Aloud Blog
July 13, 2012
New York Women in Communications member Dianne Devitt writes about her reaction to Matrix honoree Ann Curry’s dismissal from Today.
On June 29, 2012, NBC’s Today showed us an example of the science of re-generativity in the form of how low we can...
July 1, 2012
Rise of the Female Entrepreneur
Rodeena Stephens is communications director for The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York and a marketing and social media consultant. She organizes and facilitates NYWICI's Twitter Chats at #nywicichat (every other...
June 23, 2012
Christiane Amanpour has always stood out in my mind as a very visible and successful emblem of women war correspondents. Her coverage of Iran on CNN has colored my perception of what women reporters are able to do. But it wasn’t so long ago that...
June 18, 2012
Deanna Utroske serves on New York Women in Communications Inc.’s Integrated Marketing & Communications Committee. She also regularly posts to Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest on behalf of NYWICI as part of her contribution to the Social Media...
June 12, 2012
In honor of Katharine Graham, who would have been 95 years old on June 16, we're re-posting Gail Griffin's March 2010 tribute to the late publisher of the Washington Post. Her steady hand guided it through some of its most memorable triumphs, from...
June 4, 2012
Rodeena Stephens is communications director for The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York and a marketing and social media consultant. She organizes and facilitates NYWICI's Twitter Chats at #nywicichat (every other Tuesday from 8 to 9 p.m.). Rodeena...
May 28, 2012
This post marks the launch of the new Aloud. Three co-editors – Giuliana Lonigro, Rodeena Stephens and Deanna Utroske – will fill Aloud with topical posts on communications, careers and other issues women care about. We kick things off with Giuliana...
April 29, 2012
This is the last day of April and, therefore, the final day of National Poetry Month for 2012. Today's poet: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935).
Alice was born in New Orleans to middle class parents, her heritage a mixture of African American,...
April 23, 2012
It’s National Poetry Month and, thanks to wonderful iPhone apps from The Poetry Foundation and Poetry Daily, I’ve been reading heaps of work by poets who are new to me. Brenda Cárdenas is one of them.
The Wisconsin-born poet, a professor of...
March 27, 2012
As the War on Women rages all around us, with attacks lobbed at everything from our reputations to our reproductive systems, I often find myself wishing Bella Abzug were here to rally women to the barricades with her big, bold voice.
I especially...
March 23, 2012
We've remained patient these past 17 months for a new episode of "Mad Men" and this Sunday, the wait is over. Millions will tune to see what will happen at the office of Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce.
In many ways, the world of "Mad Men" is a far...
March 13, 2012
If you haven’t heard of author and fashion designer Elizabeth Hawes, it’s probably because she was blacklisted for her allegedly “Communist” work with American labor unions. J. Edgar Hoover opened up an FBI file on Hawes in 1940, years earlier than...
March 9, 2012
Invisible Children, a movement seeking to end the conflict in Uganda and to stop the abduction of children for use as child soldiers, created and released a 30 minute film, "KONY 2012." The video aims to raise awareness, leading to the arrest of...
March 8, 2012
March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day. We can think of no better way to commemorate both than with Linda Levi's profile of an international woman who succeeded in a field dominated by men: Lily Renee Wilhelm.
Comic...
February 24, 2012
The 84th Annual Academy Awards will be viewed by millions of people all over the world this Sunday. Awards will be given, speeches will be made and the champagne will flow. However, winning the little gold man statue is not the only coveted trophy...