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 […]

Hot off the heels of the extremely productive media commentary workshop that Catherine Orenstein and I co-facilitated at BlogHer (which ended yesterday morning), I went directly to the Tides Foundation’s Momentum 2008 conference, which is bringing together visionary progressive leaders in a broad swatch of sectors, to share their best thinking on what America’s deepest […]

When Jesse Helms, “one of America’s most notorious race-baiters” recently died, there was much consternation about how we shouldn’t “speak ill of the dead.”
So this morning, when I read that jovial propagandist Tony Snow died of colon cancer at the premature age of 53, I thought — let me not do that. Instead of […]

Guest Blogger Diana Duarte
As the G8 was meeting on July 7-9 to discuss the food crisis raging across the globe, countries were scrambling to put in place measures that might bring some degree of relief for their populations. The New York Times laid out the desperate situation in Haiti, where hunger has provoked […]

This goes out to all our Bay Area friends — WIMN’s having a party on July 17, and I hope to see you there. Feel free to forward this post to any Bay Area journalists, media producers, media activists, feminists, progressives and others who you think might like to eat, drink, network and collaborate.
–Jenn
You’re invited! […]

I’ve said for a long time that the problems with American corporate media are structural, and that those of us who are media critics and media activists must remember that many good journalists really are trying to do the best they can to produce accurate, critical, important news — even as their employers and the […]

Saturday, 12:15: Right now, at the National Conference of Media Reform, I have the immense pleasure of moderating a panel called “There Is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism” with some of the women I respect most in the world — women who are simultaneously as creative, funny and […]

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).
As she […]

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 […]

Greetings from Istanbul’s first-ever “international conference for nonsexist media.” Mediz, a media watch project organized by a coalition of Turkish women’s rights NGOs (view Mediz’s English website here), has invited me — along with WIMN’s Voices blogger Ammu Joseph as well as several other women who do media activism, media production and media criticism […]