If you’re not able to be in Minneapolis for the National Conference on Media Reform, you can listen to live streaming video and audio from the opening plenary, here (you can also watch and hear clips from panels, full video and audio from plenaries, and more on a constant basis from now until Sunday).
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If you’re planning on attending the National Conference on Media Reform (NCMR 2008), I’m excited to invite you to what promises to be a fascinating and compelling conversation between some of the most dynamic, effective women leaders of the multi-faceted media justice movement.
On behalf of Women In Media & News (WIMN), I’m moderating a […]

A recent eWEEK article, “Where Did All The Girl Geeks Go?” has sparked a few questions about where the women are in IT. On the heels of the recent computer world report indicating that women in IT jobs are earning less, pay inequity could be one of the reasons. (Not that you have […]

Media love to tell women we should be ashamed of aging. “You never ask a lady her age,” we hear from news anchors to soap opera characters. But WIMN’s Voices is turning 1,000 today, and we couldn’t be happier at how we’ve grown up.
This, in fact, is the thousandth post to WIMN’s Voices, the […]

Opportunity for Boston area folks: This weekend through Monday there will be several chances to meet Women In Media & News’s staff, board and bloggers at the WAM!2008 conference today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday), as well the next day (Monday) at MIT, where I will be speaking about reality TV as cultural backlash against women […]

Gotta love Stephen Colbert. In a segment of tonight’s “The Colbert Report” about water issues, Mr. Mock-O’Reilly himself explained: “Here’s how scientists say the water cycle works. First, the sun causes ground water to evaporate, which then condenses into clouds. Then, feminists and taxes make God cry, an the ocean gets replenished.”
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You know that we don’t ask for your financial support very often. We’re asking now because we really need it. After years on its last legs, the computer our tireless Executive Director uses has bitten the dust. Kicked the bucket. Kaput.

The Breast Cancer Fund, the grassroots education and advocacy organization, is spreading the word that industry consultant Gail Charnley, who has been a paid advocate for the coal, tobacco, pesticide, and chlorine industries, is being considered for the long-vacant slot as head of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC). Ahem: Besides the fact that […]

For the millions of women in America debilitated by chronic pain, the page one article in Monday’s (January 14) New York Times was like a punch in the gut, taking their quest to get medically treated back decades.
With a tone of barely hidden scorn, the article reinforced the most vicious Civil-War Era stereotypes of women […]

If you value WIMN’s Voices–and you want to amplify women’s voices online, in print, on TV and radio, and in the public debate at large–we need your help.