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100 Women: 100 Women 2015: Is News Failing Women?

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Is News Failing Women?

23/11/2015 GMT

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Debate: Why and how news is failing women, and what can be done to change the situation?

How does the news represent women?  Are they fairly featured? Reports show that in some countries women are less likely to consume traditional news media but are far more engaged than men on social media and emerging platforms in others. Why is that? 

Four of the world’s leading news editors, Ben de Pear, editor of Channel 4 News, Kate O'Brian, president of Al Jazeera America and Fran Unsworth, deputy director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC and Verashni Pillay editor-in-chief of the Mail and Guardian discuss the issues in front of an audience of news consumers, journalists, bloggers, activists and academics to look at the reasons why, and debate what needs to be done to change it.

Is News Failing Women? will be hosted by BBC World News presenter, Philippa Thomas in the BBC Radio Theatre, London.
 
Our front row includes Emma Tucker, Deputy Editor of the Times, Somayya Jabarti, Editor, Saudi Gazette, Yasmin Ahmed, law student and Claire Fox, Institute of ideas, UK.
 
Joining us live by satellite link-up are Paula Escobar, Editor of Magazines at Empresa Periodistica El Mercurio in Chile and Elizabeth Plank, Senior Editor of Mic News in the USA

Image: Iraqi al-Iqtisadiyah TV channel reporter Hoda Haddad Credit: Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images

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