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."
The settlement forces the Sackler family to give up control of the Stamford, Connecticut-based business, according to the Associated Press, while the company will pay up to $12 billion over time.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation was founded in honor of chairman and CEO Frank Siller's brother, Stephen Siller, a New York City firefighter that died on 9/11.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Monday, September 9, 2019.
The former CKE Restaurants CEO believes it would be prudent for the restaurant industry to cater to millennial tastes moving toward meat alternatives.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released its list of more liveable cities, and for the second year in a row Vienna has taken the top spot. The Austrian city had a near perfect score of 99.1 percent.
Facebook Dating — a service that will pair users up based on location, listed interests, and Facebook activity — launched in the U.S. on Thursday.
Once a skill solely possessed by so-called computer nerds, now even parents and toddlers are learning how to code. Cem Eltutar, founder of Creoqode, explains how his technology uses robots and games to easily teach people how to code.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, September 5, 2019.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam, however, refused to give in to several of the protesters' other demands, including an independent commission to investigate police misconduct, the dropping of criminal charges against demonstrators, and the expansion of voting rights.
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