The future of gender-just journalism: from coverage to culture
Sab 18 aprile 2026
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Gender justice is not a niche topic; it is a critical lens required to accurately report on climate, technology, politics, and economics. This panel will move beyond discussing representation to explore the structural and cultural changes necessary to achieve gender-just journalism. We will examine how newsrooms can intentionally embed a gender and intersectional perspective into their daily reporting, and how some feminist reporters and writers have shifted to newsletter platforms like Substack in order to create new media that centre gender-just stories.
As the industry grapples with declining trust and news avoidance, ensuring journalism is reflective and fair to diverse populations is paramount. This panel offers concrete strategies for news leaders and reporters to decolonize news narratives and address the systemic inequalities that currently limit journalism's scope and impact. Four globally recognised leaders whose expertise spans activism, global investigations, and mainstream media strategy will provide a dynamic and multi-faceted discussion.
Moderated by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah.
Organised in association with the Institute for Journalism and Social Change.
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Eliza Anyangwe
Eliza Anyangwe is Managing Editor of CNN’s multi-award-winning gender inequality reporting team As Equals, and co-founder of The Gender Beat, a collaborative project to promote nuanced, impactful gender journalism and build a supportive community for those who produce it, particularly in the Majority World. Before joining CNN in February 2021, she was Managing Editor of The Correspondent, a platform for constructive, member-funded, ad-free journalism. Eliza has spoken about gender, journalism or international development on stages from SXSW to TED Global; has written for Open Democracy, Al Jazeera and the FT, and has appeared on Newsnight, BBC World Service, PRI’s The World and Our Body Politic, among others. She is a contributing author to Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century, published by Routledge.
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a communications strategist, facilitator, and a writer. She has over 15 years of training, facilitation and leadership experience in feminist organisations like the African Women’s Development Fund and The Association for Women's Rights in Development where she served as the Director of Communications and Tactics. Nana Darkoa has a proven track record of developing and delivering strategic communications programmes across media, public sector and non-governmental organisations. She has a deep understanding of digital technologies for feminist activism, and is widely recognised as a key African feminist working at the intersections of gender, sexualities and technologies. Nana Darkoa is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Institute of Journalism and Social Change, and leads MAKEDA PR, a boutique feminist communications agency. She is also the author of The Sex Lives of African Women, and hosts the podcast Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women as well as And then what?, a podcast about the impact of journalism.
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.
Mona Eltahawy
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. She is editing an anthology on menopause called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrum. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second, The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019), took her disruption worldwide. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she is founder and editor-in-chief of the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT.
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work on culture, identity and social justice. She presents the flagship BBC documentary Africa Rising, the global series Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson, and the podcast Legacy, and is founder of her production company Born in Me Productions. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Equal To Everything and Decolonising My Body, A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty. A journalist for two decades, she is a former Guardian correspondent, Associate Editor at Vogue, and professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.