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June 04, 2018 | Kristal Brent Zook | Media
What we don’t know about diversity in newsrooms

A new study finds little diversity on political news teams, but researchers are left with more questions.

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May 17, 2018 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Media
Women and film festivals: Promises are easy, change is hard

As Cannes promises more inclusion, a new study finds that women continue to be underrepresented at film festivals.

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April 20, 2018 | Frances Nguyen | Media
Study of local TV news leaves diversity picture incomplete

News directors say they want to connect with their communities. Hiring diverse staff is key to achieving this goal.

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April 10, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Free Speech, Media, Politics
Is Big Brother coming for the press?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and build a database that it enables it to track and search journalists, editors, and “media influencers” based on their beat and past work.

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March 29, 2018 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media, Race/Ethnicity
50 years after the Kerner Commission, little progress for people of color in media

The commission found that lack of representation fueled media stereotypes and distortions. Half a century later, those stereotypes persist.

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March 16, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Benét Wilson

The last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 15, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Maria Hinojosa

The fifth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 14, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Jenni Monet

The fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 11, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones

The third in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 11, 2018 | Mitra Kalita | Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Mitra Kalita

The second in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 09, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Economy, Media, Politics
Women losing ever more pay as wage gap grows

The last decade saw the slowest progress on closing the gender wage gap in nearly 40 years, according to a report released Wednesday.

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March 08, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Joy-Ann Reid

The first in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 02, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, LGBTQIA, Media
Little news coverage given to anti-LGBTQ violence, despite increasingly deadly toll

LGBTQ murders went up 86 percent in 2017, but remain vastly under-covered in cable and broadcast TV.

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March 01, 2018 | Jessica Montoya Coggins | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
The Latinx Community Protests Hollywood

Three years after the launch of #OscarsSoWhite, activists are demanding Latinx inclusion.

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February 01, 2018 | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | Media, Race/Ethnicity
“We are more complex than that”: How television portrays Asian American women

A new study of the portrayal of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on television has found little progress over the past decade.

WMC News & Features
January 17, 2018 Arts and culture, Media
Will uptick in women’s stories mean more Oscar nominations for women?

In a year when an unprecedented number of female producers brought stories about women to the big screen, Academy Award nominations could include more women than ever — but still, few women of color are likely to be up for awards.

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December 21, 2017 | Rikki Rogers | Media
2017: The year in “empowerment marketing”

How have advertisers responded to this year's shifts in gender politics?

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December 11, 2017 | DeAnne Cuellar | Free Speech, Media
Save Net Neutrality! It enables women and people of color to thrive online and amplify their own stories—uncensored and on their own terms

As a crucial FCC vote nears, a broad coalition is mobilizing to keep an open Internet in the United States.

WMC News & Features
November 16, 2017 Arts and culture, Media
A feminist voice in film

Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday is one of the best in the business — and her feminist perspective on film and Hollywood is increasingly necessary these days.

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November 09, 2017 | Robin Morgan | Economy, Free Speech, Media, Science and tech
Why we need to rein in the tech monopolies

Big Tech monopolies are endangering the Republic and free speech. It's time for some common-sense regulation.

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November 01, 2017 | Marianne Schnall | Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media
Women's Media Awards honor Hillary Rodham Clinton, April Ryan, Maria Hinojosa, and other media trailblazers

A behind-the-scenes look at last week's Women's Media Awards, which highlighted the crucial work of media truth-tellers.

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October 27, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Media, Misogyny, Politics
A night at the Women's Media Awards: Leading the way for women after an oppressive year

A confluence of normalized misogyny and devaluing of women made Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards all the more uplifting, emphasizing the power of sisterhood and the voices of women in media.

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October 27, 2017 Media
The 2017 Women's Media Awards in pictures

Five hundred guests attended the Women’s Media Awards on October 26 at Capitale in New York City.

MSNBC analyst and senior policy adviser to the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign Maya Harris hosted. Honorees were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Hinojosa, Ashley Judd, April Ryan, María Elena Salinas, and Gail Tifford. And we celebrated the landmark 80th birthday of our co-founder Jane Fonda.

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September 28, 2017 | Dr. Martha Lauzen | Arts and culture, Media
What we know for sure about women in television

Dr. Martha Lauzen has been conducting the Boxed In study of women in television for 20 years. Here she highlights what this year's report tells us.

WMC News & Features
September 21, 2017 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Media, Politics
Harvard study documents anti-Clinton media bias

A new study finds that mainstream media outlets were complicit in spreading right-wing propaganda during the 2016 campaign.


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