Beijing + 10: Women´s Media Pool A Women´s Media Pool towards and during Beijing + 10 will contribute to share and articulate some of the media initiatives of women communicators and their organizations. It will promote information regarding the assessment and appraisal of the full spectrum of the Platform for Action and the Declaration by way of producing press releases, features for electronic networks, newspapers, reports, TV, community and commercial radio and internet during the Beijing + 10 process. The Women´s Media Pool is also open to the participation of women communicators and organizations that are not be present in New York, but can collaborate in distributing features and news to their local media and in their own networks. Such
initiative has as background and reference the Women´s Media Center Objectives of the Women´s Media for Pool Beijing + 10:
· Organize and showcase how women in media “pool” their activist, professional, technical and organizational resources to disseminate women´s voices, perspectives and issues, despite the trend to ignore the issue of women´s media and women in the media, and the diminishing of funding for such initiatives. · Support younger (or senior) media practitioners who will be in Beijing + 10 for the first time by providing a space where they can learn collectively from others and bring in their own experience.
femmediapool@yahoo.com
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