As some of you know, WIMN runs a program called the POWER (Perspectives Of Women Expand Reporting) Sources Project, which connects journalists with a national, diverse network of female sources for their stories. Yesterday, a CanWest reporter contacted us for help finding women who could comment on a new website called Shape of a Mother, […]

Um, how many times do I have to blog on this topic?
This past weekened (7/23), the Washington Post published an article titled “Men, Signing Off: As More Women Become TV Anchors and Reporters, Males Exit the Newsroom.” This tired, sexist refrain — noting that women now hold a majority of some TV […]

In all due fairness, my local newspaper is no better or worse than most, it just happens to have the unfortunate luck of being the first thing I read in the morning, and thus perhaps disproportionately becomes fodder for this blog. This morning they ran a fun little quiz in the Features section (that’s […]

WIMN’s Voices knows, Feministing.com knows, Echidne of the Snakes knows, Carnival of Feminists knows, BroadSheet knows… and now the folks at Pew (and hopefully all those journalists who persistently, and vapidly, claim that blogging is a primarily-male sport) know:
Half of all bloggers are women.
That is, according to a new Pew Internet & American […]

Death, destruction and needless, endless bloodshed in Israel and Lebanon, on the heels of continued death, destruction and needless, endless bloodshed in Iraq.
Luckily, the Associated Press (both print and video), Reuters, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Times, theChicago Tribune and People magazine are all on the job in this extremely depressing news […]

An ongoing list of eco-media I’ve recently discovered created by and/or about women. Individually and collectively, they reinforce the reality that environmental issues touch every aspect of our lives.

Since not too many of us read the Times of India, I am indebted to Lynette Dumble of the Global Sisterhood Network for passing this story along. The American press is always quick to cover President Bush’s promises to help the women of whatever country he happens to be in the mood to invade. […]

Lil’ Kim’s stint in prison for perjury made national and international headlines. It’s odd to consider that the most attention the “issue” of women in prison has received has been on gossipy “reporting” on Martha and Lil’s journeys to the cellblock, but that’s the cult of celebrity for you: If it’s about rich and famous […]

Two months ago, I wrote that Duke University had hired the high-powered public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, to help manage media coverage of the rape charges against Duke lacrosse players. I asked:
… whether media activists should call out inequalities in PR representation. Duke is obviously allocating funds to make sure that its story is […]