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JOURNALISM IN - THE #METOO ERA

30 Oct 2024

changes in the media ecosystem: the adoption of ethical Journalism has forever been changed: the attention being charters, the creation of gender editor posts — journalists paid to the status of women journalists and to the issues who ensure that women and minorities are treated more of gender-based violence are testament to that. [...] The role of these journalists is multi-sectoral across the entire newsroom team, from analysing the proportion of women experts among the journalists’ sources, to the way in which female bodies and those of minorities are portrayed in the choice of illustrations. [...] ©Women in media UKRAINE: WOMEN IN MEDIA, THE NETWORK THAT TRAINS JOURNALISTS TO COVER GENDER ISSUES IN TIMES OF WAR In 2022, against the backdrop of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian Women in Media network collaborated with La Strada, one of the country’s leading women’s rights organisations, to offer journalists an online training course entitled “Strengthening the capacity of independent media. [...] According to this reporter, in 2024, “women’s voices are banned from the media, even if it’s just women who want to call a radio station to ask the presenter a question.” This type of directive comes from the Taliban regime’s new institutions, including the Ministry of Information and Culture, but also the intelligence service (Istihbarat), the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Preven. [...] They write using a pseudonym and I look forward to the day when we can recognise their identity and their courage in broad daylight.” After several investigations into the extent of domestic violence and the wave of suicides by women, some of which were published by the British daily The Guardian, Zan Times has made a tally of the murders of women involved in the public sphere.

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