Global Launch Event London

Who Makes the News? Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005

15th February, 2006 (from 09:30 to 14:00)

Foreign Press Association, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AJ

Programme for the day

09.30 – 10.15: WACC Press Conference: international release of GMMP 2005 findings (to speak: international GMMP coordinator Anna Turley, data analyst and report author Margaret Gallagher and international monitors from Zimbabwe and Bangladesh)

10.15 – 10.45: Coffee and media roundtable registration

10.45 – 11.00: Welcome by Randy Naylor, General Secretary, WACC

11.00 – 13.00: Media Roundtable in the style of “The Commission.” Introductory video (5 minutes): “From Rhetoric to Reality: Where are the Women?” (Produced by TVE, 2000)

13.00 - 14.00: Reception (bar and light buffet)

Media Roundtable Question:

Good journalism involves a search for diversity and balance in subject matter, perspectives and points of view. Fair representation of women is simply a matter of good journalism. The” Who Makes the News? 2005” report shows that this is currently not the case.

Chair:

Jon Snow, Presenter Channel 4 News

Panelists:

- Ferial Haffajee, Editor of the Mail & Guardian, South Africa

- Lesley Abdela MBE, Eyecatcher Associates / Shevolution, Chief Executive of Project Parity

- Stephen Pritchard, Board Member of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen and Readers' Editor ofThe Observer

- Bob Jobbins OBE, former head of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs and Chairman of the Rory Peck Trust

- Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News and recipient, Royal Television Society Specialist Journalist of the Year Award 2003 and 2005

- Yosri Fouda, Western Europe Correspondent for Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel

Witnesses:

- Agnès Callamard, Article 19

- Dafna Lemish, WACC

- Gita Sahgal, Amnesty International

- Mindy Ran, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)

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"Who Makes the News?" Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media is endorsed by both UNESCO and UNIFEM

UNIFEM promotes women's human rights, political and economic empowerment and gender equality in over 100 countries around the globe. In 2006, UNIFEM is observing its 30th Anniversary

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