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05 May 2021 Research on gender equality in the news is critical and it needs more funding

Posted at 12:48h in Gender, Gender and media: Challenges and opportunities in the post 2015 era, GMMP 2020, Journalism, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

Sarah Macharia, co-ordinator of WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has underscored the importance of funding gender data building initiatives such as the GMMP and the recently launched Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe (GEM) report and dataset saying, “there’s a real risk...

08 Mar 2020 25 years after Beijing Declaration, ‘we still don’t have an equal world’: UN report

Posted at 16:14h in Calls for Action, Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

While life today is better for a 15-year-old girl in a developing world, she will nonetheless have to keep fighting against tremendous odds because progress made in the last 25 years “though important, has been incremental, uneven and insufficient,” says a new report launched by UN Women...

17 Oct 2019 GMMP receives award for advancing role of women in the news

Posted at 10:45h in Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) received the Donald H. McGannon Award today and its global coordinator, Sarah Macharia, described it as an affirmation of the project, the network of volunteers, and the movement for gender equality....

19 Aug 2019 Dig deeper into plight of displaced persons, report urges Nigerian media

Posted at 13:33h in Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

Nigerian media pay “little attention to the real issues” affecting the country’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), ignore their voices and often rely on statements from government officials when reporting about them, a WACC-supported media monitoring project has concluded in its report.

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30 Jul 2019 WACC project among award recipients at 2019 Parker Lecture

Posted at 12:44h in Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), WACC’s flagship initiative since 1995, will receive the Donald H. McGannon Award at the United Church of Christ’s 37th annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture and Awards Breakfast October 17, in Washington,...

12 Jun 2019 GMMP findings have global impact and influence

Posted at 16:06h in Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

In the lead up to the next GMMP in 2020, we look back at some news and feature articles, as well as studies that have used the project's compelling findings....

11 Jun 2019 Global Media Monitoring Project findings ‘serve humanity’

Posted at 09:38h in Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

The impact of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) cannot be overstated, says journalist-activist Amie Joof....

30 May 2019 ‘An inspirational story of grassroots volunteers’

Posted at 10:10h in Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News, WACC North America 0 Comments

The #MeToo movement has “brought to light some of the gender violence directed against women,” and Glory Dharmaraj wonders whether this would have an effect on the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) in 2020. ...

01 May 2019 GMMP logo gets a makeover

Posted at 09:25h in Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News, WACC Africa, WACC Asia, WACC Caribbean, WACC Europe, WACC Latin America, WACC Middle East, WACC North America, WACC Pacific 0 Comments

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) logo – with figures of a woman reading the news from a desktop computer and a man reading a newspaper while perched on a globe – has been refreshed....

02 Apr 2019 Global Media Monitoring Project 2020 needs volunteers

Posted at 09:53h in Media and Gender Monitor, News, WACC Africa, WACC Asia, WACC Latin America 0 Comments

Do you have a passion for either gender equality, women’s rights, human rights, or ethical journalism? Are you curious about how to unpack and analyze media content from a gender perspective?

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