Thanks to the supporters of The Women’s Media Center, our WMC Media Awards celebration on June 17, 2009 was sold out — an outstanding success for this inaugural awards event!

The Women’s Media Center gives our deep and heartfelt thanks to our generous host Elizabeth A. Sackler, WMC Honorary Advisory Council member and friend, for making our intimate evening such a beautiful and important night.

We give special thanks to our sponsor Prudential Insurance Company of America, and WMC Board members Loreen Arbus, Jodie Evans, Gloria Feldt, Jane Fonda and Teresa McBride. We also thank WMC Honorary Advisory Council member, Dina Dublon, for her generous support of this event.

The WMC is especially grateful to our friends Barbara Rick of Out of the Blue Films and Jim Anderson of Anderson Video for recording the event! Footage from the evening to be posted soon.

Join us as we continue the celebration of women in the media!  Make a donation in honor of your favorite women in the media with a gift of $25 or more to the WMC today.  With your help we can continue to amplify women’s voices and fight sexism in the media. 

Candy Crowley and Bonnie Erbe

Gini Reticker and Lynn Nottage

Rebecca Traister and Pam Spaulding

Honored at the WMC’s Media Awards:

• Christiane Amanpour, the dean of international correspondents for CNN, for giving us an enlightened view of religion and its impact around the world.
• Helene Cooper, diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, for giving us consistently intelligent reports over a lengthy career covering a range of domestic and international stories.
• Candy Crowley, of CNN, for being a clear and probing political correspondent for a contentious election whose reporting never veered into opinion.
• Bonnie Erbe, for providing a forum for women’s voices analyzing the most important topics of the day for 18 years.
• Tina Fey, for being a creator, writer, producer and actor of a hit show on primetime television, 30 Rock on NBC.
• Rachel Maddow, for being an incisive progressive on The Rachel Maddow Show on NSNBC, with a way of getting to the point much sooner than most.
• Lynn Nottage, for use of breaking news about women in her work. Lynn won a Pulitzer for Ruined, her dramatic portrayal of what rape in the Congo has created in women’s lives.
• Gini Reticker and Abigail Disney, for their award-winning documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, that follows the market women of Liberia who exiled a president and installed Africa’s first woman president.
• Pam Spaulding, for creating a website, Pam’s House Blend, that gives the LGBT community a strong, insightful voice-and a center of action.
• Rebecca Traister, for her consistently articulate essays on Salon.com in a series of pieces dealing with the year of our presidential race and Hillary Clinton’s role in it.

Coverage of the Event:

• Huffington Post: Women in the Media: A Night of Recognition
• CNN: New honors for CNN’s Crowley
• MediaBistro: Steinem’s Women’s Media Center Holds First Annual Media Awards
• Feministing: The Women’s Media Center Honors Outstanding Feminist Journalists
• Pam’s House Blend: My night at the 2009 Women’s Media Center Awards…
• WMC: Celebrating Women’s Media Successes
• Make Waves: Women’s Media Center

It is thanks to supporters like you that The Women’s Media Center has made such progress in Making Women Visible and Powerful in the Media.  Please consider making a gift today in honor of the incredible women we have honored here.

Warmest Wishes,

Carol Jenkins
WMC President