VIDEO: Gabriela Torres ‘What Makes Women Click’

With over 20 year experience of journalism in television, radio, print, online and social media production across two continents and five countries, Gabriela Torres is currently BBC World Service Social Media Women Engagement champion.

As part of BBC Digital Development team, she has lead innovative projects focusing on engagement, audience growth and newsroom workflows providing relevant teams with the tools to design their own strategies.

One key part of her work is to increase engagement of female audiences across all 40 BBC World Service Languages.

As women are a main drivers of traffic and promoters of a brand, Gabriela has developed and implemented systems and processes to ensure performances in relation female traffic is monitored and analysed on weekly and monthly basis so newsrooms can make informed decision when commissioning stories with female audiences in mind.

Listen to her project presentation at AWiM18 on how she did this.

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DR. YEMISI AKINBOBOLA

C.E.O & Co-founder, AWiM

Dr Yemisi Akinbobola is an award-winning journalist, academic, consultant and co-founder of African Women in Media (AWiM). AWiM’s vision is that one-day African women will have equal access to representation in media. Joint winner of the CNN African Journalist Award 2016 (Sports Reporting), Yemisi ran her news website IQ4News between 2010-14.
Yemisi holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Birmingham City University, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She has published scholarly research on women’s rights, African feminism, and journalism and digital public spheres. She was Editorial Consultant for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 commemorative book titled “She Stands for Peace: 20 Years, 20 Journeys”, and currently hosts the book’s podcast.
She speaks regularly on issues relating to gender and media. In 2021 she was recognized as one of 100 Most Influential African Women.