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The honorees:
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Christiane Amanpour, Chief
International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN
International’s nightly interview program Amanpour,
and a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News.
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Sheila C. Johnson,
Founding Partner of Black Entertainment Television; CEO
of Salamander Hotels and Resorts; Ms. Johnson is Vice
Chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment and
President and Managing Partner of the WNBA’s Washington
Mystics. She is the only African-American woman to have
ownership in three professional sports teams, including
the NBA’s Washington Wizards and the NHL’s Washington
Capitals; Executive
Producer of four documentary films including Kicking
It, A
Powerful Noise, She
Is the Matador, The
Other City and
Executive Producer of the newly released feature film
Lee Daniels' The
Butler.
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Maria Teresa Kumar,
Emmy- nominated contributor for MSNBC, and President and
CEO of Voto Latino.
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Makers, a 3-hour
documentary event, Women Who Make America, plus
a digital platform—the largest video archive of women
ever assembled, showcasing thousands of compelling
stories--so women will no longer be left out of
history.
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Mary Thom (in
memoriam), author, Ms. Magazine editor, and Online
Features Editor for The Women's Media Center
The Women’s Media
Awards recognize and honor game-changers for women in
media. By deciding who gets to talk, what creates the
debate, who writes, and what is important enough to be
visible, the media shapes our understanding of who we are
and what we can be. The Women’s Media Awards shine a light
on this important issue.
Pat Mitchell,
President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media and Founding
Co- Chair of The Women’s Media Center, will
present the Pat
Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award to Christiane
Amanpour. “I admire Christiane for so many reasons…she’s
brave, courageous, committed, compassionate, and approaches
her life and her work with unusual vigor and discipline,”
says Pat Mitchell. “Through a career characterized by
reports from the most dangerous places on earth to the
offices of the most powerful leaders and policy makers,
Christiane’s insistent pursuit of the truth has shaped a
better understanding of the world in times where that
understanding has been needed most. Her body of work as a
journalist and the values that clearly define her choices as
a journalist and as a woman, inspire and serve as a model
for all journalists, and all women, on their path to a life
of purpose and to work that matters and makes a difference.”
Jane Fonda, two-time
Academy® Award-winning actress, humanitarian, activist and
Co-Founder of The Women’s Media Center, will present the Social
Media Award. The honoree
is selected online by a group of ten distinguished digital
journalists, bloggers, and thought leaders. "Social media
has brought news and differing perspectives to the world and
changed the conversation,” says Jane Fonda. "It is where the
power to make significant change exists today."
Robin Morgan,
best-selling author and award winning poet,
Co-Founder of The Women’s Media Center, and Host of WMC’s
Live with Robin Morgan, will present the Multi-Media
Award for Groundbreaking Contribution
to Women, History and America to the acclaimed PBS
series MAKERS, The landmark documentary
and digital platform featuring the largest video archive of
thousands of women and their compelling stories.
“It’s fitting that
the first ever Women’s Media Center Multi-Media Award goes
to MAKERS,” says Robin Morgan. “This project--a decade in
the making--is an incredible, multi-faceted
accomplishment. It finally makes visible the U.S. Women’s
Movement in all its power and diversity, and by so doing
strengthens both journalism and democracy itself.”
Gloria Steinem,
Co-Founder of The Women’s Media Center, will present the Visionary
Role Model and Corporate Leader Award to Sheila
C. Johnson. "Sheila is a true trailblazer in the world
of media," says Gloria Steinem. "She has used her power and
vision to change the landscape of media as we know it."
Carol Jenkins, former
President of the Women’s Media Center, will
present the Carol
Jenkins Emerging Journalist Award to Maria
Teresa Kumar. “I
have been so impressed by Maria Teresa, a deft and credible
participant in news analysis, ever since we met,” says Carol
Jenkins. “We're proud to say she is one of ours-- a
graduate of WMC's Progressive Women's Voices Media
Leadership program. She has used her command of the media to
build one of this country's best organizations, while at the
same time exhibiting a consistently reliable expertise in
political, social justice and economic matters. Hers is an
invaluable voice in media.”
Martha Nelson, Editor-in-Chief
of Time Inc., Co-Chair of the Women’s Media Awards, and
a former Women’s Media Center honoree, will present the Mary
Thom Art of Editing Award to
the family of Mary
Thom. “I am
pleased to help introduce this new WMC award for editing --
a rare opportunity to recognize the career of a brilliant
editor and to highlight the often unsung work of editors
across all media,” says Martha Nelson. “Great editors are
like conductors, who can coach and coax an individual to
greater performance at the same time they work to
orchestrate the whole. This award brings that complex role
and the individuals that conceive, nurture and shape
stories, working tirelessly without bylines or
applause, into the spotlight.”
The Co-Chairs for
The 2013 Women’s Media Awards:
Jane Fonda, Robin
Morgan, Gloria
Steinem, Gayle
King, Loreen
Arbus, Pat
Mitchell, Martha
Nelson, Carol
Jenkins, Jewelle
Bickford, Lauren
Embrey, Jodie
Evans and
Gloria Feldt.
The 2013 Women’s
Media Award Honorary Committee:
Christine Baranski, Candice
Bergen, Suzanne
Braun Levine, Tina
Brown, Jennifer
Buffett, Graydon
Carter, Gail
Collins, David
Corn, Ann
Curry, Rosario
Dawson, Laura
Dern, Linda
Ellerbee, Sally
Field, Sandra
Fluke, Maya
Harris, Anne
Hathaway, Goldie
Hawn, Sarah
Jones, Catherine
Keener, Christine
Lahti, Diane
Lane, Cindi
Leive, Andrea
Mitchell, Geneva
Overholser, Anna
Quindlen,Cecile
Richards, Marlene
Sanders, Regina
Kulik Scully, Lesley
Stahl, Martha
Stewart, Michael
Stipe, Marlo
Thomas, Kathleen
Turner, Katrina
vanden Heuvel, Barbara
Walters, Maggie
Wilderotter and Julie
Zeilinger.
The Women’s Media
Center
The Women’s Media
Center works to make women visible and powerful in media.
The Women’s Media Center trains women experts to be in the
media; does groundbreaking research and reporting on media
inclusion and accuracy; produces media style guides, such as
the first ever to cover reproductive issues (especially
important now that reproductive freedom is under attack in
states across the country); and documents and reports
sexualized violence as a tool of war in Syria and other
conflict regions. Its publication, The
Status of Women in U.S. Media Report, is now the
industry standard on where women stand, and serves as a map
to where women need to go.
“The Women’s Media
Center exists to change the status of women in media.
Because 51 percent of our population is women, and only 3
percent of all clout positions in media are held by women,
the Women’s Media Center Awards were created to honor
champions for women who use their media platforms to tell
the stories, facts, and solutions crucial to all viewers,
and to advance opportunities for women in media,” says Julie
Burton, President of the Women’s Media Center. “Because
media tells our stories and influences the role of women in
every part of society, we are proud to honor these amazing
women who set the standard for what media should look like
when it gives voice to the female half of the country.”
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