Mirta Rodríguez Calderón Explained

Mirta Rodríguez Calderón
Nationality:	Cuban
Occupation:	Journalist

Mirta Rodríguez Calderón is Cuban journalist based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is known for her advocacy of feminist journalism and gender equality in media. She co-founded the International Network of Journalists With a Gender Perspective in 2005, and is a promoter of alliances among journalists in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, with the aim of including gender-based approaches in social communication.

Career

Educated in Havana, Mirta Rodríguez Calderón first moved to Mexico, and in the late 1990s she moved to the Dominican Republic as a correspondent for Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (SEMlac).^[1]

She was a clandestine operative against the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista with the Martí Women's Civic Front, for which she received recognition from the José Martí Cultural Society of Havana.^[2] She later wrote:

In Cuba, she was co-founder of the Association of Women Communicators (MAGIN), and taught communications at the Pontifical Catholic University of Santo Domingo.^{[1] [3]}

A pioneer in incorporating aspects of gender studies into the training of journalists, together with of, she was a co-founder of the (RIPVG), established in Morelia in 2005.^[1] She was editor of the Journal of Communication and A Primera Plana, a newspaper dedicated to promoting equality between men and women in the media.^{[1] [3]}

She is especially known for her coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which won the 2011 Mary Fran Myers Award.^[3] She has worked with the Women and Health Collective, and with CEMUJER, a grassroots women's organization in Santo Domingo.^[3]

Awards and recognition

• 2011 May Fran Myers Award for her journalistic work on gender and natural disasters
• Recognition of the José Martí Cultural Society of Havana

Publications

• Tania, the Unforgettable Guerrilla (1971), cowritten with Marta Rojas,
• Hablar sobre el hablar (1985), Editorial de Ciencias Sociales
• Dígame usted! (1989), Editorial Pablo de la Torriente
• Semillas de fuego: compilación sobre la lucha clandestina en la capital, Volume 1 (1989), collective work

Articles

• "No nos han dejado salir de las guardarrayas" (2001)
• "Belén do Pará: La Convención que lo dijo casi todo y ha logrado poco" (2012), news and reports for SEMlac
• "Dominicana: Ciudadanía plena y democracia, objetivos de mujeres latinoamericanas" (2012), news and reports for SEMlac
• "Dominicana: Diputadas concertan agendas de género para próximo gobierno" (2012), news and reports for SEMlac
• "Dominicana: Elegirá la población nuevo presidente en comicios conflictivos" (2012)
• "Dominicana: Protestas en la calle por mujeres agredidas y asesinadas" (2012), news and reports for SEMlac
• "Julieta Paredes: Un feminismo que cree en las utopías y la comunidad" (2012)
• "República Dominicana: Aluvión de protestas y manifestaciones" (2012)
• "República Dominicana: Revisión de acuerdos de El Cairo: ¿más de lo mismo?" (2012)
• "Dominicana: Otra niña embarazada puede morir" (2013)
• "Dominicana: Romper cadenas bailando para rechazar la violencia" (2013), news and reports for SEMlac
• "Dominicanas: Mujeres vuelven a enfrentarse al Congreso por Código Penal" (2013)
• "República Dominicana: Matrimonio homosexual se abre paso" (2013)

Notes and References

1. News: 'La noticia no tiene sexo pero el tratamiento sí que tiene género' . 'The News Has No Sex, but Treatment Does Have Gender' . Julia . López . AmecoPress . Barcelona . Spanish . 2007-07-19 . 2021-07-13.
2. Web site: Homenaje de la Sociedad Cultural José Martí a la Mujer y la Prensa . Tribute by the José Martí Cultural Society to Women and the Press . José Martí Cultural Society . Spanish . 2021-07-13 . 13 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210713191235/http://www.josemarti.cu/homenaje-de-la-sociedad-cultural-jose-marti-a-la-mujer-y-la-prensa/ . dead .
3. Web site: The Mary Fran Myers Award, 2011 . Gender & Disaster Network . 2021-07-13 . 7 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210507045350/http://www.gdnonline.org/mfm_award_2011.php . dead .