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Awards:
An independent news agency, Women's eNews and Editor in Chief Rita Henley Jensen have won 27 awards in its six years of operations. Some examples: Jensen is a recipient of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni award; the site's resident cartoonist Ann Telnaes won the National Press Foundation's 2004 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons and the Pulitzer prize; the National Federation of Press Women awarded Henley Jensen and the site's writers multiple prizes, including Best Web site; the University of Michigan awarded Henley Jensen and the site its Michigan Media Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Women and Gender.
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History:
Women's eNews became independent on January 1, 2002. Women's eNews grew out of a 1996 roundtable discussion conceived and funded by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. After additional research on the need for a media outlet to distribute news of concern to women and the opportunity to provide women's voices to commercial media, NOW Legal Defense underwrote in 1999 the creation of Women's eNews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. Two years later, NOW Legal Defense determined Women's eNews could sustain its success and stand on its own.
Women's eNews has been widely tapped by other media from coast to coast and around the globe, from such leading media outlets as The New York Times, PBS, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Buffalo News, San Jose Mercury News, the Birmingham News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Spokane Spokesman-Leader, NPR and MSNBC to newspapers in Kuala Lampur and the Philippines. [Go to What Editors Are Saying about Women's eNews page]
Women's eNews is also available in Arabic:
Women's eNews launched in April 2003 its Arabic language version of Women's eNews. The site has drawn rave reviews and attracted the attention of the New York Times business section.
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Licensing:
For a licensing agreement or permission to reprint or repost any content from Women's eNews please send an e-mail to permissions@womensenews.org.
Who Funds Us
We receive financial support from our readers, private donors, commercial publications that republish our material, and from:
- The Bydale Foundation
- The Carnegie Corporation of New York
- The Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara S. Miller Foundation
- The Ford Foundation
- The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- The Barbara Lee Family Foundation
- Mary Kay Inc.
- The Ms. Foundation for Women
- The Open Society Institute
- The Rockefeller Family Fund
- The Sister Fund
- The Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation
- The United Nations Foundation
- The Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention
- Working Assets
