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 FCC Plan to Allow Greater Media Consolidation

October 18, 2007 – The following statement from Carol Jenkins, president of the Women’s Media Center, is in response to reported plans from the FCC to relax media ownership rules, in what The New York Times calls “a big victory for some executives of media conglomerates (“Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners,” 10/18/07):

“On behalf of this country's ‘Invisible Majority,’ the Women's Media Center opposes FCC Chair Kevin J. Martin's reported ‘plan’ to loosen media ownership. In our country, the invisible majority are women--the nearly 52 percent of the population who own less than 3 percent of radio and television stations. Instead of looking for ways to help three or four giant companies get even larger, the FCC should be spending its time assisting women and minorities in participating in our publicly owned airwaves.

“When I testified at the FCC Hearing on media ownership earlier this year in Florida, one of several hearings held around the country, the idea that women have an important and distinct stake in this discussion seemed to come as a surprise to FCC representatives. That is probably why almost all key speakers were men--and why the few women present addressed a nearly empty audience.

“Women hold an estimated 3 percent of positions that are considered ‘clout’ positions in the media. Until women participate fully in our media, we can’t participate fully in our democracy. The increasingly centralized media ownership structure that the FCC is creating is partly to blame. The proposed rules do nothing to include women and minorities, and until they do, should be opposed.”

Jenkins full statement from the April 30, 2007, FCC Hearing is available at http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/100907_s.html.