Amidst a conversation about President Obama’s attempt to pass health care reform on this morning’s episode of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” commentator Donny Deutsch offered insight about why the process has taken so long: hormones.
“Say what you want about George Bush,” he went on, “There was testosterone, and that exudes everything you do. You could use [...]
By Mary Kay Blakely
As the world recognizes International Women’s Day, essayist Mary Kay Blakely assesses the contribution of women’s media, not the least of which may well be charting a path to a healthy journalism that serves the public good.
Everyone I know is alarmed by the disappearance of city newspapers and the retreat [...]
Last week, the NCAA — the major governing body of college sports — yanked a Focus on the Family banner ad from its website due to the group’s homophobic agenda, which conflicts with the NCAA’s policy of inclusion. WMC President Jehmu Greene appeared on the O’Reilly factor last night to discuss and opened with “The [...]
I went to a panel on Tuesday afternoon dedicated to the increasingly widespread and meticulous Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) which has, since 1995, produced volunteer-driven international research on women’s representation in news media. The project is gigantic, and they only do it every five years, so it was a real honor to be present – [...]
“Give a girl a camera and watch a woman grow.”
- Kgomotso Matsunyane, T.O.M. Pictures, South Africa
Yesterday, Global Girl Media (GGM) Cofounder and Executive Director Amie Williams, Program Director Kamala Lopez and Director of Content and Distribution Therese Steiner organized an intimate brunch in New York City with Guest of Honor Julie Foudy in the lovely [...]
By Melissa Silverstein
Women & Hollywood’s blogger here assesses the implications of a historic win for Kathryn Bigelow.
In less than one week, March 7 to be exact, the Hollywood awards season will be over, and chances are very good that for the first time a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—will have won the best director Oscar for [...]
As the 2010 Winter Olympic games come to a close, we head into college basketball’s March Madness – the end-all, be-all of NCAA championships. While U.S. Skier Lindsay Vonn’s medal wins in Vancouver and Serena Williams’ victory at the Australian Open have made international headlines, triumphs in women’s team sports are still virtually unheard of [...]
After letting loose a string of misogynist remarks, ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser has been suspended by the network for two weeks. On his February 16 radio show, Kornheiser said that SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm wore “a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt…way too short for somebody [...]
Tracy Van Slyke, Director of The Media Consortium (and a Progressive Women’s Voices alum), and Jessica Clark, Research Director for American University’s Center for Social Media, have just published the already-much-talked/blogged/tweeted-about Beyond the Echo Chamber. The book explores the innovation and reach of new progressive media, from Feministing to Talking Points Memo to Brave New [...]
Prolific photographer Kimberly Butler has just launched a vlog series on the corporatization of media, asking a variety of folks-who-would-know – including former WMC president Carol Jenkins: Was Marshall McLuhan right when he declared that a given medium was more important than the message? How did news become big business, and what does it mean [...]
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