GMMP is only 5 months away!

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GMMP is only 5 months away!

By Chloe Shantz-Hilkes, Project Assistant for the GMMP, WACC

Global media monitoring day for GMMP 2009/2010 is only 5 months away! This November volunteer media monitors all over the world will once again monitor news in their local newspapers, television and radio stations for selected indicators of gender in news content and practice.

In preparation for the GMMP 2009/2010, we’ve made a number of exciting additions to our website. Please visit http://www.whomakesthenews.org/ and take a look! We are continually updating the list of regional and national coordinators for the project, but are still missing coordinators for a number of countries and would be extremely grateful for any volunteers or suggestions. If you are interested in participating as a media monitor, please contact your national coordinator for more information. We would be thrilled to have you on board!

For those who have already expressed an interest in becoming media monitors for the GMMP, please begin familiarising yourselves with the methodology used in the 2005 project. It is available at http://www.whomakesthenews.org/media-monitoring-methodology.html. A few revisions will be made, but the parameters currently in place will remain mostly the same. Keep in mind, the methodology used in the GMMP is a great learning tool for critical media literacy from a gender perspective!

We also welcome any and all additions to our online discussion forum which can be found at http://www.whomakesthenews.org/forum.html. We hope that this forum can quickly become a place to share ideas and generate excitement about this wonderful initiative. We invite you to post thoughts, relevant articles, questions, etc. Your member login should allow you to access the forum, but if you encounter any difficulties don't hesitate to contact us as always.

As you know, GMMP 2009/2010 is particularly exciting because it coincides with the review of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals Review Summit scheduled for March and September of 2010 respectively. The GMMP results will lend further support to both these reviews by providing media-based statistics indicating progress or alternatively, persistent gaps, in the achievement of commitments made in both documents.

We hope, as always, that this year’s GMMP will bring us one step closer to achieving gender-just media across the globe!

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GMMP planning committee member honored

Internews has honored Tasneem Ahmar, a member of the GMMP planning committee, for her leadership in improving coverage of women’s issues and bringing women’s voices and perspectives to Pakistan’s media.

Tasneem is Director of the Uks Research Center, a research, resource and publication center focused on women and media in Pakistan, a country where less than 5% of journalists are women. Disturbed by the negative portrayal of women in Pakistani media, Ahmar launched Uks in 1997 to sensitize the media on how to report on women and human rights in a more balanced way. Under Ahmar’s leadership, Uks has worked tirelessly to promote gender equality through sensitization workshops, mentoring, media advocacy and media monitoring. Read more...

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