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Challenging the Glass Ceiling: Study of Women in the Newsroom in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam: Media Council of Tanzania (2019), viii, 31 pp.
"This study has reconfirmed that the challenges facing media women still persist. The glass ceiling is still intact. There are still fewer women in decision making position than man. Women are more likely to be paid less than their male counterparts and upward mobility is very small. Situations wher
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Intensified Attacks, New Defences: Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 70 pp.
"The period between 2014 through the end of 2018 has seen 495 journalists killed, according to UNESCO data, which represents an 18% increase in the number of killings as compared to the preceding 5-year period (2009-2013). Based on the number of killings, the most dangerous regions for journalists a
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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
Deep Insights
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), 2nd ed. (2019), 110 pp.
"The Handbook showcases IAWRT members’ experiences and best practices for working towards advancing gender equality in and on the media in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, India and Uganda." (Publisher description)
Female journalists under attack? Explaining gender differences in reactions to audiences' attacks
New Media & Society, volume 22, issue 10 (2019), pp. 1849-1867
"The literature on public figures attacked by their audiences is unclear why female and male figures react differently to attacks. This study examines why female journalists are more likely than male journalists to use avoidance strategies as a reaction to online attacks. Avoidance includes limiting
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
New York: Penguin Books (2019), xxiv, 278 pp.
"International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and male--meaning we see only one side of the story. But a growing number of intrepid Arab women, whose access to and understandin
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50:50 Project
BBC (2019), 37 pp.
"A year ago, I set our teams a challenge: to aim for at least 50% women contributing to BBC programmes and content by April 2019. In this report, you’ll see how they’ve turned that challenge into a creative opportunity which has fundamentally transformed our approach to representation. This repo
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Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations
London; New York: Routledge (2019), 222 pp.
The Safety of Women Journalists: Breaking the Cycle of Silence and Violence. An Overview of Nine Countries
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 58 pp.
"This report assesses the question of how women in media are being targeted and how journalism is impacted by gender specific harassment and violence. It also looks at to what extent this issue is being effectively addressed on a national level and supported by the international community since the
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Sector publicitario y género: Agencias de publicidad, asociaciones, sindicatos e instituciones educativas analizados con perspectiva feminista
Buenos Aires: Comunicación para la Igualdad Ediciones (2019), 174 pp.
"La publicidad pareciera ser una industria con marcada paridad laboral si se la evalúa desde el punto de vista de la inclusión de las mujeres como fuerza laboral, ya que éstas representan el 49,5% de las personas empleadas. Sin embargo, el análisis al interior del rubro da cuenta de notables des
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Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 243-250
"Pre-publication censorship has been abolished, private journals and papers abound (although the issue of consolidation caused by financial strains is another matter) and, depending on your calculations, there are between 2,000 and 5,000 accredited journalists in Myanmar, at least half of whom are w
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Money - Power - Stereotypes: Does Gender Equality in the Media Really Matter? International Comparative Gender Study in Georgia, Moldova and Russia
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences (ISESP RAS) (2019), 19 pp.
"One interesting trend to follow is the feminisation of the journalism profession. The trend is global but especially prominent in the countries covered by this study: the findings indicate that the gender balance is shifting in Moldova and Georgia, whereas women are now dominating among media profe
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Global Journalism: An Introduction
London: Red Globe Press; Macmillan International Higher Education (2019), xxii, 282 pp.
"Providing a truly comprehensive overview of international journalism and global news reporting in the digital age, this new introductory textbook surveys the full variety of contexts that journalists around the world operate in; the challenges and pressures they face; their journalistic practices;
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Gender and media: A holistic agenda
Media Development, volume 65, issue 1 (2018), pp. 4-40
Women in Israeli Journalism Israel Affairs
Israel Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2018), pp. 500-518
"This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two in
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Toward Gender Equity: Women and Media in Cambodia
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 45 pp.
"More men than women work in the media, including in management positions. Women have joined the industry in greater numbers in recent years, particularly through recruitment of university graduates; radio has the highest proportion of young women journalists. A higher proportion of women had full-t
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