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Women's Voices Missing from the Theatre—Does Anyone Care?
In recent weeks, if you scanned the Broadway theatre listings in New York you would see the names of some of the most prominent actresses of our time, such stars as Angela Lansbury, Vanessa Redgrave...
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Berkeley Daily Planet Tribute for Molly Ivins
Molly Ivins died January 31, while under hospice care at her home in Austin. This tribute appeared the day before.
The news over the weekend was not good. Molly Ivins, everyone’s favorite smart-mo...
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January 22, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
Media
Digging at Duke
Last spring, I must have spent more hours with the family of the accuser in the Duke case than any other print journalist. Believe me, the view from inside is nothing like what Americans are being f...
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A Powerful Media Can Stop a War
I want to share a story. I wonder how many know the name, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. How many know who she was?
Abeer was a 14-old-girl, living with her family about 50 miles south of Baghdad...
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault on the “New News” from Africa
With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...
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The Future of Feminism is Online. Are You?
If you want to connect with the 15 to 30 year old crowd, you’d better start inhabiting their world—the virtual one of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, YouTube, and too many blogs to name. Each is ...
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September 06, 2006 | Carol Jenkins |
Media
Katie Couric’s First Day
Be cynical if you like, but this was one newscast that I would not miss—because it was the one I thought I’d never see in my lifetime.
When Katie Couric debuted on the CBS network news, I was ther...
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Regan Hofmann on the Hidden Faces of HIV
“Is there any way that we can stop this?” Regan Hofmann asked the Creative Director of POZ magazine the night before its April edition went to press. With the April issue, Hofmann officially came ou...
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Middle East “Voices of Resistance”
In the displacement of Lebanese civilians due to the current conflict, women are suffering the most, said Lina Abou-Habib, speaking from Beirut on a marathon broadcast by FIRE (Feminist Internationa...
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Pay Gap Is Widest in Top-Paying Media Industry Segments
Women in the highest paid sections of the communications and media industry face an average pay gap of $13,000 a year when compared to men, according to a new report.
The Institute for Women’s Pol...
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Facing Down Goliath
The largest sex discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history. Workers clamoring for fair and affordable healthcare. Community protests against Supercenters. In the battle to preserve its publ...
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Negotiating Net Neutrality
While Congress continues its tug of war over access to U.S. borders, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled today to consider a bill to guarantee fair and open access for users of the Internet i...
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May 17, 2006 | Betsy Wade |
Media
On Rosenthal's Watch
Facing efforts to improve the dismal status of women and minority-group members in the New York Times newsroom of the 1970s, Abe Rosenthal resisted like an emperor who believes his power absolute.
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April 06, 2006 | Gloria Steinem |
Media
Response to Couric
Gloria Steinem, a founder of The Women's Media Center, has the following words in response to Katie Couric's recent move:
By leaving a safe haven, taking a pay cut, and risking the harsh spotlight...
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March 16, 2006 | Ninotchka Rosca |
Media
Media Silence on Major Asia Story: Philippine Congresswoman Charged with Rebellion; Women’s Movement
Why the media blackout on a major story from the Philippines? Filipino papers are not permitted to cover it? Whatever happened to free press in the west?
On the 20th anniversary of the 1986 People...