Noted journalists and media and gender specialists will be part of the panel at the roundtable “Who Makes the News: A Global Review” to take place at Columbia College Chicago on March 6, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. The event is being co-sponsored by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)–North America, and Columbia College Chicago.
Sarah Macharia (left) and June Nichalson (right)

The roundtable will help journalists of the future explore the global realities of gender and media, from the journalists and newsmakers and their bosses, to the content and sources in news stories. It will highlight the results of WACC’s 2010 report of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)—the world’s most extensive research on gender in news media in the U.S. and around the world.

Roundtable panellists include:

• Manya Brachear, religion reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Brachear also has written for Time magazine, The Dallas Morning News, Beliefnet.com and the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
• Sarah Macharia, WACC Global staff, coordinator of the GMMP, and editor of Media and Gender Monitor.
• June Nicholson, director of graduate studies and associate Professor in the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, and lead editor for The Edge of Change: Women in the 21st Century Press.
• The panel will be moderated by Norma Green, who is a professor in the journalism faculty at Columbia College Chicago and director of the graduate program there. A representative from the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) will also participate on the panel. Read more...

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