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Remoland Townhall Meeting: A Historic Step Towards Ending Gender-Based Violence

Reducing gender-based violence requires collective effort: political will, community leaders’ commitment, and religious reteaching. Men must hold each other accountable, promoting a cultural shift towards equity and non-violence. Men as protectors and preservers of life can play a pivotal role in reducing gender-based violence by promoting accountability, respect, and empathy. Through collective effort and cultural shift, men can champion women’s empowerment, challenge toxic norms, and foster a society that values and safeguards the dignity of all.

This new wind of change is championed by 31 Kings leading the charge amplified by Ford Foundation and Voice of Women Empowerment Foundation.

By Ejiro Umukoro

By admin , in Ignite Inside stories , at May 1, 2025

CJID Hosts First West Africa Journalism Innovation Conference

Editorial Thrust by Lady Ejiro Umukoro.

As audiences evolve and adapt to what, why, and how they consume news, this raises the bar for journalists on the need to adopt a new style of reportage: constructive journalism. Research shows people want fresh social stories. Not only gloom and doom.

As such, the lingering emotions a reader should have after reading a news article or investigative report should not be pity. They are not victims but people with complicated lives.

This therefore requires that journalists amd media owners constantly seek stories about hero’s, survival, a vigilante who came to the rescue, what state authorities are doing to prevent reoccurrence, survival mechanism adopted, how they are rehabilitating themselves, and much more. Readers want to consume stories like these, too.*

GENDER ANGLE:
While 92% of men and 8% of women are reported on by journalists and the media, yet more than 40% of those affected as victims, persons displaced, etc., are women.

This implies there aren’t a lot of women reporting on conflicts as it is often seen, assumed, or considered not safe and easy for women. Editors, thus, influence how voices of women are reported by when they prevent female journalists from covering these. Conservatism in the newsroom is now a barrier on open mindedness that needs to be removed.

It has now become imperative, therefore, that the media and journalists alike must become deliberate and intentional in including women voices in report for equal representation.

By admin , in Ignite iThink! , at August 10, 2023