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The Chilling: What More Can News Organisations Do to Combat Gendered Online Violence?
UNESCO; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2022), 42 pp.
"[...] many newsroom reactions to gender-based online violence appear to have been non-existent, ad hoc, or inadequate. At times, they have even damaged the women journalists targeted. Large global news organisations sometimes identified as “best practice” exemplars by expert responders intervie
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Moving Barriers to Investigative Journalism in Latin America in Times of Instability and Professional Innovation
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1890-1908
"Latin American journalism has experienced recent transitions marked by digital affordances, including a growth of investigative journalism. The region has also experienced more political and economic instability, giving rise to a wave of threats and harassment against journalists. This repeated cro
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"This learning brief aims to summarise key issues, evidence and trends on media and gender and help PRIMED partners identify opportunities to empower women as both media consumers and content producers as well as to amplify the voices of women in the media. It explores the links between improved gen
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Making the Invisible Visible. Guideline 3: An Intersectional Gender Guide to Protection Training
Article 19 (2022), 20 pp.
"This document is the second of a set of three practical guidelines that provide recommendations for considering an intersectional gender approach when: monitoring and documenting attacks against journalists and social communicators (Guideline 1); advocating on emblematic cases for advocacy (Guideli
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Gender Violence Against Journalists: Data on Gender-Based Attacks and Cases That Victimized Women in Brazil in 2021
UNESCO; Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (ABRAJI) (2022), 38 pp.
"Monitoring data indicate that in 2021 there were a total of 119 attacks against women journalists and/or gender attacks involving media professionals. Hence, it means that, on average, an attack occurred every three days. A striking aspect is the importance of gender: among the 119 cases, 38% were
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From Outrage to Opportunity: How to Include the Missing Perspectives of Women of All Colors in News Leadership and Coverage
Key Guides
Gates Foundation (2022), 282 pp.
"This independent, solutions-based report, the third in the Missing Perspectives series, focuses on how to break down two fundamental barriers, previously identified, that women face: their underrepresentation and cultural exclusion in news leadership at the top of news organizations/in the highest-
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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. Sri Lanka Country Report
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 7 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in Sri Lanka: The severe economic crisis in the country poses yet another challenge to a media barely recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic; existing issues in the media industry such as poor wages and wo
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“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists
Social Media + Society, volume 8, issue 2 (2022), 10 pp.
"Reports of the online harassment of journalists have continued to increase as more newsrooms place higher emphasis on social media engagement with audiences. However, this harassment is subject to gendered dynamics, as women journalists are most often the target of online abuse, and the attacks the
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Brief No.1: Media Restrictions and the Implications for Gender Equality in Afghanistan
Kabul: UN Women (2022), 29 pp.
"After nearly 20 years of international investment and successful efforts to build a diverse media landscape and strengthen journalism standards, the Afghan media sector has fundamentally changed for the worse since the Taliban (also referred herein to as the de facto authorities) takeover on 15 Aug
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Newsroom Representation and Discrimination Against Female Journalists in Ghana
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 297-318
"In journalism, there are still growing concerns about the ratio of men to women, even though women's presence in the newsroom have increased progressively. The issues of gender stereotyping and discrimination against women have emerged over time and still remain an issue of great concern. In view o
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The Chilling: Assessing Big Tech's Response to Online Violence Against Women Journalists
UNESCO (2021), 35 pp.
"This is an extracted chapter of a wider UNESCO-commissioned global study on online violence against women journalists produced by the Inter-national Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The full-length study will published in 2022. The chapter identifies the role of big tech companies and especially soci
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Female Journalists and Safety Challenges in Selected Media Organizations in Kano State, Nigeria
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 366-393
"Journalism schools have being witnessing an increase in female enrollment in Nigeria, but this is not proportional to the number of women who work in media organizations. For the women who eventually get employed as journalists, they experience various safety challenges which affect their advanceme
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Online Harassment of Female Journalists in Bangladesh: Forms, Reactions, and Consequences
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 143-166
"The online harassment of female journalists is a rising concern around the world and also in South Asia. Bangladesh, a South Asian country, recently, has experienced an increasing number of harassments against female journalists online. Various studies explored the online harassment, mostly from th
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The Voice of Women and Challenges of Gender Equality in Georgian Media
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 232-250
"This research analyzes the media landscape in Georgia from a gender equality perspective to identify the existing stereotypes dominant in Georgian media organizations. Georgia (country) faces the challenges related to femicide, domestic violence, employment of women, early or forced marriages, sexu
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Pioneras en los estudios latinoamericanos de comunicación
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2021), 209 pp.
"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras
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Guía breve para mujeres periodistas: Periodismo de género sensible al conflicto y medidas de protección digitales y en terreno
Key Guides
Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción; International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 56 pp.
"Consejo de Redacción presenta esta breve guía con recomendaciones para que periodistas, comunicadores y comunicadoras, y medios de comunicación puedan incluir en su quehacer un periodismo con enfoque de género que sea sensible al conflicto. Este documento contiene un contexto sobre la situació
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The new frontline: Women journalists at the intersection of converging digital age threats
"The chapter identifies the new threats posed by digital developments and how they affect women journalists in particular. There are three main converging safety threats confronting women journalists in the digital age: online harassment and abuse against women journalists; orchestrated disinformati
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