Digital justice means closing the gender digital gap, say WACC partners
Gender integration — through inclusive policies and practical initiatives — is urgently needed i...
25 September, 2023
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Global Media Monitoring Project tools can address gender blind spots in news industry
A webinar on 25 April took a closer look at how to address two significant gender blind spots in the...
27 April, 2023
Using new technologies to create safe and diverse media spaces
Women journalists and activists can use the internet to their advantage and find support to help the...
17 March, 2023
Education, advocacy, and action key to advancing gender justice in digital spaces governed by algorithms
Churches and civil society group must focus on questions of power around artificial intelligence (AI...
10 March, 2023
Democratic society needs women in the media, concludes Al Jazeera panel
Women are underrepresented in the news, and democracy — as well as individual citizens — suffers...
20 January, 2023
GMMP global coordinator to speak on Al Jazeera panel on media diversity
An upcoming Al Jazeera English broadcast on the gender gap in media will feature Sarah Macharia, glo...
17 January, 2023
Webinar breaks ground for ecumenical gender and media observatory
An introductory webinar to social media monitoring on 8 December took the first steps towards establ...
12 December, 2022
Webinar to offer practical tools to root out gender cyberviolence
The webinar “Rooting out gender cyberviolence: An introduction to social media monitoring” on 8 ...
02 December, 2022
WACC calls for action to end digital violence against women
As the Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence launch for 2022 on 25 November, WACC...
25 November, 2022
Municipalities are key players in developing gender-just media
The media can be both ally and threat to girls and women. The content media transmit or the conduct ...
26 October, 2022
New gender deal for media needed to ensure women’s communication rights
It is time to establish a new gender deal for media and digital communications, concluded participan...
21 October, 2022
El Salvador: Only a quarter of news subjects and sources are women
El Salvador joined the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) for the fifth time in the project̵...
16 August, 2022
Ecuador: Women account for only 16% of experts quoted in news
The proportion of subjects and sources who are women increased by one point in the Ecuadorian news m...
08 August, 2022
No progress in visibility of women in Finnish news for last 15 years
Women’s visibility in Finnish news has “stagnated,” at around 30% or below over the la...
28 June, 2022
Dominican Republic: Gender equality in the news remains elusive
Women continued to be a “significant minority” compared to men who were seen, heard, or ...
21 June, 2022
In Costa Rica, women represent 38% of people in online news
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) team in Costa Rica is highlighting the need for journalis...
17 June, 2022
Danish news media show gains and losses in gender representation
Monitoring of Danish newspapers undertaken as part of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)...
11 April, 2022
Men ‘over-represented’ as news subjects and as journalists in Cyprus media monitoring
The rise of digital news platforms has not brought “tangible positive change towards a more ge...
05 April, 2022
Canada: Just 31% of news subjects are women
“Not so bad, but not so good either” — this was how the Global Media Monitoring Projec...
01 April, 2022
Male voices dominate coverage in China, which has largest news media audience worldwide
Men still dominate the news in China, with women making up only 25% of persons seen, heard, or writt...
01 March, 2022
Gender inequality persists in Cameroun news
The Constitution of the Republic of Cameroun enshrines gender equality, freedom of expression and fr...
25 February, 2022
Slow progress in representation of women in Bosnia-Herzegovina news
“It is again noticeable that there has not been any progress made in the last five...
08 February, 2022
Gender stereotypes plague Brazilian news
Women appeared as subjects in 27.8% of Brazilian news media analyzed by the 6th Global Media Moni...
03 February, 2022
Women ‘highly underrepresented’ as news subjects, sources in Belgian news
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) team in Belgium is urging Belgian news media and policyma...
21 January, 2022
Gender stereotypes still ‘widely unchallenged’ in Austrian news
The underrepresentation of women in Austrian news media continues, with data from the latest Global ...
12 January, 2022
Male sources remain a ‘substantive majority’ in Australian news
Women and girls remain underrepresented as sources of news in Australian journalism — they con...
15 December, 2021
Gender and Media in Africa: Lessons on resilience for the road ahead
Noting that Africa has been “at the tail end” regarding women’s participation as s...
08 December, 2021
GMMP-Argentina report shows decline in women’s visibility in news
The percentage of women seen, heard, or read about in Argentinian news media has dropped by 5%, acco...
07 December, 2021
From Awareness to Accountability on Gender Violence in the News Media 16 Days of Activism Campaign
Fresh insights from Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) reveal an underrepresentation of girls an...
24 November, 2021
Women appear more in news about crime, violence in Latin America
A “worrying” situation captured by Latin American countries who took part in the 6th Global...
19 November, 2021
Newsrooms without women: The future of journalism in Afghanistan
Photo: Derek Brumby/Shutterstock Imagine a newsroom without women, where all staff, without exceptio...
07 September, 2021
Women still less likely to be quoted as experts in European news
Women’s voices are “still not more visible” across the European media landscape, and if they d...
25 August, 2021
Pacific media see strides in representation of women in the news
News media in the Pacific Region saw significant improvements in their representation of women since...
10 August, 2021
Gender-equal news coverage crucial in post-pandemic recovery, says UN Women Executive Director
Noting that the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) shows that women “remain shockingly un...
16 July, 2021
6th GMMP: No country in the world meets the mark on gender equality in news content
Posted at 10:08h in Communication Rights, News, Uncategorised0 Comments No country or region in ...
15 July, 2021
6th Global Media Monitoring Project show quantitative gains, qualitative losses
[Spanish here] [French here] All things remaining equal, it will take at least 67 more years to clos...
14 July, 2021
6th Global media monitoring report on gender to be launched 14 July
MEDIA ADVISORY Results of the sixth and largest study on the portrayal and representation of women i...
06 July, 2021
GMMP Results: Glacial progress towards media gender equality 25 years on
New data from global research with additional analysis of Covid-19 news Twenty-five years after the ...
03 March, 2021
Working for WACC-GMMP, ‘I felt like I was part of a global community,’ says intern
When she began her stint last September as an international development intern at WACC, Sohailia Say...
27 January, 2021
#16Days campaign calls media attention to #shadow pandemic
Lockdowns and curfews intended to contain the spread of Covid-19 have led to a free-fall into gender...
24 November, 2020
Gender equality and the world’s news media
Drawing on data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), European Institute for Gender Equal...
23 November, 2020
GLOBAL MEDIA MONITORING PROJECT TAKES PLACE AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Toronto – The Covid-19 pandemic did not put a damper on the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Proje...
28 September, 2020
GMMP pilot test, and more
Just over three months following the decision to postpone the global monitoring day, we have made st...
04 August, 2020
Embedding Intersectionality into Gender: GMMP 2020
The dual shadow cast by Covid-19 pandemic and the death of George F...
03 August, 2020
More equal or more political?
Prof. Krisztina Rozgonyi and her class at the University of Vienna's Communication Department conduc...
17 July, 2020
Combating violence against women journalists
Report on violence against women journalists issued by the Special Rapporteur on violence against wo...
09 July, 2020
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19 June, 2020
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