Paola Gianturco has written a number of books about women's issues and their triumphs
Celebrating Women
Women who light the dark
Viva Colores
She's telling us about her travels -- and the stories in places like Zimbabwe,, Vietnam and Morocco where women use poetry to bring attention to childhood rape, who use puppets to talk about issues of domestic violence and a theatre group that showed illiterate women the impact of new laws that helped to ensure women were treated the same way as men, respectively.
Showing posts with label "women in media and news". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "women in media and news". Show all posts
Saturday, September 6, 2008
International Panel
Good Morning!
The first of two morning panels is about to get underway here at the JAWS Fall Symposium. The session, an international panel, will discuss how "international issues are being covered at home, how hard it is to pitch international stories related to women, women reporting overseas and how to find -- and best tell -- the untold stories of women overseas."
The panelists are:
Peg Simpson, freelance writer from D.C.
Paola Gianturco, documentary photographer, author
Lois Raimondo, staff photographer The Washington Post
Sahar Sarshar, videographer for voice of America, and video/radio for the Iran chanel.
We're having a little trouble getting all of the technology in the conference room set up, but things should begin shortly.
The first of two morning panels is about to get underway here at the JAWS Fall Symposium. The session, an international panel, will discuss how "international issues are being covered at home, how hard it is to pitch international stories related to women, women reporting overseas and how to find -- and best tell -- the untold stories of women overseas."
The panelists are:
Peg Simpson, freelance writer from D.C.
Paola Gianturco, documentary photographer, author
Lois Raimondo, staff photographer The Washington Post
Sahar Sarshar, videographer for voice of America, and video/radio for the Iran chanel.
We're having a little trouble getting all of the technology in the conference room set up, but things should begin shortly.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Talking Sourcing at JAWS - and and invitation to JAWS members
This is cross-posted from WIMN's Voices, the media analysis group blog of Women In Media & News, a national women's media analysis, media education and media advocacy group. -- Jennifer L. Pozner, Executive Director, WIMN
Quick note -- there's a powerful set of women in journalism gathered in Door County, Wisconsin this weekend for the annual Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) conference. Last night, I led one of twelve discussion groups about what bothers female journalists about representations of women in news media -- and what we as journalists can do to improve these content problems both in our individual reporting/editing/producing, and what we can do to affect institutional change.
Our group focused on the sourcing problem (it turned out numerous others did, too) -- the underepresentation and marginalization of women and people of color as sources, experts, pundits, commetators and the like -- and the way this flattens out stories, makes each story seem to similar to every previous story, and makes it harder for readers and viewers to see themselves reflected in our coverage... which of course loses audiences. We talked about many of the causes of the underrepresentation, and many individual as well as institutional factors that play in... as well as individual and institutional solutions we could employ to attempt to improve the situation.
We also talked about how JAWS members and JAWS colleagues could make better use of WomenIn Media & News's POWER (Perspectives Of Women Expand Reporting) Sources Project -- the first project of its kind, founded in 2001, the POWER Sources Project is anational network of ethnically, geographically and professionally diverse women experts who are ready to serve as sources for journalists. We've helped print, broadcast and online journalists connect with articulate, informative, media savvy, qualified sources on hundreds of topics. These are not people journalists can call only when looking for "women sources" -- they're go-to resources for journalists looking for great sources, period.
Anyway, there's much more to say about this session, but it's 8am and I'm already missing breakfast. I will likely be posting guest posts from JAWS members throughout the day or the following week. JAWS members are learning to liveblog - some for the first time - so their posts will most likely happen at http://jaws07.blogspot.com/ -- check it out. But, we will likely bring you JAWS' members reflections on the content and representation discussion, as we feel this is an important set of reflections from women in the trenches, and it's crucial that the larger public understands that women (and especially women of color) working in journalism at every level -- from interns and new beat reporters to high-level execs, news managers and news division heads share some of the same frustrations WIMN's Voices readers do... the structural critique we have of media content linked to media consolidation is real, and very relevant to the ability of journalists being able to do their jobs most effetively, inclusively and to most authenticaly cover our communities.
NOTE TO JAWS ATTENDEES: I'd like to repeat the invitation I made last night at the post-dinner session, to write up your reflections on the discussions we had last night about representations of women in news media (sourcing, content areas, solutions, whatever you discussed), so that our readership -- 90,000 unique visits per month on a good month -- who are extremely interested in issues related to women and the media will be able to hear some of the frustrations, challenges, solutions and strategies from women in the media biz. If you would like to post, email info[at]wimnonline[dot]org
Quick note -- there's a powerful set of women in journalism gathered in Door County, Wisconsin this weekend for the annual Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) conference. Last night, I led one of twelve discussion groups about what bothers female journalists about representations of women in news media -- and what we as journalists can do to improve these content problems both in our individual reporting/editing/producing, and what we can do to affect institutional change.
Our group focused on the sourcing problem (it turned out numerous others did, too) -- the underepresentation and marginalization of women and people of color as sources, experts, pundits, commetators and the like -- and the way this flattens out stories, makes each story seem to similar to every previous story, and makes it harder for readers and viewers to see themselves reflected in our coverage... which of course loses audiences. We talked about many of the causes of the underrepresentation, and many individual as well as institutional factors that play in... as well as individual and institutional solutions we could employ to attempt to improve the situation.
We also talked about how JAWS members and JAWS colleagues could make better use of WomenIn Media & News's POWER (Perspectives Of Women Expand Reporting) Sources Project -- the first project of its kind, founded in 2001, the POWER Sources Project is anational network of ethnically, geographically and professionally diverse women experts who are ready to serve as sources for journalists. We've helped print, broadcast and online journalists connect with articulate, informative, media savvy, qualified sources on hundreds of topics. These are not people journalists can call only when looking for "women sources" -- they're go-to resources for journalists looking for great sources, period.
Anyway, there's much more to say about this session, but it's 8am and I'm already missing breakfast. I will likely be posting guest posts from JAWS members throughout the day or the following week. JAWS members are learning to liveblog - some for the first time - so their posts will most likely happen at http://jaws07.blogspot.com/ -- check it out. But, we will likely bring you JAWS' members reflections on the content and representation discussion, as we feel this is an important set of reflections from women in the trenches, and it's crucial that the larger public understands that women (and especially women of color) working in journalism at every level -- from interns and new beat reporters to high-level execs, news managers and news division heads share some of the same frustrations WIMN's Voices readers do... the structural critique we have of media content linked to media consolidation is real, and very relevant to the ability of journalists being able to do their jobs most effetively, inclusively and to most authenticaly cover our communities.
NOTE TO JAWS ATTENDEES: I'd like to repeat the invitation I made last night at the post-dinner session, to write up your reflections on the discussions we had last night about representations of women in news media (sourcing, content areas, solutions, whatever you discussed), so that our readership -- 90,000 unique visits per month on a good month -- who are extremely interested in issues related to women and the media will be able to hear some of the frustrations, challenges, solutions and strategies from women in the media biz. If you would like to post, email info[at]wimnonline[dot]org
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