The Women's Media Center works to make women visible and powerful in the media. Led by our president, Julie Burton, the WMC works with the media to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard.
We are directly engaged with the media at all levels to ensure that a diverse group of women is present in newsrooms, on air, in print and online, in film, entertainment, and theater, as sources and subjects.
The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit progressive women's media organization by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem.
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Data from the Women’s Media Center showed that women of color represent just 7.95% of U.S. print newsroom staff, 12.6% of local TV news staff, and 6.2% of local radio staff in 2018. We must support and protect a diversity of voices in the news industry so journalists can continue reporting stories critical to their local communities and our democracy.
Women are closing the gap in a big way. In 2021, women held 43% of all media credits and bylines, according to the Women’s Media Center. And in podcasting, it’s the same story.
Veteran NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell said Tuesday that she plans to end her weekday MSNBC show after the inauguration of a new president and switch back to a reporting role.
She co-founded the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee as well as the Women’s Media Center, and has been an advocate for gender equality, civil rights and environmental justice.
Legendary actress and activist Jane Fonda will be bestowed with the actors union's highest honor, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
A selection of photographs from the Women's Media Center Women's Media Awards 2024.
Jane Fonda is sharing the best parts about working with friend Gloria Steinem. The actress and activist, 86, spoke with PEOPLE at the Women’s Media Center 2024 Women’s Media Awards on Sept. 19. Fonda, who co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Steinem and Robin Morgan in 2005, says that Steinem, 90, is shaping the future.
Women’s Media Center co-founders Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem announced the honorees of the 2024 Women’s Media Awards on Thursday in NYC. (Page 38)
The Women’s Media Center honored the best in the field during a moving and inspirational ceremony on Sept. 19. Hundreds of guests gathered at JW Marriott Essex House Hotel in New York City for the 2024 Women’s Media Awards to celebrate those who are making waves in the industry in the most incredible way.
Honorees included America Ferrera, Liz Rebecca Alarcón, Yamiche Alcindor, Donna Deitch, Rahna Epting, Jenice Fountain & Chicken & Egg Pictures
Media continues to be the lens through which society constructs meaning and makes sense of the world around them. Those social meanings emanating from the media are primarily associated with how the media selects and constructs content, issues, people, places, events as news values...
Maya Harris attends the Women's Media Center 2017 Women's Media Awards on October 26, 2017 in New York City
Among the other nonprofit organizations that have benefitted from Streisand’s generosity in recent years are the Center for American Progress, Planned Parenthood, Mother Jones, ProPublica, Women’s Media Center, People for the American Way and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Dr. Janet Dewart Bell’s Juneteenth Day lecture on Black women in history and their quest for freedom, justice and democracy is part of a Women’s Media Center Series. It can be viewed at womensmediacenter.com from midday (ET) June 19th (link at the end of this post). It is a free, educational event.
Recently, Koritha Mitchell was honored with the prestigious Women’s Media Center IMPACT Award. In recognition of that major honor, I sat down with Mitchell. In a wide-ranging conversation (which has been edited for length and clarity), we talked about the significance of that honor; the enduring violence that targets Black, Brown, and other folks of color; and her thoughts on the varying receptions of former First Lady Michelle Obama and current Vice President Kamala Harris.
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