian news. Women accounted for only 31% of subjects in...
Men still dominate the news in China, with women making up only 25% of persons seen, heard, or written about in newspapers, radio, television, and online news, according to the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) China report prepared by the Beijing-based NGO Media Monitor...
The Constitution of the Republic of Cameroun enshrines gender equality, freedom of expression and freedom of the press as democratic principles. Media liberalization imposed by a demand for freedom of expression and information led to a vibrant media environment with numerous print, audiovisual and online...
“It is again noticeable that there has not been any progress made in the last five years when it comes to representation of females in the news” in Bosnia and Herzegovina media, according to the NGO Novi Put, which took a snapshot of the day’s news for...
Women appeared as subjects in 27.8% of Brazilian news media analyzed by the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), a figure slightly higher than the Latin American average of 26% However, women are heard, seen, and interviewed mostly as someone relating a “personal experience”...
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) team in Belgium is urging Belgian news media and policymakers to “represent the diversity of society and not only the voices of the male elite,” citing the latest GMMP data which finds that women are still “highly underrepresented” as...
The underrepresentation of women in Austrian news media continues, with data from the latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) showing that of 345 news subjects and sources analysed in the sample, only 91 were women. Overall, women account for 25% of people seen, heard, or...
Women and girls remain underrepresented as sources of news in Australian journalism — they constitute a little more than half the population in 2020 (50.4%), but only make up less than one-third (32%) of people quoted or discussed in news stories monitored by the 6th...
Noting that Africa has been “at the tail end” regarding women’s participation as sources, subjects and reporters of news, Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) coordinator Sarah Macharia urged attendees at the Africa Women in Media (AWiM) Conference to help create a “more just and equal”...
The percentage of women seen, heard, or read about in Argentinian news media has dropped by 5%, according to the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) country report. In 2020-21, women only make up 24% of subjects in Argentina’s newspaper, television, radio, and Internet news,...
Fresh insights from Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) reveal an underrepresentation of girls and women as subjects and sources in gender-based violence (GBV) news during the Covid-19 pandemic. 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign (25 November...
A “worrying” situation captured by Latin American countries who took part in the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the rise in the representation of women in the news as victims of violence, criminality and femicide, according to the Latin America regional report released July 14. Of...
Photo: Derek Brumby/Shutterstock Imagine a newsroom without women, where all staff, without exception, are men. Now imagine all newsrooms in an entire nation with men only, across all jobs, from the reporters, to the technicians, to the editing staff and managers. This threatens to be...
Women’s voices are “still not more visible” across the European media landscape, and if they do get seen, heard, or read about they are still largely in stories that are stereotypically held to be in the private or domestic domain, according to the 6th Global...
News media in the Pacific Region saw significant improvements in their representation of women since 2015, with results from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) showing a 19% increase in the number of women tapped as experts and a five per cent increase in the number...
Noting that the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) shows that women “remain shockingly underrepresented” in news content around the world, UN Women Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary-General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called for more stories that “reflect the diversity of women’s expertise and perspectives.” In a foreword to...
Posted at 10:08h in Communication Rights, News, Uncategorised0 Comments No country or region in the world has achieved gender equality in terms of people portrayed as subjects and sources in news content, said feminist scholar Sarah Macharia, who shared the results of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) during an online...
[Spanish here] [French here] All things remaining equal, it will take at least 67 more years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media worldwide. This was one of the key findings of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy...
MEDIA ADVISORY Results of the sixth and largest study on the portrayal and representation of women in the world’s news media will be released online on 14 July 2021 9 am (New York EST), 3pm (Brussels CET) Please register through this link to attend the press...
New data from global research with additional analysis of Covid-19 news Twenty-five years after the Fourth UN World Conference on Women (Beijing), the news media remain far from being inclusive spaces for women, vulnerable women, and historically marginalized groups, according to preliminary results released by...
When she began her stint last September as an international development intern at WACC, Sohailia Saywack said she expected to be “deeply immersed” in the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the organization’s flagship initiative that studies the representation of women in the world’s news media. “I...
Lockdowns and curfews intended to contain the spread of Covid-19 have led to a free-fall into gender-based violence (GBV) this year. According to UN Women,“this is the shadow pandemic growing amidst the Covid-19 crisis” and everyone has a role to play to address it, including the...
Drawing on data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), and the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), this book offers new insights into the qualities, causes, and consequences of gender equality in and through the news media. The book...
Toronto – The Covid-19 pandemic did not put a damper on the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), Tuesday, Sept. 29, attracting thousands of volunteers from 145 countries worldwide. GMMP 2020 is the sixth in a series of extensive gender and media monitoring studies conducted...
Just over three months following the decision to postpone the global monitoring day, we have made strides towards preparing for this unique GMMP. Prof. Krizstina Rozgonyi with her students at the University of Vienna conducted a pilot test of the new ‘GMMP-during-Covid’ coding instruments on Twitter and Internet news, with results that are both encouraging and concerning. Read Rozgonyi’s analysis and some of her students reactions in this issue.
The dual shadow cast by Covid-19 pandemic and the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police brutality has made many of us in the United States of America “see” things which often go unreported or underreported in the media landscape. The dual pandemic has unveiled social inequities as never before. News media have been relentlessly capturing evolving impact stories of Covid-19 as well as systemic racism.
Prof. Krisztina Rozgonyi and her class at the University of Vienna's Communication Department conducted a pilot test of the GMMP 2020 media monitoring research instruments during the Covid-19 lockdown. A report on the findings and the students' reactions.
Report on violence against women journalists issued by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović.
Welcome to the third issue of Let’s Connect | Restons Connectés | Mantengamos la conexión, our space as the GMMP network to think, plan and act together during these unprecedented Covid19 times.
Análisis del Observatorio de Medios de Comunicación e Información de la Mujer A.C, de la cobertura periodística sobre la participación política de las mujeres, si los medios acompañaron la paridad política con la representación mediática.
Report on a rapid assessment study of the impact of COVID-19 on the work of women-led organisations affiliated to Mosawa Network.
A WACC partner project by LGBT*IQA Association Okvir to develop an archive of LGBTQ struggles in the Balkans during the 1990s-2016 war and post-conflict years. Bringing visibility to the stories of survival of LGBT*IQA persons and refugees.
A message from the Caribbean by Hilary Nicholson, WMW-Jamaica. GMMP regional coordinator.
Briefing paper from ACT Alliance on the gendered dimensions of Covid-19
Media monitoring research by Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT-Egypt) on gender-based violence in television drama aired during the Holy month of Ramadan.
Karen Ross, GMMP regional coordinator for Europe, and Claudia Padovani, GMMP national coordinator (Italy) are sharing free resources they have developed for teaching gender and media in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
La realización del VI Monitoreo Mundial de Medios previsto para este año 2020 tuvo que ponerse en pausa, como se puso la vida. Queremos invitar para que mantengamos la conexión en este espacio a partir de las vivencias y relatos que se puedan...
This year 2020 presents an unprecedented challenge but also the greatest opportunity in our 25-year GMMP journey.
Investigación: Cómo los medios tradicionales se refieren a los temas vinculados a estos sectores y cómo los mismos usan la red social Twitter en Argentina
Declaration from participants at the WACC gender & communication workshop in preparation for the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project. Held in Cuenca, Ecuador. February 2020.
A group of women’s rights organizations and non-governmental organizations is urging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to postpone the adoption of the final draft version of its Political Declaration. The group is concerned that it “omits a clear commitment to ending violence against women and sexual minorities in all spheres including the media offline and online,” and to “eliminating gender stereotyping in the media.”
In a country such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has “a strong patriarchal tradition and dominant stereotypes about women,” Abida Pehlic can’t emphasize enough how important the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has been since her organization, Novi Put, joined the research in 2015.
To what extent is gender violence based on culture, family, rape, sexual assault, trafficking, and similar violations considered newsworthy enough to be featured in mainstream television, radio and print news
Monitoreo sobre la “Cobertura informativa a la pobreza y a las poblaciones pobres” en Bolivia: Las dimensiones y causas de la pobreza y las formas en que se visibiliza y/o invisibiliza en el sistema mediático a los sujetos y poblaciones pobres.
Media Monitors and the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists monitored 19 local media outlets for 30 consecutive days in April 2016 to understand the quality and nature of news reporting on poverty.
A report on gender in agriculture news in Vietnam inspired by the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). 2010 news articles published in online and print newspapers over the period January to June 2015 were monitored.
Visiones sobre los y las jóvenes pobres en los medios gráficos argentinos. Análisis de 156 noticias que tenían como protagonistas o referían a jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad social.
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