Under #EndStereotyping, the blog intends to redress the gender insensitive gap within media coverage as well as influencing the mainstream media towards gender equality through responsiveness to subject matter.
The study also realized a gender selective reporting where there is a relationship between the sex of the reporter and the proportion of female and male news subjects appearing in print news stories. Female reporters covered more female news subjects and quoted more females in their stories as opposed to the male reporters. In equal measure, male journalists gave more audience to male sources but also within talk shows of purely male presentation, women suffered a low engagement under similar likelihood.
The training on Gender sensitive reporting boosted Alice Nalugya’s confidence to cover any story. she shares her experience. “I am a female but most of the times I have been wondering why men take the lime light and yet I grew up with my mum and she provided for my needs singlehanded. It is unfortunate […]
