Rewriting her story: how news coverage can fight, not fuel, violence against women
Sat 18 April 2026
16:00
Free
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Violence against women, enabled by damaging social norms and structural inequalities, is endemic worldwide. From Tate and Epstein to P. Diddy and conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan and Ukraine, the face of gender-based violence is overwhelmingly male. Too often, news coverage of violence against women reinforces harmful stereotypes—something that can and must change.
Insights from AKAS’ inaugural Global Misogyny Coverage Tracker will anchor this session in groundbreaking evidence, highlighting how violence against women reporting remains scant, incident- rather than system-focused, dominated by male experts, and largely missing survivor voices and solutions angles. The panellists will forge a path forward for news coverage that is more likely to lead to positive change for survivors and societies.
Moderated by Luba Kassova.
Organised in association with AKAS.
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Francesca Donner
Francesca Donner is founder, editor and CEO of The Persistent. She was previously an executive editor at Quartz where she is focused on the future of work, women and gender. Before joining Quartz, Francesca was the editor of In Her Words, a three times weekly column at The New York Times which examined topics including politics, economics, business and culture -- all through a gender lens. Prior to The Times, Francesca was a deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the business of management and worked on digital newsroom strategy. Francesca grew up in the UK, is a graduate of Brown and Stanford universities in the U.S. She currently lives in Connecticut.
Angelina Kariakina
Angelina Kariakina is a journalist, researcher, and co-founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab in Ukraine. She has worked as a journalist for over 17 years – with print media, TV, and online. She worked as Euronews’ Kyiv bureau correspondent for 3 years, and 5 years with the independent Ukrainian media Hromadske – three of them as editor-in-chief. She is the author of the documentary investigations on the Maidan killings and Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia and has also covered the refugee crisis in Europe. A graduate of the Sergei Bukovsky Documentary School, she was head of news at the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster Suspilne (2021–2023) and is the current advisor to the Chair of the Board. She is also a member of the European Broadcasting Union News Committee and researcher, author, and editor at the Public Interest Journalism Lab’s The Reckoning Project, which documents Russian war crimes. She has researched Russian tactics for targeting medical infrastructure in Syria, Chechnya, and Ukraine and is co-author of reports on countering conspiratorial propaganda, overcoming distrust towards vaccination, and Ukrainians’ hopes and concerns about military service. She has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Die Zeit, Eurozine, and other outlets.
Luba Kassova
Luba Kassova is a journalist, researcher, and co-founder of the audience-strategy consultancy AKAS, having previously headed up the Audiences team for BBC News. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Westminster. Luba was recognized as one of twenty trailblazing women in journalism in 2025. Her insights, articles, and reports have been featured in major publications across more than 80 countries. Her Missing Perspectives of Women series, covered in over 400 outlets and websites worldwide, recently earned its seventh accolade: a Gold Anthem Award for social impact. In 2025, her Substack newsletter was named one of the 40 essential newsletters to read. Luba has provided audience strategy consultancy to news outlets and organizations including Channel 4 News/ ITN, The Guardian, International Center for Journalists, Committee to Protect Journalists, The Fuller Project, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Internews, Ukraine’s Public Service Broadcaster – UA:PBC, and Hromadske.
Tracy McVeigh
Tracy McVeigh is the editor of the Guardian's global development desk, and editor of foundations and philanthropic projects.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
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