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Media and aid campaigns

This report documents the results of a large international study on media coverage of women. On 16 February 2005 groups throughout the world gathered to monitor the news media. This was to be the third Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). An international collective effort that has taken place at five-yearly intervals since 1995, the GMMP systematically monitors the representation of women and men in news content. It provides a unique global analysis of who makes news, in what capacity, and with what level of authority.

The 2005 report shows the following findings:

• women are dramatically under-represented in the news. Only 21% of news subjects - the people who are interviewed, or whom the news is about are female
• women's points of view are rarely heard in the topics that dominate the news agenda
• when women do make the news it is primarily as 'stars' (celebrities, royalty) or as 'ordinary' people
• as authorities and experts women barely feature in news stories

The report puts forward a five year plan for the media which it intends to monitor in the next Global Media Monitoring Project.

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