The Media Studies Department at Queens College, City University of New York announces two tenure track positions.
Position # 1
Assistant Professor - Film Studies
Queens College-City University of New York
Closing Date: 11-15-2008
Salary Range: $38,801 - $67,092
Description of Duties
The Department of Media Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY) announces an opening for […]

By Guest Blogger Mara Einstein

According to an article in yesterday’s New York Post, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer “is the reason an estimated 50,000 women a year are quitting the church.” This information is based on a new report by Dr Kristin Aune, a sociologist at the University of Derby.
According to this work, Buffy introduces […]

This job announcement comes to us from Hye-Jung Park at the Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange. MJF/FE supports many of WIMN’s allied advocacy groups, and this is a chance for potential consultants to get involved with some of the most groundbreaking media advocacy work in the country. I encourage women and people of […]

EDITORIAL NOTE: This marks the first post from Cynematic, WIMN’s Voices newest house blogger on women, media and politics. Because she is blogging from the convention it will be a few days before we can put up a full profile page for her, so she’s posting as a guest blogger today — this will be […]

By Guest Blogger Kristen Harbeson

Here is what the New York Times wants me to know about what is going on in my country on August 21, 2008:
1) Millionaires in Los Angeles are giving up mansions to live in condos. This story is accompanied by a picture of Candy Spelling, the smiling widow of Aaron […]

By Guest Blogger Irene Villasenor

If you are interested in rectifying the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media, one way to get started is by interning at the first and longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction film, P.O.V. (’point-of-view’). Produced by American Documentary, P.O.V. premieres 14-16 high-impact documentaries every year on PBS. Hailed by critics […]

This week I had the opportunity to witness the launch of a study entitled; “Whose views, whose news, Gender and Tabloid,” by Colleen Lowe Morna, the Executive Director of Gender Links.
The launch, which took place during the Gender Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa was organized by Gender Links and Gender and Media, Southern African […]

“I can attest that media regards women in leadership with some mixture of awe and confusion. I am alternatively referred to as either the ‘Iron Lady of Liberia,’ or ‘Ma Sirleaf.’ Perhaps this shows the dual nature of women leaders!” - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia…

Malibongwe – a word in the Zulu and !Xhosa languages meaning “let the women be praised,” roused the 180 delegates attending the third Gender and Media (GEM) Summit (http://www.genderlinks.org.za/page.php?p_id=400) to action, in Johannesburg, August 10-12.

Among the issues on the table at that meeting was a draft policy on gender equity in the media.

More details to come, but quick hit for now: As part of Women In Media & News’s multimedia lecture series on women, media, politics and pop culture, I will be taking WIMN’s media analysis on the road this fall with a new lecture titled, “When Anchormen Attack: Gender, Race and the Media in the 2008 […]