Nonprofit launches journalism operation to cover women’s issues
This column appeared Sept. 4, 2001, in the Online Journalism Review. Here’s the version on the OJR site.
Rita Henley Jensen, editor-in-chief of Women’s Enews, makes no apologies for her news service’s tilt on the news. “We do have an agenda,” she says. “It’s a pro-woman agenda.”
Still not widely known, Women’s Enews is one of those fascinating experiments made possible only because of the Web. Launched in June 2000 by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, the news service (at www.womensenews.com) is run by a small staff of professional journalists. [Read more…] about A news service with a women’s agenda