The Women's Media Center works to make women visible and powerful in the media. Led by our president, Julie Burton, the WMC works with the media to ensure that women’s stories are told and women’s voices are heard.
We are directly engaged with the media at all levels to ensure that a diverse group of women is present in newsrooms, on air, in print and online, in film, entertainment, and theater, as sources and subjects.
The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit progressive women's media organization by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem.
This Women’s Media Center press kit contains approved WMC images, logos and biographies for reporters, editors, producers and bookers.
For additional information, please contact Cristal Williams Chancellor, director of communications, cristal@womensmediacenter.com or 202-270-8539 or mediarelations@womensmediacenter.com.
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WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER Co-Founders Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, announced today that THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER will celebrate its 15th anniversary by hosting the first-ever WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER BENEFIT AUCTION. The auction will be launched on November 9th and will continue until November 15th.
The Women’s Media Center launches a new digital channel publishing original stories and commentary by progressive, feminist Latinx women in both English and Spanish.
The Women’s Media Center's report - WMC 2020 Investigation: Gender & Non-Acting Primetime Emmy Nominations - found that a bigger pool of nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards hasn’t made much of a difference in bringing overall gender parity to the nominations in behind-the-scenes categories: Women represented 35% of those nominations while men were 65%.
Newsroom executives need to better protect journalists from online abuse and harassment if they are to retain women and people of color in media, according to a Women’s Media Center report released today.
Julie Burton, president and CEO of the Women’s Media Center, on Thursday was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Dean Cynthia Berg and the University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Sciences for her exemplary leadership, public service and innovation.
The overall percentage of female Oscar nominees in non-acting categories rose by just 5 percentage points to 30 percent this year - a long way from gender parity - according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.
THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER hosted their 2019 WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS on October 22nd at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.
Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem — the Co-Founders of The Women’s Media Center — announce the honorees for the 2019 Women’s Media Awards, to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.
The Women’s Media Center is delighted to announce the eighth season of the award-winning podcast “WMC Live with Robin Morgan,” a weekly program with a listenership in 112 countries around the world. The season premiere features an intimate conversation with Women’s Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem about her new book, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off. Morgan’s commentaries this week target digital assistants, tactics to fight ageism, what’s really inside the headlines, “female Viagra”, and mosquitos.
Despite a year in television that was dominated by female-driven content on screen, gender parity remains elusive for women in non-acting nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center analysis.
Women's Media Center releases new study of the representation of women and girls in science fiction and superhero films from 2009 - 2018.
The report highlights that sci-fi/superhero films have been mostly by, about and for men or boys.
Women’s Media Center co-founder Gloria Steinem — journalist, author, activist, and feminist organizer — celebrates her 85th birthday today [March 25].
The Women’s Media Center is commemorating this happy occasion by posting short birthday greetings from over 85 artists, journalists, activists, and many life-long friends from around the globe expressing what the women’s rights pioneer has meant to them and to the feminist movement. Many conjure up an experience or memory that exemplifies Steinem, or a personal insight about the impact she has had.
The Women’s Media Center’s Investigation 2019: Gender and Non-Acting Oscar Nominations finds that women are, again, missing from the picture. No women were nominated in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, and Visual Effects, and only one woman was nominated in Animated Feature film and in each of the two writing categories.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) joins the Women’s Media Center Board of Directors and will give closing remarks at WMC 2018 Women’s Media Awards on Nov. 1st in New York City.
The WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER announces our host and honorees for the 2018 WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS, to be held on November 1st, at Capitale in New York City.
WMC AWARDS will be presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media, including Lisa Borders, Abigail Disney, Fatima Goss Graves, Cindy Holland, Maria Teresa Kumar, and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.