Gender Based Journalism Workshop in Mersin Ends

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 Run by IPS Communication Foundation and Free Journalists Association and supported by Kaos GL, Mersin leg of “Gender Based Journalism Workshop” continued on its second day.

Gender basedjournalism workshop was realized at the meeting in which women and LGBTİ organizations’ members, journalism and communication faculty students attended.

The participants picked a news they found problematic from national newspapers and wrote from the scratch in a gender based way at the workshop, which was carried out with four groups consisting of communicators and NGO representatives.

Topics such as how news terminology can be cleansed of sexism and discrimination were discussed.

The workshop ended after TV interview experience.

About the project

“Gender Based Journalism Guidebook and Library Project” is being supported by the European Union European Tool for Democracy and Human Rights (DİHAA) Fund.

The project that will last two years aims to discuss the ways for transformation of discourses and practices of mainstream media’s dominant prejudice towards gender. In the first year, in the journalism workshops that will be organized in eight centers in Turkey, women and LGBTİ organizations’ representatives and journalists will come together and discuss masculine journalism practice’s issues and the ways to deal with those.

The secondy year will go on with regional workshops and round-table discussions. A gender based journalism guidebook and online library will be formed via the collective work that will emerge from deliberations of workshop content that is to be formed by newspaper and TV coverage monitoring.

Finally, Gender Based Journalism Conference will be organized as part of the project. (EA/TK)