In the spirit of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month throughout March, we are taking a moment to name what a media landscape that works for everyone must actually look like, and what it will take to build it.
Fostering Safe Inclusive, and Reliable Digital Media Spaces in WANA
Following RNW Media & Meza Yetu’s research on Anti-Gender narratives in Kenya, this toolkit provides a structured design framework for crafting counter-narratives that are grounded in evidence, culturally fluent, and emotionally aware.
Following RNW Media & Meza Yetu’s research on Anti-Gender narratives in Kenya, this toolkit provides a structured design framework for crafting counter-narratives that are grounded in evidence, culturally fluent, and emotionally aware. Recognising the complexity of the digital landscape, it guides users in developing interventions that are ethically responsible, structurally anticipatory, and sensitive to platform dynamics, audience segmentation, and narrative fatigue. It has been designed to guide advocates to build long-term narrative infrastructure that protects the dignity of feminist and queer movements.
This research examines how anti-gender narratives function within Kenya’s digital media spaces. It surfaces dominant narratives and details the ways in which these narratives spread including emotion, format, trigger moments, actor networks, transnational logic and many more.
Why a remark from American journalist Chris Hedges offered a perfect (yet grim) lens for me to understand what’s going on in our world today.
In this Digital Media Shakers edition, we speak with Zahra Nader, an Afghan-Canadian journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Zan Times. Launched in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, Zan Times is a women-led investigative newsroom that documents the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.
At RNW Media, our mission is to ensure people have access to safe, reliable, and inclusive information. But let’s be real: even for the professionals, the 2026 news cycle can feel like a fever dream.
As an international media development organisation dedicated to strengthening independent and public-interest media and committed to building safe, inclusive and trustworthy online spaces, we are deeply concerned by the misuse of artificial intelligence to create and circulate explicit imagery. As reflected in recent reports about AI-generated deepfake images shared online
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