Women Do News sponsored its first edit-a-thon in 2019 in New York City with support from Take The Lead. Since then, we have trained writers and editors through coaching and events, partnering with allies at universities and journalism organizations.

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Upcoming

Past events

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  Changing the Face of NewsApril 19th, 2022

  Gather, a a collaborative project led by the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism & Communication, hosted Women Do News and The 19th for a lightning chat about women in media. Agora’s Regina Lawrence moderated a conversation with Alexandra Smith of The 19th and Women Do News board members Angilee Shah and Jareen Imam about bridging the gender gap in the journalism industry and reporting inclusively on gender, politics, and policy.

  https://youtu.be/nBrt6GoH3Sk

• AEJMC 2022 Midwinter Conference: Correcting the recordMarch 5th, 2022

  

  Board member Jareen Imam and board chair Angilee Shah led a workshop at the AEJMC 2022 Midwinter Conference. What’s AEJMC, you ask? It’s the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the organization for educators, students and media professionals who are training the next generation of journalists.

  If you are signed up for Women Do News emails, you’ll get the recorded session in your inbox.

  The 90-minuted session focused on ways to increase the representation of women journalists on Wikipedia by collaborating with Women Do News. It started a brief overview of gender bias on Wikipedia, with Wiki Edu, and explored how it contributes to the challenges women journalists face today. Then the team from Women Do News talked through the nuts and bolts of Wikipedia editing, explaining how educators and students can get involved.

• JAWS Edit-a-thon: Increasing equality of women journalists on WikipediaOctober 16th, 2021

  Biographies of female and non-binary journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, which can lead to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition. Women Do News, an organization dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of female journalists online, wants change. In this event, we showed Jaws and Women Do News conference-goers how to join the movement. We gave a 20-minute presentation on how tovolunteer and add articles into Wikipedia, followed by a 40-minute edit-a-thon. Here’s more.

• Hacks/Hacker London: ’Increasing equality of women journalists on Wikipedia’September 22nd, 2021

  Biographies of female and non-binary journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, which can lead to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition. Women Do News, an organization dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of female journalists online, wants to change that issue. Board member Jareen Imam presented.

• Citations Needed! 🔎September 15th, 2021

  

  Need help finding published articles and citations about amazing women journalists who deserve a Wikipedia page? Finding those links to published works about the journalists is one of the toughest parts of creating a Wikipedia entry that stands up to scrutiny.

  Mary Nahorniak, Google News Lab Teaching Fellow, presented to give us super tips for search and citation building. Watch the presentation here.

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