International Journalism

In an excerpt Niemen Reports published from a book about gender and journalism, Margaret Gallagher wrote in 2001: “Wherever one looks in the world, women still have relatively little decision-making…

A South American journalist believes stories women cover best are what the public now wants.

The Global Media Monitoring Project 2000 finds great disparities in news coverage of men and women.

‘Ordinary women only are considered news when something they’ve done is “bad”….’

Surveys by the International Federation of Journalists find similar challenges but contrasting results for women in different countries.

‘Women turn the camera’s eye on their own lives.’

[Journalists] ‘have a somewhat conformist approach towards women’s issues.’

By training rural women how to tell their stories, the coverage of news changes.

Rural African women are trained in the use of reporters’ technological tools.

At Women’s Feature Service, journalists write about women’s lives.