Women’s eNews Celebrates 10 Years of Women-Centered Journalism

June 3, 2010 - PRLog -- On June 15, the daily nonprofit news site Women’s eNews will celebrate 10 years of international prize-winning journalism that tells women’s stories.

Women’s eNews will celebrate its 10th birthday on Sunday June 27, marking the end of a month-long online fundraising campaign asking readers to donate $1 for every year of Women’s eNews’ operation. The celebration will feature a screening of “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”, a documentary by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker, who will lead a discussion on the pair’s upcoming PBS series “Women, War and Peace”.

During the past decade, Women’s eNews has grown into an interactive news organization: distributing women’s images and narratives across the Internet in three languages, into more than 55,000 e-mail inboxes every day and online to 150,000 people every month.

Founded in 2000 by award-winning journalist Rita Henley Jensen, a former welfare mother and survivor of domestic violence, Women’s eNews weathered the recession while managing to expand its offices, redesign and relaunch its Web site and added video, audio and social media to its news reporting tools.

Women’s eNews’ reporting in the United States focuses on women’s issues that are often simply ignored by other news media. This year, special series probed African American maternal health, women and immigration and women and the economy.

The site’s daily news stories are written by regular contributors in the Middle East, India and Africa. Women’s eNews’ seasoned local reporters add on the ground insight and knowledge to Women’s eNews stories and quote women around the world who are deeply knowledgeable but rarely tapped by news media.

Women’s eNews launched the Arabic sister site www.awomensenews.org in 2003, providing news on global women’s issues for Arabic-speaking audiences around the world.

Watch Rita Henley Jensen’s special birthday message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lrEeyATHY



About Women’s eNews: www.womensenews.org is a prize-winning nonprofit news service supported by its readers and other donors. Launched in 2000, the independent media outlet provides news coverage unavailable anywhere else of substantive issues of particular concern to women and women’s views on public policy. Rita Henley Jensen is founder and editor in chief.  

For more information or to inquire about subscribing, permissions to reprint or licensing arrangements, or for interviews with Women's eNews editor in chief Rita Henley Jensen, e-mail Director of Marketing Charlotte Cooper charlotte@womensenews.org or call 212-244-1720.

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Women's eNews is the definitive source of substantive news--unavailable anywhere else--covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy.