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A Night of a Thousand Stars at the 37th Annual Gracie Awards Gala AWM Share    
Last week, Hollywood's stars shone a little brighter as the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) descended upon the historic Beverly Hilton Hotel, for the 37th Annual Gracie Awards. 2012 National Gracie Award winners were honored in a star‐studded gala hosted by Emmy® Award‐winning actress Angela Kinsey. The black‐tie Gala attracted the best and brightest in the industry including: Premiere Network's Delilah; Loretta Devine of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy"; Best‐selling author and Food Network's Giada de Laurentiis; Academy‐Award winner Sally Field; NBC News/Today Show's Savannah Guthrie; Angie Harmon of TNT's "Rizzoli & Isles"; RLTV's Florence Henderson; Constance Marie of ABC Family's "Switched at Birth"; Academy‐Award winner Marlee Matlin; E! and Style Network's Giuliana Rancic; Shaun Robinson of "Access Hollywood"; Zoraida Sambolin of CNN's "Early Start"; Sarah Shahi of USA Network's "Fairly Legal"; ESPN's Hannah Storm; Ariel Winter of ABC's "Modern Family" ... and hundreds more. More 
Katie Couric to Sarah Palin: Let's talk again Orlando Sentinel Share
When Katie Couric starts her daytime show in the fall, she would love to interview Sarah Palin. "She has an open invitation to come talk to me," Couric said recently. "I'm not sure she'd be interested, but she'd certainly be welcome. She's a fascinating figure not only on the political scene but in popular culture." More Geena Davis battles media's portrayal of women The Tennesseean Share
 Fighting gender stereotypes in today's culture is an uphill battle for parents of young children, Academy Award-winning actor Geena Davis recently told a Nashville audience. Davis spoke at Lipscomb University to raise awareness about the portrayal of women and girls in the media.
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'TODAY' takes home three Gracie Awards AWM Share
The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation presented "TODAY" with three Gracie Awards last week for programming created for women, by women and about women. The broadcast received the award for Outstanding Talk Show, Savannah Guthrie took home the award for Outstanding Individual Achievement and the TODAY Moms blog picked up the honor for Outstanding Blog. "TODAY" was on the scene and has video from the event. More Huffington Post gets 1st publisher amid broader AOL changes Advertising Age Share
In his company's most recent earnings call, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he wanted to restructure the company in a way that made individual content brands within the AOL portfolio more responsible for their businesses. AOL is making a series of changes that seem designed in part to do that, starting with the appointment of Janet Balis as the Huffington Post Media Group's first publisher. She had been senior vice president for sales strategy, marketing and partnerships for AOL Advertising since October. More Skinnygirl in 'Drink Like a Lady' campaign MediaPost News Share
Skinnygirl Cocktails is looking to build on its considerable momentum with new brand extensions and a new campaign dubbed "Drink Like a Lady." The multimillion-dollar campaign, spanning television, print and digital, represents a tripling of the brand's 2011 marketing investment, according to parent Beam Inc. More 
Forbes contributor deletes Sheryl Sandberg post after deemed sexist Poynter Share
Forbes.com contributor Eric Jackson recently wrote a controversial post comparing the media attention that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets to that of former Marimba CEO Kim Polese 15 years ago. Readers accused Jackson of sexism, saying his post was "dreadful," "ridiculous" and ignored all that Sandberg has achieved. By the next morning, Jackson had deleted the post and written an apology. The incident raises important questions about transparency and Forbes.com's publishing process, in which freelance contributors can publish and delete posts without input from editors. More If video sites could act like cable companies The New York Times Share
Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month. What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a "multichannel video programming distributor," or M.V.P.D. When that mouthful of a phrase was coined decades ago, it was pretty easy to identify what was a multichannel distributor — any cable or satellite company — and just as important, what wasn't. But the Internet is changing that — so profoundly, in fact, that the Federal Communications Commission is now rethinking even the definition of the word "channel." More 
Marla Provencio takes ABC entertainment marketing helm Advertising Age Share
ABC has named one of its longtime marketing executives, Marla Provencio, to the new role of chief marketing officer for the Disney broadcast network's prime-time, daytime and late-night entertainment schedule. For Provencio, the move is the culmination of a 31-year career at the network, where she has done everything from helping to devise "Desperate Housewives" dry-cleaning bags that read "Everyone has a little dirty laundry" to promoting the series finale of "Lost" without releasing any new footage that might spoil the program for hardcore fans. More NBCU expands Malfa's ad sales oversight to include Style Media Multichannel News Share
NBCUniversal announced it has given Susan Malfa oversight of ad sales for Style Media, to go along with Bravo and Oxygen Media and Women at NBCU. Malfa's new position is senior vice president, ad sales, Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style Media and Women at NBCU, where she has spent the past five years. Style Media became part of NBCU after Comcast acquired the programmer from General Electric. More 
It's 2012 — Why is opinion writing still mostly male? Columbia Journalism Review Share
Women wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation's leading newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal — between Sept. 15 and Dec. 7, 2011, according to a byline survey conducted by Taryn Yaeger of The OpEd Project, an organization that aims to diversify public debate. More 
AWM launches new Career Center; free resume uploads for job seekers AWM Share
The Alliance for Women in Media is pleased to announce the launch of the brand new AWM Career Center. Both members and nonmembers can use the AWM Career center to reach qualified candidates. Employers can post jobs online, search for qualified candidates based on specific job criteria and create an online resume agent to email qualified candidates daily. They also benefit from online reporting that provides job activity statistics. For job seekers, AWM Career Center is a free service that provides access to employers and jobs in the media industry. In addition to posting their resumes, job seekers can browse and view available jobs based on their criteria and save those jobs for later review if they choose. Job seekers can also create a search agent to provide email notifications of jobs that match their criteria. More |
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