Welcome to our BRAND NEW website!

This is a very exciting time in the life of the Alliance for Women in Media and our Foundation (AWM/F)! As an organization with a rich history of more than 60 years, our leadership is proud to unveil a new website with fresh ways to engage and interact with AWM/F. Similar to your own personal and professional evolution, AWM is expanding upon our heritage as we capitalize the amazing opportunities afforded through new technologies. It is indeed the “new media frontier!”

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Virtual reality is no boys club

Samsung is literally giving it away. Mark Zuckerberg is betting on it. What could be creating such interest that major tech companies are willing to go all in? Nothing less than virtual reality. The fantasy that we’ve been reading about for years might finally be, well, real – virtually.

On Tuesday evening, March 1, a group of women and a few guys gathered in the New York City offices of Discovery Communications to experience the reality behind the virtual reality hype. Spoiler alert: it’s not hype.

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A Morning Coffee and a Mentor

The first day of college classes is like being transported to another planet. There’s an overwhelming amount of students and professors rushing by on the sidewalk, eagerly greeting friends and chatting about their schedules. It’s easy to get lost in the noise. Sometimes, all you need is someone who will listen and guide you through the maze.

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Merci to the Media

I was sitting in the hotel room in London when I decided to flip on the telly Friday night. It had been a long week – multiple flights and too many meetings – and I figured watching some British entertainment would allow me to relax.

18 Dead in Paris Shooting…100 Hostages…Bombing at International Football Match…

I lived in Paris from 2004-2006. I pictured the cafes, the busy Friday night family outings. I could hear the jazz and assorted languages stream from the venues. For as much as Paris is quintessentially the capital of France, it is also one of those places that truly belongs to the world. It is the City of Love.

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Gracies Logo – A New Spin After 40 Years

After 40 years of honoring outstanding programming by, for and about women, it was time for The Gracies to get a new look.

Enter Tomek Sadurski, an artist specializing in drawing with an eye for diverse media such as animation, theatre and technology. His work has been in international publications like L ́OFFICIEL Paris, Süddeutsche Zeitung, TASCHEN books – Fashion Illustration NOW, 25 Magazine, Folha de Sao Paulo, ELLE, Vanity Fair and many more. He has worked on campaigns and exclusive projects for companies like Vodafone, Ford, Audi Konzept Design Studio, VW, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Sony and Villeroy&Boch to name a few. The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation was lucky to get him involved!

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Why the Alliance for Women in Media is Important and Relevant to Females of All Ages

During the Alliance for Women in Media’s Women in Sports Breakfast, a photographer captured this photo of 2015 honoree Lauren McHale and her daughter.

To me, this important picture says it all: a revered sports media veteran lovingly gazed at by her proud daughter.

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Lauren at the 2015 Gracies Luncheon where I was awarded an Emerging Voices Scholarship from Ford Motor Company Fund and the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. Lauren’s company, Katz Sports Media, was one of the sponsors at the event and was represented by a number of female employees. Winning this prestigious scholarship from Ford provided me not only with much-needed funds, it also enabled me to network with high-power women in communications.

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High Heels and Higher Goals: Women in the Workforce

As a young woman about to start my professional career, I am constantly proving myself to others. When I meet someone for the first time, I am not concerned with what they see, but what they don’t. Handshake, check. Suit, check. But did I remember an extra pen?

I don’t know who made this a universal practice, but it seems like women with the same education and skillset as their male colleagues have to try much harder to seek approval in the workforce. Even now, with the advancements women have made over the past century, there is still a lingering element of doubt.

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Women Shine in Sports Media

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015, ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza became the first woman to call a nationally televised major league baseball playoff game. An accomplished Olympic and All-American softball star, Mendoza has been an analyst with ESPN since 2007, so her rise to the top in baseball broadcasting should surprise no one.

But it did.

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The Courage to Create

I have always been a writer, but there was a time when I was afraid to share my work. Words are powerful. I realized this from the start. I just didn’t know how others would view the words I had written. But then I realized something. I don’t write to be perfect. I write because I have something to share about an experience that didn’t have a movie-script ending. I write to heal, and others can benefit from hearing my story.

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My Current Media Obsession

As parents, my husband and I try to limit our daughter’s screen time to mostly educational children’s shows such as “Sesame Street” and “Super Why!” But let’s be honest here: there are days where work and school completely does us in and we want to do nothing more than zone out in front of the television. Herein lies my current media obsession: finding entertaining-TV-shows-that-we-can-watch-in-front-of-our-children-but-do-not-feature-any-sort-of-cartoon-character-or-singing. You would think it would be an easy task considering we have more accessible channels now compared to 30 years ago. Yet, gone are the days of “Full House,” “Mork & Mindy” and “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” that used to compete for screen time at my parents’ house growing up.

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