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
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
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