Articles about Media Houses
Editor's note
03 February 12
By Saeanna Chingamuka
New year, new beginnings! Welcome to Issue 24 of the Diversity Exchange, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) monthly newsletter. The New Year all starts with most of us making resolutions for what we want to achieve in the year. As the GMDC, we are starting on an exciting... [read more]
New year, new beginnings! Welcome to Issue 24 of the Diversity Exchange, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) monthly newsletter. The New Year all starts with most of us making resolutions for what we want to achieve in the year. As the GMDC, we are starting on an exciting... [read more]
Media COE's Training of Trainers - 12-15 February 2012
03 February 12
As GL moves ahead with efforts to mainstream gender in media institutional practice and content, a training of trainers (TOT) workshop will take place from 12-15 February 2012. This workshop aims to explore best strategies for providing support and backstopping to media COEs [read more]
Vacancy: Gender and the Media Country Facilitator Malawi
03 February 12
Gender Links, a Southern African NGO based in Johannesburg specialising in gender, media, women's rights and governance, seeks the services of an experienced individual to serve as a country facilitator for its media Centres of Excellence (COE) project in Malawi. The main task of the incumbent will be to work with... [read more]
Gender in Media Education Research launched in Mauritius
13 December 11
On 21 November, the University of Mauritius' Mass Communications Unit in partnership with the Gender Links (GL) Francophone Office in Mauritius launched the research on Gender in Media Education (GIME). In total, 104 participants (84 female and 20 male) including academics, media practitioners, students and... [read more]
Sexual harassment a well-known office secret
01 December 11 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Africa
Sarah Banda* is a female journalist who has been working in the media for three years. She experienced sexual harassment at work, and as a journalist has the desire to speak out. However, like many women who either currently or previously faced sexual harassment, she’s scared to disclose her name for fear that... [read more]
Sixteen Days of Activism Opinion/ Commentary and "I" Stories
16 November 11
Once again, Gender Links will be offering an expanded menu of content from the Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service during the upcoming 16 Days of Activism, available to media houses across Southern Africa. [read more]
SADC countries back tracking on media freedom
16 November 11
While positive signals elsewhere in the continent show that governments are embracing principles of free access to information, Southern African Development Community (SADC) seem to be retrogressing. Namibia and South Africa, once beacons of media freedom in the region, are no longer conducive environments for the... [read more]
Gender, climate change and sustainable development - November 2011
15 November 11
Regional relevance: Regional
This concept details GL's planned activities in the run up to, during and after the United Nations 17th Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 17) taking place in Durban from the 28th of November to the 9th of December 2011. Gender Links, (GL) and the African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWCFS) plan to train... [read more]
Sex sells, but does the public really buy that?
16 September 11
Several incidents in recent months have put the issue of the limits to freedom of expression under the spotlight. The phone hacking scandal in Britain showed that some media houses are ready to scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to getting information. What is the motivation: critical information of... [read more]
Tanzania pioneers the launch of media Centres of Excellence in SADC
05 August 11
The 9th of August will be a big day for the GL's gender and media programme. The first Media Centres of Excellence will be launched in Tanzania. The COE project is a follow up to the gender and media research, advocacy, training and policy work that GL has been conducting in SADC since its establishment in 2001. GL... [read more]
