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WOMEN UNDER SIEGE

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THE WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER WORKS TO MAKE WOMEN VISIBLE AND POWERFUL IN THE MEDIA

Founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, the Women's Media Center works with media to ensure that women's realities are covered and women's voices are heard.

WMC works to make women visible and powerful in the media. We do so by promoting women as decision makers and as subjects in media; training women to be media ready and media savvy; researching and exposing sexism, racism, and fakery in media; and creating original online and on-air journalism. Our media programs that address the problems of unequal representation and misrepresentation of women in media include interconnected strategies that:

n Recruit and place diverse women experts in the me- n Research, document, and produce reports that highdia -- print, broadcast, radio, Internet, social media, light the status of women in U.S. media and hold meand media leadership -- through WMC SheSource. dia accountable for sexist coverage through Name

n Train diverse women experts to be media savvy and It Change It and WMC Media Watch programs. media ready, and to increase their thought leader- n Advocate before government officials and agenship through WMC Progressive Women's Voices and cies on policies affecting women's access to media other customized leadership and training programs. and technology, and safe and free speech in media

n Create and publish original content to expand di- and technology. verse women's voices and representation through WMC Features, WMC Women Under Siege, WMC FBomb, WMC Speech Project, and our radio program, WMC Live with Robin Morgan.

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FOREWORD...................................................................................................................... 6 PRINT................................................................................................................................. 8

Newspapers' count of minority females stagnated or fell.......................................... 8 A conversation with MacArthur Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones, racial injustice reporter, The New York Times Magazine ................................................................... 10

TELEVISION.................................................................................................................... 14 Several factors dictate paths for TV journalists.......................................................... 14 A conversation with Joy-Ann Reid, MSNBC political analyst.................................... 18

RADIO......................................................................................................................................................................21 Minority women hired less in radio............................................................................. 21 A conversation with Maria Hinojosa, president/founder, Futuro Media.................. 26 A conversation with Jenni Monet, freelance journalist.............................................. 28

ONLINE-ONLY................................................................................................................ 30 Pushing against White male-dominated digital......................................................... 30 A conversation with Mitra Kalita, CNN Digital VP/programming ............................ 33 A conversation with Ben?t Wilson, aviation journalist .............................................. 35

TRYING TO PLUG A LEAKY PIPELINE........................................................................ 38

AFTERWORD.................................................................................................................. 40

TOWARD PARITY: A WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER ROADMAP............................... 41

WMC RESOURCES FOR THE MEDIA......................................................................... 43

SOURCE CITATIONS...................................................................................................... 44

THIS REPORT'S PRODUCERS...................................................................................... 45

WMC ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS................................ 46

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."

-- Ida B. Wells

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