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Kate Murphy

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Kate Murphy is a former WMC intern and a senior at Fordham University in New York, where she is double-majoring in Journalism and Sociology. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the paper, Fordham University’s ad-free, censorship-free alternative newspaper, where she mainly writes about politics and social justice issues. She has also interned with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a progressive media watch group, and the New York Botanical Garden’s editorial department. This past summer she was published nationally for the first time in Extra!, a monthly magazine of media criticism, and this November she will travel to Germany as a Fulbright Scholar for the Berlin Capital Program for young journalists.

Recent Posts by Kate Murphy

Marilyn French’s Characters Speak to Me

September 16, 2009 – 11:19 am

By Kate Murphy
A college senior considers both The Women’s Room and French’s posthumously published novel, The Love Children, from the point of view of her own generation. And the experience clarifies her feminist sensibility.
As I plunged headfirst into The Women’s Room, the most famous novel of the late feminist Marilyn French, I found myself submerged in [...]

Join The WMC In Supporting Sudanese Journalist Lubna Al-Hussein

August 10, 2009 – 12:24 pm

For weeks, the WMC has been following the events surrounding journalist Lubna al-Hussein, who was arrested, along with twelve other women in Sudan, for wearing trousers in public. She faces public flogging as punishment for her “crime.”
On July 13, the WMC included a piece in our news brief about the breaking story, from BBC:
Several Sudanese [...]

Lesley Visser Voted No. 1 Female Sportscaster in USA

July 20, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Lesley Visser, a sportscaster for CBS, was voted the number 1 female sportscaster in the nation by the American Sportscasters Association.
In response to the honor, Visser commented, “I am so thrilled and appreciative of this honor,” Visser said. “I am equally proud of the other women.”
CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus commented, “Her career [...]

Why Senators Graham & Sessions Are Technically Right But Miss the Boat By Laura E. Gómez

July 20, 2009 – 12:56 pm

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) both asserted during their questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor that, if they’d made the reverse statement she made about a wise Latina judge about white male judges, it would have been a career ender for them.  As Graham put in a rhetorical question to Obama’s first [...]

Limbaugh Dismisses Need For Domestic Violence Adviser

July 1, 2009 – 11:39 am

Just when you think Rush Limbaugh can’t be any more of a hateful force in America, we come across something like this. On the June 29th broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Limbaugh addressed President Obama’s appointment of Lynn Rosenthal to the new position of White House adviser on violence against women. Among other [...]

Sunday Morning Still Segregated, says Carol Jenkins in WashTimes

June 30, 2009 – 9:52 am

In a July 28 Washington Times article about Sunday morning political talk shows, WMC President Carol Jenkins took the networks to task for their continued exclusion of women and people of color:
“We always refer to Sunday morning as the most segregated hour of broadcasting still left on the air,” said Carol Jenkins, president of the [...]

Women And Revolution In Iran From Girl w/ Pen

June 25, 2009 – 9:38 am

PWV participant and WMC friend Deborah Siegel’s site, girlwpen.com, has a great piece from authors Gwendolyn Beetham and Tonni Brodber on women and revolution in Iran, titled “Global Exchange: Talking About A Revolution.”
Here’s an excerpt:
“If you’re like us, you’ve spent the past couple of weeks glued to your computer, watching the historic Iranian election – [...]

Women & Children First: How We Can Save This Chicago Institution

June 12, 2009 – 1:13 pm

As gigantic book superstores continue to squeeze out independent book sellers in towns both small and large, sometimes it’s easy to forget that a bookstore can be so much more than just a store; it can provide a sense of community and a center for action. In the case of Chicago’s Women & Children First, [...]

Update: Euna Lee and Laura Ling Sentenced to 12 Years in North Korean Labor Camps

June 8, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, have been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in North Korea’s prison camps by the country’s highest court. The sentencing is the result of a five-day trial for what the Korean Central News Agency called a “grave crime… committed against the Korean nation and their illegal [...]