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Calling all future Steinems, Maddows, Amanpours and Courics!

August 20, 2010 – 10:12 am

Calling all future Steinems, Maddows, Amanpours and Courics! Do you want to become a political commentator or journalist serving as a strong voice in the media? Apply for the last class of Progressive Women’s Voices in 2010 today!
Apply for Progressive Women’s Voices here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNNFP8G or click here to nominate a friend: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CNFRD93.
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By Jehmu Greene | Also posted in *Feature*, Media, WMC | Comments (0)

EXCLUSIVE Prop 8: Let’s Get Rid of Marriage Instead!

August 6, 2010 – 8:18 am

By Sally Kohn
As the law plays catch-up, Judge Vaughn Walker includes an eloquent analysis of changing gender roles in declaring Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Commentator Sally Kohn argues that the next step should go even further.

Rallies in California and around the U.S. marked the district court ruling.

The recent Federal District Court ruling declaring Proposition 8 [...]

By Sally Kohn | Also posted in *Feature*, Exclusives, Exclusives Articles, LGBT, Law, WMC | Comments (2)

No Excuses Allowed: Tackling the #1 Reason Women Don’t Run for Office

August 3, 2010 – 11:36 am

Yesterday on BlogHer, Jill Miller Zimon examined why women rarely run for office in “No Excuses Allowed: Tackling the #1 Reason Women Don’t Run for Office.”  In her analysis, Zimon decries the media’s culpability for its acceptance of sexism, as highlighted in WMC’s “Sexism Sells – But We’re Not Buying It” video (featured below).  In [...]

By Becca Stanger | Also posted in 2008 Election, Media, Politics | Comments (2)

WMC Board Member Gloria Feldt Calls for Realistic Representation of Unintended Pregnancy in the Media

July 24, 2010 – 7:00 pm

Women’s Media Center Board Member and Progressive Women’s Voices alumnae Gloria Feldt’s stunning piece in The Washington Post highlights the courage and tenacity young women possess when facing the decision to end an unintended pregnancy. Feldt’s insightful analysis of Friday Night Lights’ “I Can’t” episode infuses candid commentary on the state of reproductive justice in [...]

By Jamia Wilson | Also posted in Advocacy, Books, Girls, Health, Reproductive Rights | Comments (1)

PWV Alum Jaclyn Friedman on the Media Portrayal of Al Gore and Sexual Assault

July 21, 2010 – 4:29 pm

This week, PWV Alum Jaclyn Friedman released an article and video blog through The Nation on GRITtv exploring the media reaction to the recent allegations of sexual assault against Al Gore. In these postings, Friedman looks at the way the media seems unable to separate these serious charges from the image that Al Gore enjoys [...]

By Corinne Colgan | Also posted in Media, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women/Girls | Comments (0)

Guyland: Expanding Feminism to the Human Experience

July 21, 2010 – 1:11 pm

I’m tired of talking about women.  I am.  Admittedly, women’s voices are so disproportionately underrepresented in society at large that my individual focus on women benefits the whole.  But in the scope of one person’s life, focusing on one gender to such a degree can grow tiresome.  Which is exactly why Paradigm Shift’s Guyland lecture [...]

By Becca Stanger | Also posted in *Feature*, Books, Events, Feminism, Media, Politics, Race, Young Women & Feminism | Comments (0)

Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever Appointed Executive Director of NCNW

July 21, 2010 – 8:48 am

Women’s Media Center is proud to announce that Progressive Women’s Voices alumna Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever has been appointed Executive Director of the The National Council of Negro Women, Inc.  We look forward to her groundbreaking accomplishments in this new position as she works to amplify women of color’s voices and change the conversation.  For more [...]

By Becca Stanger | Also posted in *Feature*, Press Releases, Race | Comments (1)

Women’s Media Center Announces Next Class of 2010 Progressive Women’s Voices Media and Leadership Training Program

July 14, 2010 – 9:38 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
Jamia Wilson, Vice President of Programs
Women’s Media Center
(212) 563-0680
jamia@womensmediacenter.com
 

WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER ANNOUNCES NEXT CLASS OF 2010 PROGRESSIVE WOMEN’S VOICES MEDIA AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
 
July 12, 2010 (New York) – Women’s Media Center is thrilled to announce the next class of its 2010 Progressive Women’s Voices (PWV) media and leadership training program. Now [...]

By Jamia Wilson | Also posted in Press Releases | Comments (0)

Is Access to the Internet a Right? Deanna Zandt on CNN International (VIDEO)

July 2, 2010 – 3:15 pm

On July 1, 2010, Finland granted its citizens the right to Internet access. The same day, Deanna Zandt, Progressive Women’s Voices alumna, media technologist and author of Share This! How You Will Change the World With Social Networking, contributed her thoughts about this groundbreaking law on CNN International. An expert in the realm of technology [...]

By Corinne Colgan | Also posted in *Feature*, International, Media, Social Media | Comments (0)

Social Media 101 for Activists

June 30, 2010 – 12:56 pm

On Congress.org Ambreen Ali takes a look at Progressive Women’s Voices alumna Deanna Zandt’s new book “Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking”, which faults organizations for treating Twitter and Facebook like broadcasting venues instead of places to have a conversation.  Have you read Deanna’s book yet?  What did you think [...]

By Becca Stanger | Also posted in *Feature*, Advocacy, Blogging, Media, Social Media | Comments (0)