Women in Jazz Media is an award winning not-for-profit organisation created to help support and create an equal, diverse, safe and healthy Jazz Industry. We are a team of writers, photographers, painters, musicians, presenters, journalists, producers, editors and more, and we are based in China, Spain, Germany, the USA, Serbia, Scotland and England but have roots in France, Italy, Jamaica, Poland, Russia and beyond and collectively speak eight languages.

As we are currently not funded and all of our work is volunteer-based, we are looking to raise some money to support the work we do. Contributions will go towards:

Photography: Our 'Women in Jazz: Her Frame. Her Sound' Photography exhibition is going on tour!

Events: paying musicians and engineers

Publications: paying writers and photographers

Podcasts: Paying hosts and guests

Mentoring Scheme for Writers: paying mentors and new writers

General Admin costs: Design software, magazine subscription platform, social media management, website hosting and more!

WHAT DO WE DO?

Formed on November 24th 2020, Women in Jazz Media is a not-for-profit organization created by award winning Jazz artist and journalist Fiona Ross to help support and create an equal, diverse, safe and healthy Jazz Industry.

Parliamentary Jazz Media Award 2021 Winner

Nominated four times for the National Diversity Community Organisation Award for Gender.

Jazz represents freedom of expression and yet historically, women, people of colour, the LGBTQ community and many more have not been given equal opportunities in the Jazz industry. We explore a wide variety of initiatives to help increase the gender and diversity balance to ensure everyone has a voice. We look for platforms and where no platforms exist, we create ones to ensure everyone can be represented.

We published our first entirely female led and managed magazine, platforming women on International Women’s Day March 2021 and due to its significant success, we publish three magazines a year with a readership that has now reached over 50,000. Actively seeking out existing female writers to support and promote their work we also search for new female writers and offer support through our mentoring scheme. Working with our partner publications and organisations, we explore the diversity of their content and offer support to increase representation where needed.

Through our five podcast series, we explore the careers of industry specialists, challenges and inspirations and discuss what actions we can all take to support and encourage a more diverse Jazz industry. Our ‘In Conversation With...’ podcast series was nominated by the Women’s International Podcast awards in the ‘Changing the World one moment at a time’ category and we were named as one of the Top 15 ‘Women In Media Podcasts’ in 2023 and we are currently at number 9 in the top 60 ‘Best Jazz Podcasts’ in FeedSpot.

Our social media platforms, projects and community have developed significantly since we began and we celebrated our 4 year anniversary in Nov 2024, and this link gives a good overview of the work we have achieved.

Anyone who contributes £100 or more will get a shout-out in our magazine!