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October 28th, 2021The following op ed, co-authored with Prashanth Rao and Dr. Maite Taboada, appeared on Poynter‘s website on 28 October 2021. Looking for silver linings in the midst of a pandemic […]
read more...What do three years of data on the gender gap in news reporting tell us?Diversity Belonging + Inclusion
March 10th, 2021(Originally published in The Hill Times 15 February 2021) When Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet in January, he retained the gender balance that earned him headlines back in 2015. No […]
read more...It’s not radical to expect political parties to field as many women candidates as menDiversity Belonging + Inclusion
February 10th, 2021Do you think journalists should be compelled to quote women as often as they quote men? The proposition sounded a bit radical, even to me, back in 2014 when Edelman […]
read more...Should journalists quote women as often as men?Our Advocacy Work
May 12th, 2020Is it possible to eat your weight in popcorn? I appear to be trying. The pandemic lock-down has also given me permission to double my chocolate intake, consume cookies at […]
read more...How to Cope with the Coronavirus ShutdownOur Advocacy Work
January 9th, 2020Is patience still a virtue? When teaching kids, or walking behind those forced by age or disability to slow down, absolutely. But as Australia burns, and bellicose men on either […]
read more...Running to catch the light — and creating the “Transformational 20s”Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
December 11th, 2019I don’t recommend crying on stage if you can avoid it. So I didn’t. But I wanted to. Last month, I got to deliver a 15-minute TED-style talk to a […]
read more...Cry if you want to: Anatomy of a 15-minute high-stakes keynoteOur Advocacy Work
April 30th, 2019This article was originally published on Poynter What would happen if news media struggling to survive applied the productivity mantra “What gets measured gets done” to the sources they quote? Business […]
read more...Featuring more female sources could increase your audience engagement, research suggestsOur Advocacy Work
February 11th, 2019This article was originally published in The Ottawa Citizen We hear a lot these days about how artificial intelligence is taking away jobs and making it easy for foreign powers to […]
read more...In numbers there is strength – how big data can help close the gender gap in Canadian journalismImprove your Writing
October 19th, 2018You may not recognize her name, but chances are high that you’ve been influenced – if only indirectly – by her informed opinions. Nobina Robinson attended one of our Writing […]
read more...Relentless change-maker Nobina Robinson: more than 3 dozen op eds in 6 yearsBlog Post and Our Advocacy Work
April 27th, 2018We recently surveyed hundreds of women who’ve participated in our workshops and remained on our mailing list. Email overflow and work-life demands being what they are, we were happy to […]
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