A reading for the winter solstice: a look at the relationships between women and news in Kenya. South Africa, Mexico, Brazil. Hong Kong, Japan, UK, Finland, Germany, US, and South Korea
My report with @simgandi for https://t.co/UnpeR4BBwg." target="_blank">@risj_oxford
https://t.co/UnpeR4BBwg. Some thoughts below.

Men are more likely than women to say they are extremely interested or very interested in news. This is a tiny part of a bigger story.
Women talk about news with their friends, face to face.
Women are much more likely to get their news from TV
And just look at what is happening inside each of the countries. In Mexico, as @julianafregoso and Dr. María Elena Gutiérrez Rentería orgs like @Cimacnoticias are fighting to highlight the shocking levels of femicide other news orgs are ignoring.

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In the US, as @joyjenkins points out, @19thnews is putting women at the front and center of news
In Kenya, @VerahOkeyo talks about the fury over how women victims are portrayed, and the sheer levels of trolling female news anchors receive.
In Brazil @rodcarro writes of the nuanced role of women, who have managed to get some of the top jobs in journalism but still face a battle to shape the narrative
In Finland @jennikangas talks about how the country's main newspaper @hsfi has used data and lifestyle content to boost membership among both men and women
In Hong Kong's extraordinary year of news, Grace Leung and I talk about the #ProtestToo movement and why it matters to have women selecting images in news as well.
Ahran Park talks about why South Korean women in their twenties lave such low levels of trust in news, and how defamation laws stymie reporting on sexual assault, even as the #MeToo movement spread
A slew of women have taken top jobs in the UK media, including @khalafroula, @EmmaTuckerST and Victoria Newton, and @CaithlinMercer talks how new outlets like @galdemzine and @BlackBalladUK are pulling more women into the news ecosystem
@yasuomisawa @yasusawaENG in Japan points out how male dominated Japanese news still is, but some new initiatives, like Abema TV, are at least trying to bring in some change.
@ChrisRoper and @A_Strydom examine South Africa's paradox, of having a high number of female editors in chief in a country of huge gender inequalities.
@JuliaBehre and Sascha Holig in Germany look at how Instagram is drawing women into news, in a country where mainstream media talks a great deal about gender balance but rarely delivers it.

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Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
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Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
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The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"