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Sharon Adetutu OmotosoAugust 8, 2019

Social media is distorting the representation of women in Africa. Here’s what can be done about it

“The new media continues in the ways of the old conventional media — that is, it supports patriarchy and negative portrayal of women.”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 6, 2019

Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge

“The only way to put women in leadership is to do it for the first time.”

Christine SchmidtMay 23, 2019

News outlets post way more pictures of men than women to Facebook

Also, men’s faces actually take up more space in the pictures.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 16, 2019

The BBC’s 50:50 Project shows equal gender representation in news coverage is achievable — even in traditionally male areas

“We’ve had a positive response from political parties who now accept that this is how BBC News operates and have been more imaginative in which spokespeople they put up for interview.”

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 21, 2019

The state of women in U.S. media in 2019: Still f’ing abysmal — especially at Reuters and the AP

“The media is in a state of great disruption, but despite all the change, one thing remains the same: fewer women report the news than men.”

Joshua BentonNovember 2, 2018

If you let commenters go after your reporters, it hurts your credibility with other readers

The bright side (?): Women don’t seem to face a higher credibility penalty from a mean comment than men do.

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 20, 2018

Here’s what the Financial Times is doing to get bossy man voice out of (okay, less prominent in) its opinion section

“She wrote a fabulous piece that did incredibly well and I think there’s no way on earth that (a) she would have submitted or (b) it would have run, before we started this stuff. It got more than double the usual number of pageviews for an opinion piece.”

An Open LetterJune 19, 2018

How to end misogyny in the news industry: An open letter to the international journalism community

“We are done pandering to the egos of change-resistant influential men in the hope that our gentle lead will eventually encourage them to join us on a meander toward gender equality in the news business.”

“If you don’t have gender equality in your newsroom, it’s like running on one leg. And in the current climate, the male leg is limping”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 14, 2018

News stories in Europe are predominantly by and about men. Even photograph sizes are unequal.

Across 11 countries studied, 41 percent of bylines were male, 23 percent female.

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