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April 03, 2014
Experts on Women in the U.S. News Media
The Women's Media Center today released its <a target = new href="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/pages/media-gender-gap">original research</a> on the media gender gap.
Gender inequality among journalists is evident across all media outlets and all issues. Women receive 37% of byline credits across print, internet, and wire news. Women are 40% of evening broadcast anchors and only 1/3 of television reporters and correspondents.
Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, but their voices are often left out of the news we consume.
Expert Spotlight
Julie Burton
WMC President
Womens Media Center
For interviews on women in the U.S. news media.
Julie Burton leads The Women’s Media Center in its efforts to create a level playing field for women and girls through media monitoring, research, training, advocacy, original content, and the promotion of women and girls as media experts. The Women's Media Center today issued a report on the Gender Divide in U.S. News Media and issues an annual report on The Status of Women in the U.S. Media
Areas of Expertise:
Humanitarian, Social justice
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Featured Expert
Geneva Overholser
Independent Journalist and Senior Fellow
Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy
For interviews on women in the U.S. news media.
Geneva Overholser, Women's Media Center board member, is an independent journalist and a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy. She served as director of the USC Annenberg's School of Journalism from 2008 until 2013 and was editor of The Des Moines Register from 1988 to 1995, where she led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She has been ombudsman of The Washington Post and a member of the editorial board of The New York Times. Through the Annenberg Public Policy Center, in 2006 she published a manifesto on the future of journalism titled On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change.
Featured Expert
Janet Dewart Bell
LEAD InterGenerational Solutions
President and Founder
For interviews on women in the U.S. news media.
Janet Dewart Bell is a communications expert and WMC Board Vice Chair. Among her accomplishments are a local Emmy® for outstanding individual achievement (Channel 9, the CBS-TV affiliate in Washington, DC) and the Peabody award for programming at National Public Radio. She has been a key strategist and senior executive at a number of national organizations including PolicyLink, the National Urban League, and National Public Radio (NPR).
Featured Expert
Soraya Chemaly
Director
WMC Speech Project
For interviews on women in the U.S. news media.
Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center board member, is a feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights and the role of gender in politics, religion and popular culture. Most recently, Ms. Chemaly was one of the primary organizers of a successful social media campaign demanding that Facebook recognize misogynistic content as hate speech.
Featured Expert
Dee Dee Myers
Senior Advisor to Governor Newsom and Director, Governor's Office of Business & Economic Development
California Governor's Office
For interviews on women in the U.S. news media.
Dee Dee Myers is a member of the Women's Media Center board and a Managing Director at the Glover Park Group. Myers served as White House Press Secretary during President Bill Clinton’s first term, the first woman to hold that job. Myers continues in her role as a respected political analyst and commentator; she appears frequently on network and cable television, radio and internet programs and is a popular lecturer on politics, the media and women’s issues. Her 2008 book, Why Women Should Rule the World, became a New York Times best-seller.
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