The Who Makes the News? Take Action Pack was created to encourage and support media and or/gender activists to get involved in the Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and Media.

The Action Pack is split into seven sections:

Section 2 gives some background on the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005 (the monitoring and campaigning phases combined). You can use this information in your own activities to present what the Who Makes the News? Campaign is about and what GMMP 2005 is.

Section 3 is specifically concerned with the Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media campaign. Highlighting the key issues that the campaign aims to address, it also explains what will happen when, where and why. Again we hope this is useful information for you to have when promoting your own activities as an individual or as an organisation or when trying to get others involved.

Section 4 provides various ideas, suggestions and tips on how you can get involved throughout the campaign, either online through our lists and website or by organising activities of your own. There are many ways you can get involved from sending a simple email to organising a fully-fledged media roundtable. The ideas in Section 4 are only a guide to how you might get involved and we would very much welcome any further suggestions that you think could be included to this Take Action Pack.

Section 5 provides key resource materials in the form of international agreements on gender issues that you might find useful either as general background information or when talking to your target audiences.

Section 6 is a pre-formatted press release providing key information regarding the Who Makes the News? Campaign. We also include an example of what such a press release might look like once linked to local activities and how you can adapt the press release for your own use.

Section 7 lists all the organizations that participated in GMMP 2005, many of which will also be participating in the Who Makes the News? Campaign.

We strongly recommend that you refer to the WACC Gender and Media Advocacy Toolkit which will be available on http://www.whomakesthenews.org in addition to this Take Action Pack. The toolkit contains ‘how-to’ examples, suggestions and recommendations on advocacy work on gender and the media. You will find tips on talking to the media, raising awareness on the issues, targeting the right audiences, etc… We have highlighted the specific areas where we think the toolkit is most useful. Additionally, if you are new to the issues or need a refresher, the WACC Gender and Media Advocacy Toolkit will take you through the basics of some of the key gender issues worldwide, the discourse on the role and nature of the media and the links between the two.

Welcome to the Who Makes the News? Campaign! We sincerely hope you will find this Take Action Pack useful and we are very much looking forward to engaging with you during the Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media.

The Who Makes the News? Take Action Pack will be available in PDF or Microsoft Word format from our website: http://www.whomakesthenews.org. If you are willing to translate any of the following materials into a different language, please contact WACC at info@waccglobal.org.

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