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October 13, 2010
Green marketing is a hot industry for media professionals, but many of the campaigns in this niche are tepid at best, according to the findings of a September 2010 report published by Verdantix, an independent research firm specializing in...
October 7, 2010
On October 12, Eman Kassem Sliman will participate in NYWICI’s panel discussion, Women Covering War: The Human Dimension. Eman is one of Israel’s leading Arab journalists; she has been a broadcaster and producer of political, economic, cultural and...
September 27, 2010
September 14, 2010 was a big day for techies and Twitter enthusiasts all over the world. A surprise announcement by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams at the company’s San Francisco headquarters revealed the launch of a “new Twitter,” along with a...
September 22, 2010
September 25 marks the start of Banned Books Week 2010. Given the recent threats to burn the Qur'an, this annual event, which brings attention to the importance of the First Amendment and the freedom to read what we choose, is particularly well-...
September 3, 2010
A while ago a group of NYWICI women talked about writing a post for this blog called Ads That Shouldn’t Exist in 2010. The idea was to call out advertising that subtly promotes outdated and damaging gender stereotypes. But today I came across an ad...
August 26, 2010
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union...Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
~Susan B. AnthonyAugust 26 is an...
August 18, 2010
One of the most popular emailed stories on The New York Times website this week follows 5 neuroscientists who leave their digital devices behind as they journey deep into the wilderness for a week. I didn’t need to read to the end to know that some...
August 12, 2010
I’m a recovering doormat. For years I believed it was necessary to go out of my way to please everyone so they’d like me. When I was one of the first women to start an independent record label, I had to get taken seriously in an industry that was...
August 6, 2010
Although it’s impossible to keep up with the endless Internet bounty of fascinating news about women and communications, we are doing our best to point out worthwhile reading. For example…
In a fun Newsweek post, Susanna Schrobsdorff wonders, "What...
August 1, 2010
BP’s mid-July announcement that the Gulf oil spill was capped left media outlets speculating about the fate of @BPGlobalPR, the controversial Twitter user with more than 185,000 followers. During the past three months, @BPGlobalPR has moonlighted as...
July 23, 2010
We've scoured the Internet for interesting stories and found a bumper crop. Here are 5 articles to keep you thinking until next week, when we'll post 5 more.
On Forbes.com's ForbesWoman Views blog, Carol Kinsey Goman writes about Ten Body Language...
July 12, 2010
With the humidity hovering at hellish levels, it's a great time to stretch out in air-conditioned splendor and pop open a good book (either on Kindle, iPad, Nook or even dead trees). With everyone looking for some good summer reads, here are some...
June 24, 2010
Every year on June 16 people all over the world celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce’s great novel Ulysses takes place. Here in New York, for example, Symphony Space hosts a reading of Ulysses excerpts by bold-face names from many...
June 16, 2010
As the Director of PR at The New Victory Theater, I’m often asked to talk to our college apprentices about what it’s like being a publicist in the arts. Inevitably, someone asks how I got my start and at this point the discussion evolves from PR 101...
June 13, 2010
The article below — written by feminist, author and former Planned Parenthood Foundation of America CEO Gloria Feldt — was originally posted on the feminist blog Women, Girls, Ladies.
Recently I was at the SeeJaneDo conference where I heard this...