Who makes the news?

9:00 - 9:50 Registration & Coffee /Tea

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome - 30 years with the Beijing Platform for Action

• Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir & Maria Edström

10:10 - 10:30 Global trends for gender equality in the news

• Rod Molina and Sarah Macharia WACC/GMMP

10:30-11:10 Nordic time trends on gender equality in the News Media

• Hanne Jørndrup, University of Roskilde
• Jonita Siivonen, University of Helsinki
• Sika Brandt Wille, University of Greenland
• Finnborg Salome Steinþórsdóttir, University of Iceland
• Elisabeth Eide, Oslo Met University
• Agneta Söderberg Jacobson, Linnaeus University

11:10 - 11:30 The importance of sex-disaggregated data: Making news media matter. The GEM-dataset,

• Monika Djerf Pierre, University of Gothenburg
•  Mathias Färdigh, University of Gothenburg

11:30 - 12:00 Gender equality in the Nordic media board rooms & management

• Ulrika Facht, Media Analyst, Nordicom

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 13:30 Missing perspectives that matter. Take aways from BEIJING+30

• Luba Kassova, AKAS, University of Westminster, UK
• Claudia Padovani, Univ. of Padova, Rewriting the story, UniTWIN

13:30 - 14:15 Panel discussion with editors and journalists

• Andrea Christiansen, KNR, Greenland
• Erla Björg Gunnarsdóttir, former editor, Sýn news, Iceland
• Charlotte Harder Nielsen, Watch Medier, Denmark
• Mari Skurdal, Klassekampen, Norway
• Maria Brändström, SVT, Sweden
• Märta Nummenmaa, Yle, Finland
• Moderator Suzanne Moll

14:15 - 15:00 Sharing good practice in the Nordic countries and elsewhere

• Young feminist journalist perspectives. Danish journalists Camille Landberger, Line Schmidt Mouridsen & Sofia Kloch
• Raising journalist attention and awareness: Gender based violence: Nina Ljungberg, press secretary Unizon and Claudia Backholm, Digital communicator, Unizon
• How to increase women’s voices: Mateja Malnar Štembal from the organization, Onave, Slovenia  
• Creating a network of women’s expert databases in Europe: Luisella Seveso, Italian journalist
• How to address journalists psychological stress: Shazia Majid op-ed columnist at Verdens Gang, Norway.
• Collective Power for Equality, Freyja Steingrímsdóttir, Secretary General of the Icelandic Union of Journalists and the Nordic Federation of Journalists (NJF)
• The manosphere and digital sexism: Maia Lorentzen, researcher and activist at Cybernauterne
• AKAS News Media Misogyny Coverage Tracker:  Luba Kassova, AKAS, University of Westminster, UK 

15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE

15:30 - 16:15 National discussions to move forward - how to address and implement change

• Round tables

16:15 - 17:00 Gender equality as a way to expand freedom of expression

• Open discussion

17:00 - 18:30 Goodbye reception 

The Nordic summit will be held at Klub.

Adress:

KLUB
Linnésgade 25
Copenhagen.

Station/Metro:

Nørreport.
It takes about 18 minutes by Metro from the airport to Nørreport and about 6 minutes by Metro from the Copenhagen train station to Nørreport.

Accommodation:

We recommend Hotel Kong Arthur or its sister hotel Ibsens, both within a short walk from the conference venue Klub.

Address:

Hotel Kong Arthur
Nørre Søgade 11.
(There is also an entrance from Vendersgade).

Ibsens Hotel
Vendersgade 23

Organisers: 

University of Iceland, together with Helsinki University, University of Greenland, Linné University, Oslo Met University & Roskilde University.

Head of the conference is Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir, vaj@hi.is

Project leader is Maria Edström, maria.edstrom@gmail.com

Main funder: Nordic Council of Ministers

Other sponsors:

Nordicom

The Icelandic Union of Journalists

UNESCO UNITWIN Network on Gender, Media and ICTs 

Information about speakers and volunteers:  List in alphabetical order by given name.

Agneta Söderberg Jacobson,  is head of the Knowledge unit at Fojo Media Institute, Linnaeus University. She has a particular focus on equality issues and diversity in the media. She is the national Coordinator for the Swedish GMMP2025-report.

Andrea Christiansen, is a journalist at KNR, Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation.She is an editor for two radio programs and has also acted as a functioning leader. Throughout her career at the national broadcasting station, she has worked across multiple platforms—radio, television, web, and news broadcasting—with nine years dedicated to radio.

Camille Landberger, journalist who graduated from RUC, Denmark in 2024 

Charlotte Harder Nielsen, is editor at ShippingWatch, part of Watch Medier, Denmark. She has a background in journalism and communications For many years she served as editor, correspondent and reporter at DR, Danish public service corporation. She has also worked at TV2, Berlingske and Ritzaus Bureau.

Clara Bergenlöv is a journalism student from the University of Gothenburg currently doing her internship at Hallands Nyheter. She is a volunteer at the Nordic summit.

Claudia Backholm, Digital Communication Officer, Unizon - which brings together over 140 non-profit women's shelters and young women empowerment centres in Sweden

Claudia Padovani, is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Padova (Università di Padova), focusing on global communication, gender equality in media, communication rights, and digital policy, actively involved with UNESCO and international research networks.

Erla Björg Gunnarsdóttir, is Editor-in-Chief of the Sýn Newsroom, the largest private  media in Iceland where news is broadcast on radio, television and on the web.

Elisabeth Eide, is Professor Emerita at Oslo Met University, Her research projects involve Media and climate change, Media and marginalization (including gender), Afghanistan and media, Conflict- and peace journalism. She is the National Coordinator for the Norwegian GMMP-report 2025.

Finnborg Salome Steinþórsdóttir, University of Iceland, is an assistant professor in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming in government and public organisations, as well as the advancement of equality within organisations. She has coordinated, in collaboration with Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir, the Gender Media Monitoring Project in Iceland since 2020. 

Freyja Steingrímsdottir, Secretary General of the Icelandic Union of Journalists and the Nordic Federation of Journalists (NJF)

Hanne Jørndrup, PhD, Associate professor, University of Roskilde. She is the national coordinator for the Danish GMMP2025-report.

Jonita Siivonen, PhD, Senior lecturer, Swedish school of social Science, University of Helsinki. She has been  the National Coordinator for the Finnish GMMP-report 2025 and has been involved in GMMP since 1995.

Joy Léonie Sung Lundgreen is a journalism student from Roskilde university. She is a volunteer at the Nordic summit.

Laura Jones is a journalism student from Roskilde university. She is a volunteer at the Nordic summit.

Line Schmidt Mouridsen, journalist who graduated from RUC, Denmark, in 2024. 

Luba Kassova, is an award-winning evidence-based storyteller, a researcher, journalist and audience strategist, having co-founded AKAS, an international audience strategy consultancy. She has an academic background in sociology, European studies, and behavioural science. Currently she is compiling her Missing Perspectives of Women-reports into a PhD.  

Luisella Seveso, Italian journalist. Member of the association GiULiA journalists, co-founder of 100esperte and Enwe projects.

Maia Kahlke Lorenzen, is a researcher at Cybernauterne, Denmark, and specializes in digital culture and digital harassment. She has followed the manosphere and the anti-LGBT movement for many years and is an experienced trainer and speaker. 

Malín Marta Eyfjörð Ægisdóttir is a journalism student from University of Reykjavik. She is a volunteer at the Nordic summit.

Mari Skurdal, Editor in chief for the newspaper Klassekampen, Norway since 2018. Skurdal was honoured as Editor of the year 2022 by Oslo Redaktørforening (the Oslo Association of Editors)

Maria Brändström, Editor SVT Umeå, Sweden (Public service television)

Maria Edström, PhD, Associate Professor in journalism, affiliated to JMG, University of Gothenburg. She has been involved in the Swedish GMMP-reports since 2000 and also in various other gender and media projects. Project leader for the conference. 

Martine Bentsen, PhD, Lecturer , Department of Communication and Humanities, Roskilde university. She worked together with Hanne Jørndrup on the Danish GMMP2025-report.

Mateja Malnar Štembal, President and co-founder of ONA VE (She Knows), a Slovenian association promoting the visibility of women experts and gender equality in media and public life. She is a historian and an experienced communication professional with over 20 years of work
across public, private, and non-profit sectors. She leads national and EU projects focused on media representation and women’s empowerment.

Mathias A. Färdigh, PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication and Lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) and Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute (QoG), Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. He recently updated  the The GEM dataset and GEM-Index with the 2025 GMMP data.

Mia Jonsson Lindell is communication officer at Nordicom

Michelle Lindell Ojala is a journalism student from University of Helsinki. She is a volunteer at the Nordic summit.

Monika Djerf-Pierre is Professor emerita at the University of Gothenburg, involved in several gender and media research projects, among others The GEM project, dataset and GEM-Index that seeks to examine the qualities, causes and consequences of gender (in)equality in and through the news media.

Märta Nummenmaa is editor at Swedish Yle, Finland

Nina Ljungberg, Press Secretary, Unizon - which brings together over 140 non-profit women's shelters and young women empowerment centres in Sweden 

Rod Molina; Global Coordinator for WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project 2025 (GMMP). The Chilean–Canadian social sciences researcher and practitioner has been engaged in gender justice and gender equality work since 2010, most recently with a focus on gender and masculinities issues. 

Sarah Macharia, is former Gender and Communication Consultant at WACC since 2007. Of Kenyan origin, she is a feminist political economist with a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Toronto, Canada. She has extensive work experience in the field of gender and human development having worked with various African civil society and international development organisations. 

Sika Brandt Wille, Head of the Department of Journalism, University of Greenland.

Shazia Majid is an op-ed columnist at Verldens Gang, VG, Norway’s largest daily newspaper. She used to be a senior investigative reporter at VG and has won the SKUP Award for excellence in investigative journalism in both 2017 and 2018. During 2021 she was a research fellow at Reuters Institute in Oxford, focused on representation of ethnic minority women in Norwegian news

Sofia Kloch is a journalist who graduated from RUC in 2024.

Suzanne Moll is a media expert, trainer and coach with a background as journalist, editor and editor in chief in various newsrooms in Denmark. She is currently a member of the Danish National Commission for UNESCO and has several other international tasks.

Ulrika Facht, Media Analyst, Nordicom has extensive knowledge of the media, their structure, function and audience. She is editor for the publication MedieSverige (a current overview of the media landscape in Sweden). Also works with the Mediebarometer survey (about the population's media use) and the annual report Mediernas ekonomi (the state of the Swedish press, radio and tv).

Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir, University of Iceland, is an associate professor at the faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland and head of the Journalism program. Her research focus is journalism, media systems and audience studies. Before joining the academia Valgerður worked as a journalist for many years, in print and broadcasting. She is the national coordinator for the Icelandic GMMP-report 2025 and the head of the Nordic summit Who make the news.

The Global Media Monitoring Project is is the longest-running and most comprehensive study of the role and representation of women and men in the worlds news media. It is also the largest advocacy initiative in the world on changing the representation of women in the media, involving  grassroots community organizations,  media practitioners,  students and researchers, all of whom participate on a voluntary basis.

The GMMP study was first conducted in 71 countries in 1995 and has been repeated every five years since. The first findings were presented at Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. The Beijing Platform for Action called for women’s equal participation in and through the media and for an end to gender stereotypes.

In the  latest edition of the research – the 7th – 94 countries took part and it took place on 6 May 1995.  Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden all took part in 2025. The global report about findings was launched on December 9th 2025.

 

GMMP 2025 Global report

Sweden – national report (in Swedish)

Reports from Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway will be accessible here as soon as they have been published.