North America | United States | Media

60 Minutes’ Lara Logan slams the ‘mostly liberal’ media for its coverage

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Logan quipped, “This interview is professional suicide for me.” Famed 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks with mainstream media, claiming news outlets are now 'mostly liberal' and have become ‘propagandists’ while covering President Trump. The South African-born foreign affairs journalist said that most of the American press is biased against Trump because journalists are overwhelmingly Democrats. She said that journalists no longer abide by reporting standards. ‘Standards are out the window, I mean you read one story after another or hear it and it’s all
Europe | Great Britain | Media

BBC makes Anne Bulford first female deputy director-general

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The prospect of a female director-general of the BBC moved a step closer today, after the corporation’s current boss appointed a woman as his deputy for the first time. Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the director-general, announced that Anne Bulford, the broadcaster’s head of finance, would become deputy director-general, making her the most senior female executive in the corporation’s history. Ms Bulford, who worked with Lord Hall during his time as chief executive of the Royal Opera House, was poached from Channel 4, where she was chief operating officer, to join the BBC in 2013.
North America | United States | Media

Pearlena Igbokwe Makes History as the First Nigerian Woman to Lead a Major U.S. TV Network

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Universal Television handpicked veteran executive producer Pearlena Igbokwe to be its president Friday, Deadline reports. The decision for the subsidiary of National Broadcasting Cable (NBC) is unprecedented, making Lagos-born, Igbokwe, not only the first Igbo Nigerian to helm a major U.S. TV studio, but also what is estimated as the first black American woman appointed to the role. Igbokwe, who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of six during the Biafran War and went on to attend the prestigious Yale University, will take over for Bela Bajarian, who exited the role last month, effective i
International | History

Global Catholic Network founder Mother Angelica has died

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Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, has died. She was 92. Known to millions of viewers simply as "Mother Angelica," the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network died Easter Sunday at the rural monastery where she lived about 45 miles north of Birmingham, according to EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw. With only $200, the nun began broadcasting a religious talk show from a TV studio put together in the monastery garage in suburban Birming
International | Media

FOR THE WOMEN WAR CORRESPONDENTS AT CBS NEWS, THE OFFICE IS A BATTLEFIELD

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On her most recent trip to Syria, CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer and her team were going to "make a break" for Aleppo. To get there, they would have to travel on a road that ISIS controls and has already shelled. "There is always a little knot in my stomach just because of that," she says when I spoke to her via phone recently. The veteran reporter has visited the war-torn country over a dozen times, giving her a sense of the land that violence has decimated. Aleppo "is a city that was once one of the great tourist destinations of the Middle East, and it is on its knees. This is
Asia | China | Activism

How one brave woman is taking on growing might of China’s censors

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This was hardly a tabloid headline, but the article was explosive anyway, with an illustration of a mouth gagged by layers of masking tape to drive home the message. China’s most powerful journalist was taking on Beijing over censorship. Within hours the article attacking government controls – “Story about adviser’s free speech comments removed from Caixin website” – had been censored itself, but not before screenshots and reports of the financial magazine’s extraordinary challenge had rippled around the internet. Editor Hu Shuli has spent decades nurturing her connections
International | Media

Femina Celebrates One Year Anniversary – 184 Countries – International Women’s Day

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Femina.com is celebrating our one year anniversary today. Launched March 8th, 2015 for International Women's Day, Femina has reached and is being read in over 184 countries. In the graphic, the darker the shade of blue, the more visitors we have had from that country. Femina.com highlights and showcases what women are doing around the world, great and small, and demonstrates that there are profoundly powerful role models everywhere you look. To celebrate we are linking to some of our favorite stories that we have covered throughout the year. THE MEN OF THE DONA COMMUNITY GAVE THE WO
North America | United States | Media

Two Female NBA Analysts Make Sports Broadcasting History

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Following a year in which ESPN's Jessica Mendoza made sports broadcasting history when she became the first woman to call a nationally televised MLB playoff game, Fox Sports commentators Stephanie Ready and Ann Meyers added their own 2016 footnote on Wednesday night when the pair became the first female NBA analysts to work the same game. The pair, which announced the Charlotte Hornets-Phoenix Suns for their separate local affiliates, have extensive histories within the game.
Middle East | Palestine | Media

Women journalists raise their voices in Gaza

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In male-dominated Palestinian society, female journalists in the Gaza Strip have been striving to get ahead. By improving the image of women in the various media outlets and increasing local coverage of women's issues, they hope to make society recognize that women are essential partners to men, strengthen the role of women's organizations and develop the role of female Palestinian journalists. In the large media sector of the Gaza Strip, which is a hotbed of events that constantly attract the world’s attention, there are only five women-focused media outlets trying to find their niche. M
Europe | Germany | Media

Bild appoints its first female editor-in-chief

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Bild, Europe’s most-read newspaper, has appointed a female editor-in-chief for the first time. Tanit Koch, 38, is taking the reins of the tabloid-style newspaper from Kai Diekmann, 51, who has become publisher, the Axel Springer group said in a statement on Thursday. The naming of a female editorial chief is a small revolution for a newspaper that has for decades been dominated by men. Bild prints 2.9m copies and says it has a daily readership of 11 million.
North America | United States | Media

Sinclair Chooses Sharyl Attkisson To Charge Into Sunday-News Arena

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Some viewers who tune into their local CBS affiliate this Sunday may think they are seeing a familiar person return to the network’s air: Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who left CBS News in 2014 after working there more than two decades, will show up this Sunday morning in proximity to John Dickerson on “Face The Nation.” Upon closer examination, something else will be taking place. Attkisson won’t appear alongside Dickerson, nor will she banter with Charles Osgood on “CBS Sunday Morning.” She will instead be seen on 162 TV stations operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group
North America | United States | Media

Stephanie Ready ‘thrilled’ to become first full-time female NBA game analyst

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Before the summer when the US Women’s National Team captured the country’s attention, Becky Hammon won a NBA Summer League title, Nancy Lieberman became an assistant coach for the Kings and Jen Welter secured a coaching internship with the Cardinals, executives at Fox Sports Southeast came to Stephanie Ready with an idea to make her the FOX Sports Southeast telecast team play-by-play analyst for the upcoming season. Which for her, was a huge promotion to her dream job. It also makes her the first woman to hold the position of full-time NBA game analyst for a team’s local broadcast.
International | Culture

Muslim women breaking stereotypes

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On a daily basis, countless stereotypes about Muslim women are circulated on and offline. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist, recently tweeted : “Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?” Angered by Dawkins’ comments, many Muslim women responded. However, Dawkins’ comment is, perhaps, proof of a larger problem: How much does the world really know about the diversity in the lives and views of Muslim women? What Dawkins said is not far from the way Muslim women are repeatedly portrayed by the mass media. Many a
Africa | Mali | Leadership

Meet Mali’s First Female Talk Show Host

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“When I look around me, I realize people need education and motivation to change their lives for the best,” says Nana Diaby, an entrepreneur and the first-ever female Malian television talk show host. Diaby, also one of 500 participants in the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, came to this conclusion after witnessing the 2012 Malian coup d’état. She aspired to build a better future for new generations of youth through dialogue on her talk show, Phiphi. As a consequence of the coup, Mali was left in a state of collapse – resulting in sanctions by surrounding n