Somalia: How an All-Women Newsroom is Rewriting Somalia's Media Landscape, One Story at a Time

Somalia: How an All-Women Newsroom is Rewriting Somalia's Media Landscape, One Story at a Time

MOGADISHU -- In a studio where the hum of broadcast equipment mixes with focused conversation, the team at Bilan Media prepares for a live talk show. Journalists adjust cameras, an audience settles in, and panelists--a digital rights activist, a ministry official, a psychologist--review their notes. This is the operational heart of Somalia's first and only all-women newsroom, and during the recent 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violenc…