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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MISREPRESENTED CONTEXT

1. I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.


2. Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

3. They stopped there and implied that I am promoting the massacre of the French.

4.If they had read d posting in its entirety & especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by & large the Muslims hv not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings

5. Because of the spin and out of context presentation by those that picked up my posting, reports were made against me and I am accused of promoting violence etc… on Facebook and Twitter.

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