Caryl Rivers

Bio:

Caryl Rivers is an author, journalist, media critic, and professor of journalism at Boston University. In 2007 she was awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for distinguished journalism.She is the author of four novels and twelve works of nonfiction. Also, with Rosalind Barnett, an award-winning senior research psychologist, she is the author of The Truth About Girls and Boys: Confronting Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children (2011). Articles based on the book won a Casey medal for distinguished journalism about children and families and a special citation from the national education writers association. Their book She Works, He Works (Harper Collins) won the national Books for a Better Life award.

Rivers’ books Selling Anxiety (University Press of New England) and Slick Spins and Factured Facts (Columbia University Press) examined issues of gender, race, and media.

She received a Goldsmith Research Grant from the Shorenstein Center at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, for research on gender and media issues, a Gannett Freedom Forum journalism grant for research on media, and the Donna Allen award for Feminist Advocacy from the AEJMC Status of Women commission.

Her coming-of-age novel, Virgins, sold more than a million copies around the world and is now published online by Diversion press.

Caryl Rivers is a WMC SheSource expert on women in politics, gender discrimination, and media bias.