Salient features of proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority Ordinance 2021
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JournalismPakistan.com May 28, 2021 Published 5 hours ago
HAVANA The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Women’s Media Foundation, Article 19, and Cubalex rights groups have demanded in a joint statement that the Cuban government must release female journalist Mary Karla Ares immediately.
Yamiche Alcindor Named Moderator of WASHINGTON WEEK Published on
WASHINGTON WEEK, the Peabody Award-winning weekly PBS news analysis series produced by WETA, is proud to announce its newest head moderator, Yamiche Alcindor. Alcindor is currently the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, a position she will retain. She is also a political contributor for NBC News and MSNBC and has worked as a reporter for USA Today and The New York Times.
“I am incredibly honored and grateful to take the helm of WASHINGTON WEEK,” Alcindor said. “This show has an amazing legacy, and I am thrilled to step into it. I hope to build on it, to expand it and to bring this show forward distinctively into these times of challenge and controversy. In doing so, my guiding light will be serving our audiences and not shying away from the hard conversations about power and politics.”
Institute gender responsive support in newsrooms
Thursday May 20 2021
The recent editorial changes at the Nations Media Group Uganda (NMG-U) showed a rather common challenge the media industry grapples with. Out of the over 10 top editorial positions that were announced, only two were occupied by females.
This is a not a problem of the NMG-U or Uganda alone though. It is one the media across the world faces. According to the 2011 study by the International Women Media Foundation, globally, 73 per cent of the top management jobs in the media were occupied by men compared to 27 per cent by women. In the United States, the American Society of News Editors reported in 2013 that women accounted for only 34.6 per cent of supervising positions.