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Colombian journalist Catalina Gomez has been living in Tehran since 2007. She first came to Iran driven by her fascination with the Middle East. Her main specialization is reporting frommilitary conflicts across the region. Gomez also covered several presidential elections in Iran as well as the mass protests during Iran’s Green Movement in 2009. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the journalist began traveling regularly to the front line to report and has periodically lived in Kyiv.

On the first day of the U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran, Gomez was leaving Ukraine and waitingfor her passport in Poland. After receiving her documents, she flew to Turkey, which shares a long land border with Iran. From there, she entered Iran by car and reached Tehran on the third day of the war.

In Tehran, Gomez witnessed people living in constant fear. Numerous strikes targeting military bases, policeforces, paramilitary groups, and facilities connected to Iran’s nuclear program were also affecting ordinary residential neighborhoods. Military commanders and people associated with the regime were also being targeted, while no one trulyknew who their neighbors were or what was happening in the building next door. Iranians received almost no guidance on how to behave during attacks, including drone strikes.

As a result, Catalina Gomez found herself explaining what drones sound like, what dangers they pose, and how people could protect themselves and their loved ones during drone attacks. She even wrote on social media that this was the very nightmare Ukrainians have been living through since the start of the full-scale invasion — including because of Iranian-made Shahed drones.

Journalist Angelina Kariakina speaks with Catalina Gomez about the lives of ordinary Iranians during the current war, changing public moods, perceptions of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, attitudes toward Donald Trump, women appearing without hijabs and jogging in leggings, the current state of Iran’s nuclear program, and the drone industry linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Colombian journalist Catalina Gomez has been living in Tehran since 2007. She first came to Iran driven by her fascination with the Middle East. Her main specialization is reporting frommilitary conflicts across the region. Gomez also covered several presidential elections in Iran as well as the mass protests during Iran’s Green Movement in 2009. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the journalist began traveling regularly to the front line to report and has periodically lived in Kyiv.

On the first day of the U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran, Gomez was leaving Ukraine and waitingfor her passport in Poland. After receiving her documents, she flew to Turkey, which shares a long land border with Iran. From there, she entered Iran by car and reached Tehran on the third day of the war.

In Tehran, Gomez witnessed people living in constant fear. Numerous strikes targeting military bases, police forces, paramilitary groups, and facilities connected to Iran’s nuclear program were also affecting ordinary residential neighborhoods. Military commanders and people associated with the regime were also being targeted, while no one trulyknew who their neighbors were or what was happening in the building next door. Iranians received almost no guidance on how to behave during attacks, includingdrone strikes.

As a result, Catalina Gomez found herself explaining what drones sound like, what dangers they pose, and how people could protect themselves and their loved ones during drone attacks. She even wrote on social media that this was the very nightmare Ukrainians have been living through since the start of the full-scale invasion — including because of Iranian-made Shahed drones.

Journalist Angelina Kariakina speaks with Catalina Gomez about the lives of ordinary Iranians during the currentwar, changing public moods, perceptions of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, attitudes toward Donald Trump, women appearing without hijabs and jogging in leggings, the current state of Iran’s nuclear program, and the drone industry linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Висвітлення в медіа насильства та мізогінії щодо жінок перебуває на найнижчому рівні за останні дев’ять років. Торік лише 1,3% онлайн-матеріалів у світі розкривали ці теми. Такі результати дослідження оприлюднила міжнародна консалтингова компанія з питань стратегії роботи з аудиторією AKAS. Фахівці проаналізувала понад один мільярд онлайн-публікацій з 2017 року. Найбільше матеріалів стосовно насильства та мізогінії світ читав та дивився у 2018 році — через рух Me Too він ставпіковим моментом для висвітлення цієї теми. Однак навіть тоді лише 2,2% усіх матеріалів в онлайні стосувалися насильства проти жінок.

Дослідниця та журналістка Люба Кассова розповіла, що вонинамагалися дослідити, чи існує зв’язок між рівнем насилля проти жінок у країні та рівнем медійного висвітлення цієї теми. Фахівці очікували побачити прямузалежність — чим вищий рівень насилля, тим більше про це пишуть медіа. Однак жодного такого зв’язку вони не виявили.

Журналістка Ангеліна Карякіна говорить із Любою Кассовою про зміщення фокусу уваги у висвітленні в медіа справи Епштейна, шкоду сенсаційної подачі такої теми, «нордичний парадокс» та ігнорування голосу жінкив матеріалах про мізогінію та насильства щодо них. 

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Coverage of violence and misogyny against women in themedia has fallen to its lowest level in the past nine years. Last year, only 1.3% of online content worldwide addressed these issues. These findings were published by the international audience strategy consultancy AKAS. Researchersanalyzed more than one billion online publications dating back to 2017. The largest volume of coverage on violence and misogyny came in 2018, when the Me Too movement became a peak moment for media attention to the issue. Yet even then, only 2.2% of all online content focused onviolence against women.

Researcher and journalist Luba Kassova said the team soughtto determine whether there was a link between the level of violence against women in a country and the amount of media coverage devoted to the issue. The researchers expected to find a direct correlation — the higher the level of violence, the more media attention it would receive. However, they found no such connection.

Journalist Angelina Kariakina speaks with Luba Kassovaabout the shifting media focus in coverage of the Epstein case, the harm caused by sensationalist reporting on violence against women, the “Nordic paradox,” and the sidelining of women’s voices in stories about misogyny and violenceagainst them.

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