GEM Summit Report, August 2008

The third Gender and Media (GEM) Summit was held from the 11-12 August 2008 at the Kopanong Hotel, Johannesburg. The Summit was hosted by Gender Links, the Media Institute of South Africa (MISA) and the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network. The Summit brought together approximately 156, 99 female and 57 male, gender and media advocates from 15 Southern African countries and other countries including India, Kenya, Sweden and the USA.

Participants deliberated for two days on various topics that fed into the Summit theme: “Whose news, whose views, Critical consumers, responsive media”.

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Download : 1. Contents
Download : 2. Overview and programme
Download : 3. Media literacy
Download : 4. Tabloidisation of the media
Download : 5. Policy and regulation
Download : 6. Media practice and training
Download : 7. Alerts and complaints
Download : 8. Research and monitoring
Download : 9. Media activism
Download : 11. Annexures