Carol Jenkins, a writer and producer, is an Emmy award winning former television anchor and correspondent, and Founding Chair of the Board of Greenstone Media, the talk radio network for women.

Ms. Jenkins is the author, with her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, of Black Titan, A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. It was selected by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as one of the best non-fiction books of 2004. She is an executive producer of the PBS documentary, What I Want My Words To Do To You, which won The Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003.

Ms. Jenkins enjoyed a 30 year, award-winning tenure with several New York City news departments, including 23 years at WNBC-TV, where she co-anchored the pivotal 6 p.m. newscast. She was most identified with her reporting of national political stories, including from the floor of Democratic and Republican national conventions that yielded Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. She hosted her own daily talk show, Carol Jenkins Live, on WNYW-TV.

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The Women’s Media Center Responds to Alleged Comments from Warner Brothers’ Jeff Robinov

The online community has been abuzz with response to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood report on alleged comments from Warner Brothers President of Production Jeff Robinov about the studio’s support of woman-lead features. According to Finke’s report, Robinov stated that, “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead.”

Whether or not Mr. Robinov made this statement, it is important to note why this story has had such legs in the online community. The fact is that women are drastically underrepresented at all levels of the film industry. According to a study from Dr. Martha M. Lauzen of San Diego State University, women comprised just 15 percent of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2006 – the same percent as in 1999, and a decline of two percentage points from 2005 (source: The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women in the Top 250 Films of 2006).

This lack of representation is a common theme across all forms of media, impacting everything from story selection to hiring practices. Without women decision makers in the news room or on the studio lot, important stories too often go untold.

That is why earlier this year, the Women’s Media Center launched our Women in Entertainment Project, bringing together women who work in the entertainment industry creating television and film content. The group works to ensure that strong, female-centered stories get into the hands of women entertainment creators who can bring them to fruition.

The Women’s Media Center spoke with Warner Brothers today, urging the studio and Mr. Robinov to respond to these alleged comments and to take action to ensure that women are fairly represented in the Hollywood establishment. We have been told that Warner Brothers will be issuing a statement later today, and we look forward to sharing that response with you here.