ROUNDTABLE ON WOMEN AND THE MEDIA SET FOR CHICAGO

[George Conklin <gconklin@igc.org>]

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> CONTACT: Sheila George WACC North America
> 906-430-1001 sheilageorge100@hotmail.com

ROUNDTABLE ON WOMEN AND THE MEDIA SET FOR CHICAGO

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. It?s an opportunity for journalism
students to consider issues of women and the media from a global perspectiv e.
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. The
Foundation has published the findings of a major
study on the topic in its ?Global Report on the
Status of Women in the News Media.?

Working journalists and members of the public are
also welcome to attend the roundtable. It will
take place at Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd floor (building SE).

> WACC is an international organization that
> promotes communication for social change.

For more information on the roundtable, please
contact WACC North America President Sheila George
at sheilageorge100@hotmail.com.