Peer-to-Peer

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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a segment from In the Balance, a monthly newsletter (and a website) providing journalists with inspiration for more balanced and richer stories. Each episode, we sit down with a journalist to talk about how to better include women and gender perspectives in the news. This podcast is hosted and produced by Ahlem Khattab. To learn more about our project, you can head to inthebalance.news (http://inthebalance.news) Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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P2P #2.2 - Nabeelah Shabbir on how to deal with gendered online violence

Jan 26 2024 20 mins

It’s heavy but necessary work. Since 2019, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has been studying how online violence against women journalists occurs and operates in the help of ultimately coming up with solutions and systems that help prevent escalations that might lead to offline harm.In 2022, the ICFJ published The Chilling, a report presenting their findings so fa

P2P #2.1 - Megan Clement: “Gender journalism is not activism”

Sep 08 2023 22 mins

She's one of the authors of the “Gender is Part of Every Story,” a report on gender journalism based on a survey of 100 media professionals across the globe. Megan Clement has long covered different topics (politics, climate, migration, human rights…) with a focus on women’s perspectives. She’s also the editor of Impact, a bilingual newsletter at the intersection of polit

P2P #6 - Ed Yong on gender bias and the need for more diversity in health reporting

Apr 07 2023 28 mins

Before becoming a writer, Ed Yong studied zoology then biochemistry, but realized that he’d rather explain science to others than be a scientist. Today, he’s an award-winning journalist and author, notably known for his writing on the world of animals and the Covid-19 pandemic (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 2021). In 2018, Ed published an article titled “I Spent

P2P #5 - Zahra Nader on journalism and women in Afghanistan

Mar 28 2023 26 mins

In less than two years, the Taliban have erased 20 years of progress for Afghan girls’ and women’s rights according to the latest estimates by UN experts. They have also restricted press freedom, and women journalists were the most affected by that: more than 84% of them have lost their jobs since August 2021, whereas 52% of men have. While many local media outlets were forced

P2P #4 - Shreya Raman on how to make the most of data in your reporting

Feb 24 2023 19 mins

After working for a year in broadcast journalism at the news channel Mirror Now, Shreya Raman started digging into data to unearth stories. She spent three years as a reporter with IndiaSpend, the first data journalism initiative in India, then almost a year as a data analyst with India Migration Now, a research, data and media agency. Living between Mumbai and Goa, she now report

P2P #3 - Laura Zelenko on how Bloomberg makes women count in business news

Jan 31 2023 26 mins

Currently the Global Standards Editor at Bloomberg, Laura Zelenko has been a journalist for over 40 years, and has spent most of her career with this business and finance-focused news organization. In 2018, she launched New Voices, a training program that aims to bring in the news more women who are experts in the economy. In this insightful conversation, Laura Zelenko recounts h

P2P #2 - Annette Young on journalism, gender and war

Dec 15 2022 13 mins

Annette Young is a news TV presenter and the host and creator of “The 51 Percent” on France 24, a show that strives to promote gender equality through a focus on women’s stories and perspectives in all fields. Throughout her career, she has worked as a reporter, a producer and many other positions for different Australian and French news outlets such as The Sydney Morning He

P2P #1 - Francesca Donner on how to start including gender in your reporting

Dec 13 2022 12 mins

Francesca Donner has been in the world of news for over 20 years. She has been an editor for Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and more recently The New York Times and Qwartz. At NYT, she also served as a Gender Director and edited the column “In Her Words,” covering all beats through a gender lens. She told us how she started questioning her work for a more accurate representat