Tag: “what gets measured gets done”

What do three years of data on the gender gap in news reporting tell us?

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October 28th, 2021

The 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 is fraught. But here’s one that journalists need to pay attention to: Since March 2020, news media have devoted a lot more time and space […]

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It’s not radical to expect political parties to field as many women candidates as men

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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 one commented, because six years on, it’s become the default for the federal Liberals. That’s good news for the roughly 50 percent of the population […]

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Running to catch the light — and creating the “Transformational 20s”

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January 9th, 2020

Is 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 side of the world threaten war, I feel with greater urgency than ever that change can’t happen quickly enough. My partner would tell you that […]

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Cry if you want to: Anatomy of a 15-minute high-stakes keynote

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December 11th, 2019

I 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 global leadership conference hosted by the International Women’s Forum. The IWF’s 1100-plus attendees were assembled in a cavernous Toronto hotel ballroom featuring massive screens designed […]

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Featuring more female sources could increase your audience engagement, research suggests

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April 30th, 2019

This 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 research, Hollywood sales data and anecdotal evidence from the news industry itself all suggest it’s worth a try. In many western democracies — the United […]

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In numbers there is strength – how big data can help close the gender gap in Canadian journalism

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February 11th, 2019

This 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 hack democracy. But some scientists are hunched over their computers in an effort to harness the power of big data analytics for social good. A […]

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Relentless change-maker Nobina Robinson: more than 3 dozen op eds in 6 years

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October 19th, 2018

You 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 Compelling Commentary workshops in 2012. Since then, she’s authored or co-authored more than three dozen op eds. Her commentary has been published in a wide […]

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