Course description
This course will focus on understanding the key concepts of gender-sensitive journalism with emphasis on the progress, protection and promotion of women’s rights in the newsroom. The training will cover issues such as the impact of gender inequality, anti-discrimination, gender stereotypes, women’s rights, gender sensitive language among others. It will equip participants, at either early or mid-career level with the critical skills to report from a perspective of gender-sensitive values and on news stories that challenge the gender stereotype.
Curriculum
- 15 Sections
- 36 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Course Introduction2
- Module 1- Introduction to Gender Concepts & Contexts3
- Module 2- Gender Theories and Paradigms3
- Module 3- Global frameworks that guide Gender Reporting3
- Module 1-3 Instructional Video1
- Module 4- Examining global policy, legal and regulatory frameworks that guide gender reporting3
- Module 5- Gender and the Media context3
- Module 6- Women in Media Management3
- Module 4-6 Instructional Video1
- Module 7- Interrogation of gender-lens in reporting women issues3
- Module 8- Approaches in reporting stories today3
- Module 7-8 Instructional Video1
- Module 9- Modeling Gender-sensitive reporting3
- Module 10- Developing Prevention and Responsive Gender-sensitive Reporting criteria.3
- Final Video1