Online violence against female journalists – ways to keep your staff safe in a virtual world
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Online violence against female journalists is one of the most pressing threats to media freedom worldwide. This webinar, which takes place from 14:30-15:30 CET on 6 March, will address the heightened risks female journalists face in their work and look at some tools organizations can implement to keep their staff safe.
A new global report from the ICFJ and UNESCO reported that 73% of women journalists had faced online violence in the course of their work. ‘The Chilling’ reveals the lengths people will go to silence female voices, humiliate, stifle public interest journalism, kill women’s careers and deprive society of important voices and perspectives.
This International Women’s Week session is part of the EBU’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion activities and supports the #OurJournalistsOurFreedom campaign.
Panellists
- Florence Hainaut, freelance journalist and filmmaker
- Helena Milinkovic, President, Union of journalists Radio Television Slovenia
- Dr Julie Posetti, Co-author of The Chilling, a joint ICFJ and UNESCO report on online violence against women journalists.
- Marcel Gelauff, Co-founder and former Board member, PersVeilig, Netherlands
Welcome Address
Noel Curran, Director-General, European Broadcasting Union
Moderator
Francesca Scott, Head of Diversity Equity & Inclusion
Speakers
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Freelance journalist and filmmaker
After studying communication and journalism, she joined RTBF in 2006. She worked successively for the children's television news, radio news (presentation, reports in the field), television news, consumer programmes and finally the political programme which she presented in 2015-2016. In June 2016, she left her job and became a freelance journalist. Florence Hainaut holds a master's degree in gender studies (2017). In 2021, together with her colleague Myriam Leroy, she directed #salepute (#FatUglySlut), a documentary on misogynistic cyber violence, which was broadcast on Proximus TV, La Une (RTBF) and Arte International. The film won the silver medal at the URTI 2021 prize (International Radio and Television Union) and was nominated in the "best documentary" category at the Magritte du cinéma.
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President, Union of journalists, RTV Slovenia
Helena Milinkovic is a Foreign News Reporter and has been working for News Programme at Slovenian public broadcaster since 1999. As a journalist she specialized in reporting about human rights, minorities, migration, humanitarian and development issues. She was an anchor and editor of a weekly foreign news programme Globus, an author of few documentaries, reported from the field as video journalist. Since 2022, she's also a president of the Coordination of Journalists unions at RTV, who in May 2022 declared a strike and participated in the "rewriting" of RTV Law.
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Working Languages: English and French