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
✔ Know what gender balanced content is and why it is important
✔ Know how to create (or edit) content that is gender balanced
✔ Discover how gender balanced your own content is (or is not)
✔ Be able to measure how gender balanced content is
✔ Put your new knowledge about gender balance into practice.
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 Friday, 10 July. We encourage you to follow this recommended schedule to ensure that you stay on track over the next few weeks:
Lesson 2 by 23 June
Lesson 3 & Assessment by 28 June
Podcast by 5 July
Lesson 4 (Activity 1) by 5 July
Lesson 4 (Activity 2) by 10 July