Leadership, measures and accountability

Without a conscious leadership there will be no gender equality in the news rooms. That was one of the conclusions of the first panels at the IWMF conference.

But the panel also made visual proof of the distant positions of female editors. From the Peru's Silvia Miró Quesada from El Commercio who preferred to talk about "meritocracy rather than democracy" to German Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl from Die Tageszeitung, who believed in firm quotas on all levels. " In Die Tageszeitung there has to be a women on the front page every day. " It is possible" says Ines Pohl.

In the picture the morning panel: Jennifer McGuire, Canada CBC Editor-in-Chief, Ines Pohl, Germany, Editor-in-Chief, Die Tageszeitung, Carolyn M Byerly, princial investigator , Katty Kay, BBC World News, Barbara Kaija, Uganda, Editor-in-Chief, the New Vision, Silvia Miró Quesada Peru, Editorial consulting council El Commercio and Kjersti Sortland, Norway, Managing editor, Verdens Gang.

Link to the full conversation