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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.  Luckily, this is not difficult.

—Charlotte Whitton

Brain Candy

Links that just might satisfy your sweet tooth
for news and schmooze.

www.wowOwow.com: The Women on the Web offers a question of the day, good/bad hair day weather reports, conversation, ideas to change the world, plus columns from Lesley Stahl, Lily Tomlin, Peggy Noonan, Whoopi Goldberg and other women of a certain age.

Citizen Sugar: Headlines and political news from the Sugar network.

Divine Caroline: Conversations about issues of interest to women.

The Huffington Post: One of the original new media women entrepreneurs.

National Women’s Editorial Forum: Site that publishes commentaries by women on issues in the news.

She Made It: Paley Center site celebrating women pioneers in news and entertainment radio and television.

Women Daily: A busy mix of news and views from the World News Network.

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Award

NMWE will honor one new media woman entrepreneur with a $2,000 award in 2009.
Nominate a woman whose creative contribution to news inspires you.

Our Focus

NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities. Pilot projects will show what can be done. Research will tell us what more to do. And an awards program and summit will showcase women’s creative ideas. NMWE is supported by the McCormick Foundation.

Check It Out

MediaShift talks to Echo team

MediaShift’s Mark Glaser recently interviewed Echo project leaders Karyn Lu and Lila King about their plans and motivations. Read the full blog post, “Digging Deeper: Locative Media Project Aims to Collect Stories of Atlanta,” at PBS.org.

Retention of Women Journalists

Women Journalists and Retention of Women Journalists graphs