Weinstein and Simmons accusers had an opportunity to speak out at a festival panel and react to Weinstein's conviction.
While Venezuela reels from its ongoing political and humanitarian crises, attacks against members of the press, and particularly women journalists, have become especially acute.
The report discovered that scripted crime television shows, which millions of viewers tune into on a regular basis, depict a false narrative about the unchecked heroism of law enforcement.
Actress Jo Martin will be the first black Doctor, and the second woman, in the series’ history.
This month, Kotex has initiated a new ad campaign that uses red fluid to simulate menstrual blood.
A recent study found that there was also an unprecedented number of discussions about abortion depicted on television — more than ever observed in a single year.
2019 was a banner year for women in the entertainment industry. But female filmmakers are still unable to break the “celluloid ceiling.”
No women were nominated in the category of Best Director at the Golden Globes even though there were more women-directed top-grossing movies in 2019 than in any year before.
The continued exclusion of female talent shows that major awards are based not on merit but on the biases of individuals.
Over one billion people live with disability, yet this group is barely represented in the media.
Although several major film festivals have pledged to have equal representation for female directors by 2020, progress has been slow. Here is our year-end follow-up to our midyear report on how they are doing.
In a world in which long hair is equated to femininity and beauty, Tunzi challenged patriarchal prescriptions for what an ideal beautiful woman should look like. And that decision — among her many other qualifications and great performance — earned her the crown.
The brand’s thinly veiled attempt to pivot to a “by her, for her” image after intense criticism and declining sales is unlikely to work.
A new report from GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) shows that there has been an incredible improvement in the representation of the LGBTQ community across TV platforms this year.
Cardinal's role in ABC's Stumptown — a tough, complex CEO — is one of the most prominent indigenous characters ever to appear on U.S. television.
Everybody loves Disney. The only problem is that Disney didn’t use to love everybody — but now, they’re addressing that with a new disclaimer on the streaming service.
Can the visibility of prominent female journalists help to smash stereotypes about workers who are pregnant or new mothers?
The first rule of reporting on sexual assault is to get consent from survivors that you can use their name, image, or identifying details. Australian public broadcaster ABC screwed that up pretty badly when it began early embargoed distribution of a documentary that is actually about—seriously—#MeToo.
The discussion around Rep. Katie Hill's resignation has mostly missed the truths about the crime that was committed against her.
Women, mostly, are not encouraged in society to share their opinion. In 2012, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article in which they revealed that women only wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation’s leading newspapers.
Four hundred people gathered last night at the 2019 WMC Women’s Media Awards at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City to honor a variety of women whose work embodies the WMC mission of making women visible and powerful in media.
Showcases at New York Comic Con, an annual event for pop culture fans, indicate that the future is getting brighter for on-camera female representation in superhero/sci-fi films and TV. Behind the camera, progress has been much slower.
Although we may always question whether or not we will be reprimanded for publishing a certain story, female journalists must continue to make ourselves and those around us aware of the issues self-censorship creates in the long run.
Even though Latinos are 18.3 percent of the U.S. population, research has found that only 4.5 percent of all speaking characters in top films are Latino — a number that has changed little over the years.
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