Voices of women media leaders

Voices of Women Media Leaders is based primarily on a panel held by the International Women’s Media Foundation at the Carnegie Corporation of New York on Sept. 15, 2003. The panel brought together top women executives from major news organizations to discuss their roles as media leaders, as well as the trends and challenges faced by their profession. The lineup of panelists was made up of seven U.S. news executives from the Associated Press, CBS News, Knight Ridder Digital, National Public Radio, Newsday, NBC and the Missouri School of Journalism.

The panelists interacted with an audience of women from the print, online and television media. To supplement the panel, the IWMF also sought the views of international women journalists via phone and e-mail interviews, asking them to respond to issues raised during the panel. These interviews were conducted with dozens of women working in media throughout the world, from Lamees Al-Hadidi, managing editor of Al Alam Al Youm in Cairo, to Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times. The result is this report, Voices of Women Media Leaders.

Publisher: IWMF
Year of Publication: 2001