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In NZ and around the world, women are still more likely to present and report the news than appear in it

  • Written by Susan Fountaine, Associate Professor of Communication, Massey University
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Women are more visible in the world’s news than ever before — but they’re still far from achieving parity with men.

According to the just released Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), women made up 40% of reporters and 25% of news sources across print, TV, radio, internet news and Twitter.

This was a record...

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