Global Media Monitoring Project

From 1995, studies by the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), an undertaking of the World Association of Christian Communication, have demonstrated that female journalists are more likely than male journalists to be assigned stories with soft news topics. Although GMMP’s 2020 report shows that female journalists are assigned a more…

Studies by the Global Media Monitoring Project, begun in 1995, found women reporters more likely to be assigned soft-news stories about entertainment, arts, and culture. Such stories were also more likely to feature women in traditional, rather than professional, roles. Beginning in the late 1990s, media critics and…