Organizations for

Women in Journalism

  
 
International Women's Media Foundation:
 strengthening the voice of women in the news media worldwide.
 
Association of Women Journalists:
 dedicated to supporting women in print and broadcast journalism and promoting the respectful treatment of women by the news media.
 
Association for Women in Communications:
 championing the advancement of women in all communications disciplines.
   
International Women's Writing Guild:
 network for the professional and personal empowerment of women through writing.
   
AIDDA:
professional organization to highlight the role played by women in various national economics.
   
Alicia Patterson Foundation:
provides grants to mid-career journalists to pursue stories for the foundation.
   
Women in Photojournalism
 annual conference information

 

 

 

History of Women in Journalism

 

  

 

 

The Emergence of Females as Professional Journalists:
 history of women in journalism.

 

 

Women Come to the Front:
 Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters during WWII.

 

 

Remembering the Ladies:
 a salute to the women of early radio.

 

 

Women in the Workplace Communications:
 essay and history of women in the media.

 

 

The Lily:
 a brief site of information on the publication, The Lily.
   
Women in Journalism in the 19th Century:
 short history of women in journalism.

 

 

 

Biographies

 

  

 

 

Journalism and the Mass Media:
 biographies of many women in journalism.

 

 

Women in Journalism:
 oral history project by the Washington Press Club Foundation; interviews with twenty-one women.

 

 

African American Journalists
 gallery of links to biographies

 

 

Jessie Tarbox Beals:
 biography of photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals.

 

 

Blanche Wolf Knopf:
 biography of publishing business president Blanche Wolf Knopf.
   
Nellie Bly, Pioneer Women Journalist:
 biography of Nellie Bly.
   
The Women of the Hall:
 Nellie Bly biography.
   
Nellie Bly:
 another biography
   
The American Experience-Around the World in 72 Days:
 Nellie Bly.
   
Picture of the Day:
 biography of the Lily editor, Amelia Jenks Bloomer.
   
The Women of the Hall:
Amelia Jenks Bloomer biography.
   
Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa:
 biography of Amelia Jenks Bloomer.
   
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
 biography.
   
Women in History:
biography on Amelia Jenks Bloomer.
   
Connie Chung:
biography of ABC news anchor and correspondent, Connie Chung.
   
Maria Schriver:
biography of contributing anchor to NBC's Dateline.
   
Katie Couric:
 biography of NBC News' Katie Couric.
   
Barbara Walters Profile:
 biography of Barbara Walters
   
Joan Lunden:
biography of television broadcaster, Joan Lunden.
   
Ann Curry:
biography of NBC's Ann Curry.
   
Margaret Bourke-White
 a biography and photo
   
Women of the Hall
a biography of Margaret Bourke-White
   
Margaret Bourke-White: A Great of Photography
 biography and quotations
   
Linda Wertheimer
 host of All Things Considered
   
Nina Totenberg
 legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio
   
Susan Stamberg
 broadcast journalist for NPR