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II. Earlier Highlighted Women's Media
III. Women's Media Articles & News
IV. Women's Media History Resources
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II. Earlier Highlighted Women's Media:
Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS)
By Bonnie Carlson, WIFP
June 2008
Founded in 1986, the Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) is dedicated to broadcasting women's issues over the radio. According to its mission statement, WINGS is "an all-woman network of reporters producing and distributing news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world".
The group's biggest undertaking is its weekly news radio program. This weekly segment features international news items pertaining to women. The program's topics range from a piece on Sonia Jacobs, the only female death row inmate of Florida, to an anti-violence speech given by Chung Hyun Kyung, a Korean feminist theologian. WINGS also accepts guest contributions to its radio program in the form of written or recorded news stories. An archive of past radio segments is hosted by the University of Sought Florida Department of Women's Studies and is available through the WINGS website.
Once a year WINGS also produces an hour-long radio program called the Women's News Roundup to feature the "hottest women's radio news stories of the year". Recordings of this annual broadcast are also archived and available online.
WINGS Exectuive Producer, Frieda Werden, is a WIFP associate. For more information visit www.wings.org
Women News Network
By Amy Buck, WIFP
June 2008
The Women News Network (WNN), started and directed by Lys Anzia, has a goal of bringing international women's news that is often not covered by mainstream media to anyone with an Internet connection. WNN writes articles, and features video and radio clips that apply to the interests of women. Anzia began WNN in 2006 after being inspired by a writing assignment that was meant to cover "global women's news." From this broad topic, Anzia was inspired to more frequently cover women's stories.
On the website (womennewsnetwork.net), there is an article archive that features one or two articles per month. These articles feature a wide variety of topics and are written either by WNN staff or an associate. WNN also highlights articles from outside sources in their Global Breaking News Portal. A new feature of the website that utilizes odiogo.com allows for select articles to be downloaded as a sound file. Odiogo.com puts text into a voice format so that women can listen to these articles on the go or away from the computer.
The Women News Network Video Collection features 432 videos submitted to the Network. To browse through these videos, you have the option of searching through the Most Watched, the Most Watched This Week, or a variety of key words including: children of the world today; educate the world; empowering women; the F word itself (feminist news); international women’s rights; and many more. The videos are further organized to feature the most recent video submissions before the older submissions.
The Women News Network Radio Collection, like the video collection, features radio clips that concern women worldwide. Specific clips can be found and played through live stream on the website, or listeners can subscribe to the WNN radio podcast that will automatically update your computer’s radio clips when they are released.
Through this website, WNN is able to bring news concerning women to an international audience. With their easy to navigate design, articles are easyto find and read, as are the videos to watch, and the radio to listen to. The multimedia focus of the website allows women everywhere to watch, listen and read important news that may not be covered by mass media in the U.S. or elsewhere.
Women News Network
Email Address: Womennews2000 [at] yahoo.com
U.S. Phone Number to the WNN Colorado Office: (011) 303 241 2555
Website: http://womennewsnetwork.net/
Description: A Multimedia website designed for International Women looking for International News updates.
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The following are a few more women's media that indicated
to us that "failure is impossible:" See the Directory
of Women's Media on this web site for a full listing.
Rain And Thunder, P.O. Box 813, Northampton, MA 01061. Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, a quarterly publication welcoming women's writing. Seeking contributions; news, reviews, artwork, cartoons, photos.
Media Report to Women PO Box 180, Colton's Point, MD 20626-0180. 301-769-3899 fax 301-769-3558 website: http://www.mediareporttowomen.com/ Quarterly, covering all the issues concerning women and media. Edited by Sheila J. Gibbons. Founded in 1972 by Dr. Donna Allen, Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, now published by Communication Research Associates, Inc. Continues to be a most important periodical for women in media and those concerned with this central issue in our lives. Media Report to Women is also a resource for all those in mass media who want to know what women are doing and thinking about the communications media. Women and media courses in universities will find these issues invaluable.
(These are highlighted media. See the Directory of Women's Media on this web site for a full listing.)
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