In the United States and parts of Europe, the #MeToo movement has transformed many industries, including media, by calling out and often toppling powerful men who have harassed and assaulted women (an...

Much has been said about women as journalists and media managers, about their being victims, about a lack of opportunity, about their being kept under glass ceilings, being paid less, given less oppor...

In this panel, Hostwriter, an open network that helps journalists to easily collaborate across borders, will discuss the importance of bringing different voices to the table in a panel of global journ...

A commitment to gender equality, through both organisational structure and content, is a marker common to the news publishers studied in the latest report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of J...

Around the world only 24% of the people seen, heard or read about in the news are women, and only 19% of subject matter experts sourced in the news are women (Global Media Monitoring Project, 2015 Who...

The #metoo movement in India was set off by Priya Ramani’s 12 October 2017 article in Vogue India entitled To the Harvey Weinsteins of the world in which she accused a former editor of hers – wi...

There are certain narratives around Muslim women that seem to be fed into and off global media. Muslim women are veiled, resilient, have overcome odds, have broken the shackles of a very particularise...

Last year in Perugia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led an interactive panel on the use of sexual violence to silence women journalists. The discussion helped to scope the range of ways t...

To be a journalist used to be a sought-after profession. But with job prospects declining and the trust debate in full swing, becoming a reporter or editor is losing out on attractiveness for many. At...

Egypt is near the top the list worldwide when it comes to sexual harassment. For the first time there has been a case in court against an editor. May Elshamy accused her editor of sexual harassment in...