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News UK’s diversity plan: If you have no targets, it’s not important to you

2020-11-24. With a three-pillar diversity strategy, News UK aims to address both representation needs and business aims.

La transformación se acelera con diversidad y pluralidad en las redacciones

2020-11-18. Emily Ramshaw, Co-fundadora y CEO, The 19th, de Texas, y Andiara Petterle, Vicepresidenta de Producto, Desarrollo y Operaciones del Grupo RBS, de Brasil, han compartido sus experiencias en implantación de diversidad de género y transformación en redacciones en la segunda sesión del Digital Media LATAM 2020.

Jordanian Etaf Roudan gets top leadership award from Women in News

2020-11-03. WAN-IFRA Women in News has named Etaf Roudan, director of Radio al-Balad in Jordan as its 2020 WIN Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for the Arab Region. The WIN Editorial Leadership Award is given annually to outstanding editors, one from the Arab Region and one from sub-Saharan Africa, in recognition of excellence in leadership, and an unwavering commitment to equality and press freedom.

WINner’s stories: Winnie Najjuma’s WIN journey

2020.09.30 – While starting out on this journey, I honestly did not know what to expect. When I was sending my application, I only did it because I had promised myself to apply for any opportunity that crossed my way. I had seen friends posting about their WIN journeys on social media and I knew this would be one opportunity that I would most likely not be admitted to. Not that I do not believe in myself but I think I had tried so many times and I had not received any positive response.

WINner’s stories: How WIN re-energized and shaped my journalism career

2020.16.09 – For me, participating in the 2020 Women In News (WIN) Leadership Accelerator programme came as a breakthrough in my professional development and revamping our media organization when my team and I were struggling with the establishment of a new Refugee Media project we had just formed.

WAN-IFRA Women in News names Mary Mbewe the 2020 Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for Africa

2020-09-08. Today, WAN-IFRA Women in News names Mary Mbewe, Executive Editor of the Daily Nation in Zambia as the 2020 WIN Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for Africa. The announcement will be made at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Africa conference.

WINner’s stories: Sexual Harassment in the Media

2020-09-02. Sexual harassment is a scourge in our societies and it is no different in the media. Women in News is working with executives, editors and women journalists to put policies in place that call out inappropriate behaviour within the workplace. But harassment still goes on. Here two WINner’s share their experiences.

Sexual Harassment: the unspoken media scourge

2020-09-02. We know both anecdotally and from WIN research that the problem of unwanted sexual advances in news organisations is huge. But what practical steps should you take if you are harassed or someone, to whom you as a manager owe a duty of care, is the target?

WAN-IFRA Women in News supports women journalists in Lebanon as part of the Social Impact Reporting Initiative in the Arab Region

2020-09-02. Following the Beirut explosion on 4 August, 2020, WIN launched a special initiative as part of the Social Impact Reporting Initiative to support women journalists who are covering the aftermath of the blast. 12 journalists were selected to receive WIN’s support. By being part of this initiative, selected journalists will produce articles and stories to be published in Lebanese newspapers and websites, focusing on the social and cultural impact of the traumatic event.

Reinventing the Newsroom for the New Normal

2020-09-02. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the media landscape has seen a lot of changes and disruptions; from having to set up virtual newsrooms, to ceasing print editions, and adapting to the audience’s new appetite for health and science coverage.