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WMC News Brief: GLAAD Media Awards, Abortion & Health Care, Shariah Law

March 15, 2010 – 11:47 am

Joy Behar, Rachel Maddow Win GLAAD Media Awards
3/14/10
Huffington Post: Joy Behar, Rachel Maddow and Cynthia Nixon are among this year’s recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Obama Administration Pushes Back On Abortion Claims
3/14/10
NY Times: Anti-choice groups have asserted that the health care bill would expand the availability of abortions through [...]

WMC News Brief: Anti-Choice Subway Ads, WWII Aviators, India Lawmaker Quota

March 11, 2010 – 12:21 pm

Ads Tell Women: “Abortion Changes You”
3/9/10
Salon: Today, the New York City subway system was hit with a series of ads from the organization Abortion Changes You. They depict either a woman saying, “I thought life would be the way it was before,” or a man saying, “I often wonder if there was something I could [...]

Tracy Van Slyke: A Woman Making History

March 11, 2010 – 11:20 am

30 Women Making HistoryIn recognition of the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, Women’s Media Center is profiling 30 extraordinary women making history.  Our goal is to raise $10,000 to support WMC Exclusives — every dollar raised will go directly toward hiring women writers to comment on major news stories and report topics often neglected [...]

The Democrats’ Dilemma: Their Own Trojan Horse Kicks Free

November 12, 2009 – 3:07 pm

The Democrats’ Dilemma: Their Own Trojan Horse Kicks Free
by Gloria Feldt
Democratic leaders have said that the turn-around on abortion contained in the House health-reform bill will not appear in the final version. The author, a Women’s Media Center board member and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, explains here why voters who value [...]

Gloria Steinem on her 75th in the new issue of Ms.

November 2, 2009 – 10:24 am

WMC co-founder Gloria Steinem celebrated her 75th birthday this spring. To commemorate, she shared her birthday wishes for a feminist future in the new issue of Ms. magazine.  “If as much changes in the next 75 years,” says Steinem, “we will need bigger dreams.”
The new issue of Ms. with all of Steinem’s comments hits newsstands [...]

WMC Statement on Media Coverage of Polanski Case

September 30, 2009 – 12:52 pm

The Women’s Media Center (WMC) calls on the media to focus their coverage of Roman Polanski’s recent arrest where it belongs: on the crime he committed, the rape of a child. Originally indicted in 1977 on six felony counts, including rape and child molesting, Polanski and his attorneys reached a deal in which he pled [...]

WMC VP Testone To Head NYC LGBT Center: Press Round Up

September 18, 2009 – 4:10 pm

The WMC’s VP of the last 3 years, Glennda Testone, has been named Executive Director of the NYC LGBT Center, the largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and second largest LGBT community center in the world.  After a national search, the Center wisely chose our own Glennda Testone to follow longtime Center [...]

Ted Kennedy and my Granddaughters

September 16, 2009 – 9:55 am

Guest post by Nadine B. Hack, President, beCause Global Consulting
My husband Jerry Dunfey and I were profoundly honored to be on vigil during the final hour Ted Kennedy’s casket was at the JFK Library before his family brought him to the church for his funeral.  The next day one of our granddaughters [...]

WMC President Carol Jenkins on Kristof/WuDunn Book

September 9, 2009 – 1:57 pm

Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins joins a host of other notable commentators on Kristof & WuDunn’s new book, “Half The Sky,” running this week on RH Reality Check, a UN-funded, award-winning, progressive, online publication covering global reproductive and sexual health news. The series is called “Women Need Rights, Not Rescue.” Other contributing [...]

CNN Casting New Show – So Far, Only Men Need Apply

September 9, 2009 – 10:38 am

According to this Mediabistro item, CNN is casting a new “Crossfire” type show, where liberal and conservative thinkers will go head to head. So far, the names mentioned in consideration for the show include Roland Martin, Errol Louis, Cenk Uygur and Steve A. Smith on the left and Roe Conn, Joe Watkins, Steve Malzberg and  [...]