Speaking Events & Media
Appearances at events, on TV and in online interviews, podcasts & series.
Missing Perspectives: How women are left out of the news
02 December, 2020
Susan Byrnes, Chief Communications Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation interviews Luba about her work on women's representation and portrayal in the news.
Speakers in Women’s Commission explore role of gender-sensitive COVID-19 response plans in creating more resilient, inclusive communities
10 July, 2021
Luba Kassova presents at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, where she argues that women's representation in news media must improve in the future.
International Report: Women are discriminated against in the news about COVID-19
04 October, 2020
Bulgaria's bTV correspondent in London Vasil Hristov interviews Luba on Bulgaria's most watched current affairs programme "120 minutes" about the impact of the pandemic on women and their representation in news media.
Women’s voices missing from news, study finds
04 December, 2020
An article including an interview with Luba which focuses on Luba's "The Missing Perspectives of Women in News" publication.
A Life More Extraordinary video episode 5
17 July, 2021
Luba was a panellist in this episode called "Rage Against The Machine - Enough is Enough PART 2!!! - exploring equality, racism & climate change. "What can we learn from the new generation of activism that is trying to cut through the void/noise? As millions have taken to the streets and social media to share their anger, frustrations and hopes for change, we ask what’s really going on?...And how can we learn and build in to make it better beyond."
A Life More Extraordinary podcast
17 July, 2021
In this live face-to-face podcast episode, Sarah Burbedge and Oliver Matthews speak with Luba Kassova and Richard Addy.They share their joint journey through the pandemic as a biracial couple and parents in a multiracial and multicultural household, starting out on their journey as gender and race equality campaigners.
Revealed - women’s continuing under-representation in the news and why it’s not changing
11 December, 2020
A dedicated session where Luba covers women's continuing under-representation in the news, why it's not changing and what should be done about it.
Author of the Guardian article on COVID-19 in Bulgaria: the vaccination policy of the former government is inhumane
22 May, 2021
Luba Kassova is interviewed on the most popular morning show in Bulgaria by Vasil Hristov about the generational inequalities in Bulgaria's pandemic approach.
May 2021: Whose press freedom? The missing representation of women in the media
09 June, 2021
Author Luba Kassova shares the key findings from “The Missing Perspectives of Women in News”, followed by a discussion on the impact this continued marginalization has on global press freedom with Capital B’s Lauren Williams and Bloomberg’s Laura Zelenko, moderated by URL Media’s S. Mitra Kalita.
Key takeaways for improving the representation of women in the news
15 February, 2021
Luba Kassova joins IJNet's Managing Editor Taylor Mulcahey to discuss the representation of women across all news coverage in a solutions-focused presentation and Q&A session.
