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Media Release: Quote This Woman+ calls for better language around 16 Days Activism campaigns

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Media Release: Quote This Woman+ calls for better language around 16 Days Activism campaigns

26 November 2025: Quote This Woman+ (QW+), an African feminist non-profit working to build a gender-just media, has released an open letter calling on government, international NGOs, academics, media professionals and civil society to choose their words with care during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence campaign. The open letter challenges the linguistic … Read more

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Gen AI Can’t Replace your Voice as a Media Expert, but it Can Help

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Gen AI Can’t Replace your Voice as a Media Expert, but it Can Help

This article is based on a media training session that the Nigerian Newspaper Prime Progress conducted, together with QW+, for new QW+ experts from Nigeria. You can access a link to the entire training here. Anybody who uses generative AI in their daily life might feel the temptation to turn to Large Language Learning Models … Read more

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How Experts Use Their Voices During 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence

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How Experts Use Their Voices During 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence

The 16 Days of Activism period brings an annual spike in media interest around gendered violence. Journalists look for experts who can help explain the violence and offer practical ways forward. For our QW+ community of researchers, economists, psychologists, lawyers and activists, this is our moment to be the steady, clarifying voice that guides the … Read more

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How to write a press release

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How to write a press release

Journalists get a lot of press releases – and this sums up how most of them feel about it: “For decades I started my mornings weeding through the press releases in my inbox, one finger hovering over the ‘delete’ key and ready to strike.” Neil Hayes, writing here: Journalists’ Advice on How to Write Press … Read more

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Quote This Woman+ announces the successful completion of its inaugural Voices Fellowship Programme

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Quote This Woman+ announces the successful completion of its inaugural Voices Fellowship Programme

Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal – Quote This Woman+ (QW+), a South African non-profit organisation dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in the media, today announces the successful completion of its first South Africa Voices Fellowship Programme.  The programme, which ran from December 2024 to June 2025, took a group of dedicated women+ and LGBTQI+ activists from marginalised, rural, … Read more

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Five tips for reporting and advocating against sexual violence

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Five tips for reporting and advocating against sexual violence

South African news headlines have been reflecting a growing outrage over the rape of a seven year old child in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. This story has been uppermost in many of our minds as we’ve seen the child’s name; their school’s name; their mother’s identity; and the name of a man accused of her rape … Read more

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Quote This Woman+ receives grant from the African Women’s Development Fund to amplify marginalised voices in African media

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Quote This Woman+ receives grant from the African Women’s Development Fund to amplify marginalised voices in African media

Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal – Quote This Woman+ (QW+), a feminist non-profit organisation, has been awarded a grant from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) to enhance the visibility of marginalised African women+ voices in the media. The grant marks a significant step in QW+’s commitment to advancing gender equality in the media and amplifying the voices … Read more

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The Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) Strongly Supports Daily Maverick’s Call to Action Around Journalism Emergency

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The Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) Strongly Supports Daily Maverick’s Call to Action Around Journalism Emergency

The AIP strongly supports Daily Maverick’s shutdown to highlight the emergency in journalism across the globe and in South Africa’s cities, small towns, townships, and rural areas. 

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Twelve new Women+ Voices Of 2022 recognised in new Quote This Woman+ awards to recognise women+ voices gaining the media spotlight

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Twelve new Women+ Voices Of 2022 recognised in new Quote This Woman+ awards to recognise women+ voices gaining the media spotlight

Quote This Woman+ announces winners of the 2022 Voices of the Year award.

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