Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 09.30,
Yellow Lecture Room, DMJX
Gender in the newsroom – bias, glass ceiling, and stereotypes”, by/ Jad Melki, asso.professor, LAU Beirut.
https://soas.lau.edu.lb/about/people/jad-melki.php
We are proud of once again being able to welcoming associate Professor Jad Melki from Lebanon to Aarhus, This time on-site!
In this lecture “Gender in the newsroom – bias, glass ceiling, and stereotypes“, Professor Melki will share insights about the role and traditions concerning men’s and women’s positions in the news media – and how this affects news flow, stereotypes and the politics in the Middle East and beyond.
He has recently published a book which also contains updated data on this Gender and Societal issue: Media Literacy of the Oppressed: An Emancipatory Pedagogy for/with the Marginalized. Routledge.
Read the intro-chapter from the book here: https://news.mediajungle.dk/files/2025/05/JadMelki-medialit-oppressed-First-chapter.pdf
Jad Melki will suggest solutions, actions and changed attitudes.
As a bonus, we will also discuss how reporters have different advantages, depending on their sex – for example in war areas, demonstrations and conflict zones.
These journal articles will prepare you for the lecture by Jad Melki:
Bonus material, more reading below here:
link to SOFJO resources: https://www.osce.org/representative-on-freedom-of-media/471903
and:
here is a link to a conference/ online seminar, from 2021, interesting content!! about the newsrooms etc.