Gender Balance in Content
A course for media professionals
Who’s it for?
Media professionals who create, edit and approve content or shape news agendas:
Reporters
Editors
Editorial management
Course objectives
✔ Identify what gender balanced content is and why it is important
✔ Explore ways how to create (or edit) content that is gender balanced
✔ Check how gender balanced your own content is (or is not)
✔ Measure how gender balanced content is
✔ Implement new techniques to improve gender balance content
Course methods
Live, interactive learning sessions
Online home learning sessions and activities
WIN tracking exercise
Assessments and assignments
Course timings and deadlines
The course should take approximately 4 hours total to complete, including all videos, activities, and assessment/submissions. The final submission deadline (the Gender Balance Action Plan) is Monday, 10 May 2021. We encourage you to follow this recommended schedule to ensure that you stay on track over the next few weeks:
First 3 online articles submission: 16 to 20 May 2022
Lesson 1 to 6 and the Quiz: 30 May to 10 June 2022
Lesson 7 to 12 and the Quiz: 16 to 27 June 2022
Final submission of 3 articles: 15 August 2022