Project Launch — Enhancing Online Safety for Women in Media

Join Gender Equity Victoria (GEN VIC), the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), Australian Community Managers (ACM), and a panel of experts for the launch of GEN VIC’s Enhancing Online Safety for Women in the Media project.

Women working in the media receive abuse online simply for doing their jobs and being women with an audience. This abuse can be extremely traumatic and spill over into offline violence. GEN VIC’s 2019 report Don’t Read the Comments found that women journalists needed much more support from their workplaces and publishers to prevent harassment from driving them off social media and away from journalism.

Together with the MEAA and ACM we have developed three resources targeted at media organisations to help them support their women journalists:

1. Moderation guidelines with a gender and intersectional lens.

2. Workplace support guidelines for supporting women journalists.

3. Cybersafety awareness and policy development training for HR and management in media organisations.

Moderator

• Bhakthi Puvanenthiran - Editor, ABC Everyday

Panelists

• Rosalie O'Neale - Manager, eSafety Women, Office of the eSafety Commissioner
• Karen Percy - Journalist and Co-Vice President of MEAA's media section
• Dr Julie Posetti - Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists
• Wendy Tuohy - Journalist, The Age

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This project has been generously supported by the Victorian Government's Office for Women.