Recently, women in the media have begun to push the boundaries of representation across print, radio, and television. But there is still a significant gender gap in terms of the positions held by women and the beats they are allowed to cover. As a guest on Television Continental’s (TVC) Breakfast Show, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola, a…
The Pan African webinar is a professional collaborative initiative featuring African women in the Media, Journalist for human right( JHRnews) and AWiM’s ‘Source her program’ to address the Gender Gap in Media representation of women journalists, experts and professionals. Introduction of the Webinar Winfred Syombua, a representative of JHR opened the sessions by identifying that…
Anticipate these well researched investigative reports by female Journalists participating in African Women in Media’s ‘Reporting Violence Against Women and Girls’ project,’ supported by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism Anticipate!!! CAN OF WORMS: EXPOSING PERSISTENT ABUSE OF GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES IN OWO – Olufisoye Adenitan FAMILY PLANNING RIGHTS: INVESTIGATING OBSTACLES TO ACCESSING CONTRACEPTIVE…
View on Zencastr Phathiswa Magopeni is a South African-born media personality, and former Head of News and Current Affairs at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the SABC. Phathiswa, in episode 25 of Her Media Diary Podcast opens up about her early life, the challenges she…
View on Zencastr Eugenia Abu is a distinguished broadcaster, author, media consultant, and one of Nigeria’s finest broadcasters and compères renowned for anchoring the 9:00 pm news on the Nigerian Television Authority for seventeen years. In episode 24 of Her Media Diary podcast, Dr Yemisi Akinbobola had the honour of speaking with Eugenia Abu, a…
