McCormick Tribune New Media Women Entrepeneurs

A great site courtesy of Mary Fran Gleason:

http://www.newmediawomen.org/

From their site:

The McCormick Tribune New Media Women Entrepreneurs project seeks to spotlight the creative assets of women and help address issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism. In addition to providing seed funding for new women-led news ideas, it will:

* Honor a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an awards program.
* Research issues women's consumption and creation of news.
* Produce a day-long Women Entrepreneurs Summit

It is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-Lab helps news organizations and citizens use new media technologies to create fresh ways for people to participate in public life. It also administers the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, the Knight Citizen News Network and the New Voices community media grant program. Its projects are supported with grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The McCormick Tribune Foundation supports free, vigorous and diverse news media that provide citizens the vital information they need to make reasoned decisions in a democracy. The Journalism Program is committed to non-profits that support leadership in news organizations, develop future journalists and strengthen the quality of journalism.

Pew research worth reading:

The Great Divide: Female Leadership in U.S. Newsrooms (2002). Just one in five the of nation’s top female editors said they definitely wanted to move up in the news industry, and almost one in two (45 percent) are looking to change newsrooms or leave the business altogether. This report by the Pew Center and API finds that the great divide in newsrooms is not between women and men, but between two subsets of women: the career-confident and career-conflicted.

The site has a lot of great resources (and "she-sources," as they call them)... but more from that bastion of modern, post-modern, and third-wave feminism at Columbia - Barnard - later.