At the helm of the top media outlets in the nation are all men. The Washington Post's Media Columnist Margaret Sullivan explains the conditions facing women in news, and ways to close the gender gap in newsroom mastheads.
"I think there are more women in powerful positions in media than there ever have been before," says Sullivan. "The problem is at the very, very top of those very powerful news organizations it's pretty rare for a woman to have broken through."
Men wrote 52 percent of bylined news articles and opinion pieces about reproductive issues in the nation’s 12 most widely circulated newspapers and news wires. Meanwhile, women penned 37 percent, according to the 2017 Women's Media Center Report. Men won 84 percent of a century’s worth of Pulitzer Prizes, while women won only 16 percent according to Women's Media Center.
On how the #MeToo movement has impacted newsrooms, Sullivan says, "to say this whole thing gone too far is really misguided." She goes on to say, "I think what's really going to rule the day is that this major reckoning we're having in our society and how extremely important it is and how it was brought about by courageous journalists and courageous women."
Actor, Kendrick Sampson, talks the need for change in Hollywood and the mission to urge the industry to divest from police.
As audiences move away from traditional TV, digital media made its pitch for advertising dollars at the 2020 NewFronts.
The European Union has announced it will reopen its borders to travelers from 14 countries, but most Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due to soaring coronavirus infections in the U.S.
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AMC said Monday that it would open approximately 450 U.S. locations on July 30 and the remaining 150 the following week.
Health departments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scrambling to bolster their ranks.
The Ryders Alley Trencher-Fed Society, R.A.T.S. for short, have been prowling NYC for at least three decades for rodents, and their services are required more than ever due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era.
Jill and Carlo recap a weekend chock full of news, including the latest pandemic headlines, a bombshell report in the New York Times about Russia, and Facebook's growing advertiser problem.
President of BET Networks, Scott Mills, talks being the first network to host an award show amid the coronavirus pandemic and celebrating the networks 40th anniversary.
