How women and girls are represented in the media has a fundamental impact on the way they see themselves and understand their role in society, and how they are viewed by men. Despite some notable effo...
Emma Goodman
Emma Goodman is working on a report to map and analyse the research and various initiatives that are addressing issues around gender and news media, looking both at numbers of women in the newsroom, and how women and gender issues are represented in news content.
She also works as a Policy Officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she edits the Department of Media and Communications’ blog Media@LSE, as well as contributing to policy briefings on topics such as political campaigning in the digital age and regulation of social media. Additionally, she is co-editor of the annual report Innovations in News Media, published by INNOVATION Media Consulting, tracking the evolution of news publishers’ business models and editorial practices.
Previously, she spent five years at the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers in Paris, researching and writing about international media trends, focusing on how newspapers handled the transition from print to digital.
Regulation of information spread on social media: is it being done too hastily?
Tighter regulation of information spread on social media and other digital information companies is on the horizon. But is it being done too hastily? Current laws in France and Germany, and legislatio...
Malicious content on social media: what journalists and civil society can do about it
Could global alliances of civil society and journalists finally hold social media companies accountable for curtailing malicious content in emerging economies? Since disinformation emerged as a widel...
Do online comments on news sites have a future, or will we see more and more news organisations closing their comment boards and handing all their conversations over to Facebook and social media? Is...
The end (of an article/video) is just the beginning: the significance of online comments
In the old world of print-only newspaper journalism, once a journalist had sent his/her article to the editor it was job done and time to head to the bar. Feedback meant one of three things; a rocket ...
