The data analysis for GMMP 2005 was carried out by the Media Monitoring Project
(MMP), South Africa.
Report.
Global Media Monitoring 2005
Who Makes the News?
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the most
extensive global research of gender in news media ever undertaken. When the
first GMMP was conducted in 1995, few of those involved could have imagined that it would
develop in the way that it went on to do. Ten years later, with the third such
project now complete, the enormous significance of this international initiative
is clear.
The importance of media monitoring as a tool for change was
officially recognised by the United Nations for the first time in Section J of
the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where NGOs and professional media
associations are urged to ‘encourage the establishment of media watch groups
that can monitor the media and consult with the media to ensure that women’s
needs and concerns are properly reflected’.
The third GMMP has been as challenging and exciting as
those that went before it. Seventy-six countries took part in GMMP 2005
with hundreds of monitors coding almost 13,000 news stories on television, radio
and in print. Participants came from a wide range of organizations and included
gender and media activists, grassroots communication groups, academics and
students of communication, media professionals, journalists’ associations,
alternative media networks and church groups.
GMMP 2005 saw much greater participation from Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet states than ever before, alongside those countries
from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Africa, Asia,
the Middle East and the Pacific which have been involved in GMMP since its
inception.
Download the full version of the Global Report 2005,
by Margaret Gallagher, author of the report and GMMP 2005 consultant
Global
Report 2005.pdf 3.89 MB
To obtain this information in a more condensed format, please
read the Top Ten Highlights or the Executive Summary 2005
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