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Where are we? Red buses and phone boxes and funny looking taxis: it has to be London.

Sheila George (WACC Media Relations Coordinator) and Myriam Horngren (Advocacy and Network Coordinator) consult on the set up before the 9.30 Press Conference

Sheila George acts as MC for the Press Conference where the results of the Who Makes the News? 2005 Report were unveiled

Anna Turley presents the WACC Women's Programme, the GMMP project and the Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the News Media.

Press Conference Panel, from left to right Anna Turley (WACC Women's Programme Coordinator), Margaret Gallagher (Author, Who Makes the News? 2005 Report), Loveness Jambaya (Zimbabwe GMMP National Coordinator - Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe, GEMSA Representative), Muhammed Jahangir (Bangladesh GMMP National Coordinator, Centre for
Development Communication)

Margaret Gallagher presenting the findings of the Who Makes the News? 2005 report at the Press conference

Press Conference room

Loveness Jambaya and Muhammed Jahangir share their experiences of the media monitoring day that took place on 16th February 2005.

BBC reporter asks questions to Margaret Gallagher, the author of Who Makes the News Report during the press conference.

WACC staff getting ready for the second event: The Commission on Who Makes the News. Not much use if we all talk at the same time! Must have been the nerves...

Myriam Horngren has a few minutes to brief Chair of the commission, Jon Snow (TV Channel 4 prime time News Presenter)

Stefania Milan from Stanhope Centre prepares to blog the event live

Jenny Richards, from Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) presents "Where are the women?", a short film about 4 French women journalists discussing gender representation in the media in 2000. Five years on GMMP 2005 shows that not much has changed. The perfect start to a heated debate.

Randy Naylor, WACC General Secretary, introduces the commission and the Chair.

Full panel, from left to right: Stephen Pritchard (The Observer), Bob Jobbins (Rory Peck Trust), Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4 News), Ferial Haffajee (Mail and Guardian), Lesley Abdela (Sehvolution), Jon Snow (Chair - Channel 4 News), Agnes Callamard (Wintess - Article 19).

Jon Snow, the Chair, also well known for his somewhat rather unusual ties....

This is Ferial Haffajee (Chief Editor Mail & Guardian South Africa) and not Yosri Fouda as the name plate might suggest.

Lindsey Hilsum (International News Editor, Channel 4 News)

Stephen Pritchard (Board Member of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen and Readers' Editors for the Observer)

Lesley Abdela MBE (Shevolution)

Bob Jobbins OBE (former Head of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs and Chairman of the Rory Peck Trust)

First (and therefore very courageous) witness: Agn�s Callamard from Article 19. Her testimony definitely raised the temperature in the debate right from the start.

Nearly the full panel, from left to right: Stephen Pritchard, Bob JobbinsOBE, Lindsey Hilsum, and Ferial Haffajee

Lesley Abdela and Jon Snow are grappling with the issues

Dafna Lemish, University of Tel Aviv, steps in as the WACC witness. She talks fast, but to the point

A full room and yes, the majority there are definitely women

Mindy Ran, witness from the International Federation of Journalists, tells it like it is for women in the newsroom

Gita Sahgal, Amnesty International, shows what impact the media has on a very tangible issue: the reporting (or absence) of gender based violence

Questions from the floor: Marcelle D'Argy Smith (ex-editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine): has feminism failed women?

Jo Salter (Women's Speaker) was loudly applauded as she introduced herself as the UK first fighter pilot. However when she got pregnant the headline of the most popular tabloid read: "From Top Gun to Top Bun!"