Navigating the Pink Ghetto

Journalism and Gender Politics

Monday 11 June, 2012
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0/Rsvp

New America
199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B

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Topics around gender politics, family issues and women’s health are crucial mainstays of journalism, so why do issues pertaining to women get sidelined? And how can so-called “women’s topics” get an intellectually sound, politically savvy hearing in a media world that often wants a soft focus on hard issues? Hear from tough women journalists spilling red ink on pink topics, and how they manage the gender divide in serious ideas-based reporting.

Featuring

EMILY BAZELON
Senior editor, Slate
Contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine
Author of a forthcoming book about bullying, Sticks and Stones, to be published early next spring

ANNIE MURPHY PAUL
Author, Origins and Brilliant
Contributing writer, TIME magazine
Contributor, NPR’s MindShift.com

PAMELA PAUL
Author, The Starter Marriage and The Future of Matrimony, Pornified, and Parenting, Inc.
Features editor and children’s book editor, The New York Times Book Review

KATE ORENSTEIN
Founder and CEO, The OpEd Project
Author, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked
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