Monitoring Report on the Representation of Women with Disabilities in the News Media

The following five newspapers, three news websites, and three television channels were selected from the Turkish media for the monitoring study: In selecting the newspapers, the criteria were the political backgrounds, prevalence, and frequency of coverage of disability-related content in the printed sources of news subject to monitoring. It was also the news agency, which covered domestic news and disability issues the most and was the bearer of the official ideology, that was included in the monitoring. As news websites, two media outlets were selected: one mainstream website and one website engaged in human rights journalism. As for TV, the channels that were followed the most were identified.