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Annette Young
Annette Young is a senior journalist and news presenter for France 24 Television. Originally from Australia, Annette has reported from parts of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She also is the creator and host of The 51 Percent, an award-winning program about the women reshaping our world which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023. In an extensive career, she has worked for the Melbourne Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and SBS Television Australia as a reporter, producer and in newsroom management. While based in the Middle East, she became a Jerusalem correspondent for France 24.
In 2015, she was named by UN Women as one of the 20 inspirational global voices on women in the media and was awarded the gold medal in broadcast journalism for the Ricardo Ortega prize in 2018. In 2023, Annette was selected as a 'Game Changer' and a social impact finalist in the Global Australian Awards in recognition of her contribution to the field of gender journalism.
Events IJF 2025
Last year, the world watched in horror as Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men were tried in a case involving the repeated sexual assault of his then-wife, Gisele Pelicot, over the span of a decade. Wi...
Note: These are private one-on-one consultations and not a public event. You must sign up online in advance for an individual session. Are you a senior leader trying to implement large organisational...
Note: This session is a workshop in which participation is by registration only. Maximum 40 participants. You must sign up online in advance. Every day, important stories – too many to count – go...
Note: These are private one-on-one consultations and not a public event. You must sign up online in advance for an individual session. Are you a senior leader trying to implement large organisational...
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
Two brutal conflicts - one in Gaza, another in Ukraine - have claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives, killed scores of journalists and dominated global headlines for months. But what happens when...
How do we build better, more inclusive and happier news organisations? It can start with very concrete steps. A group of news industry leaders with many years of experience in managing journalists, n...
How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
We’re more than 21 years into the 21st century yet newsrooms are still lagging way behind in reaching gender parity in news coverage - both in terms of content and leadership. Covid-19 has dramatic...
It’s 2020 yet newsrooms are still lagging way behind in reaching gender parity in news coverage - both in terms of content and leadership. So which news outlets have been successful in addressing th...
How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
A commitment to gender equality, through both organisational structure and content, is a marker common to the news publishers studied in the latest report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of J...
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