Women Do News sponsored its first edit-a-thon in 2019 in New York City with support from Take The Lead. Since then, we have trained writers and editors through coaching and events, partnering with allies at universities and journalism organizations.
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Upcoming
- June 2nd, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
June 2nd, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust.Want to join the board? Message Ariam in Slack!
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- July 7th, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
July 7th, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust.Want to join the board? Message Ariam in Slack!
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- July 27th, 2022
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Women Do News at AAJA
July 27th, 2022 11:00 AM PDT - 12:00 PM PDT
Los Angeles, CA, USAMore to come, but we'll be at the annual conference of the Asian American Journalists Association in Los Angeles. Registration and more information here: https://www.aaja22.org/
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- August 4th, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
August 4th, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- September 1st, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
September 1st, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- October 6th, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
October 6th, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- November 3rd, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
November 3rd, 2022 2:00 PM PDT - 3:00 PM PDT
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- December 1st, 2022
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Women Do News Board meeting
December 1st, 2022 2:00 PM PST - 3:00 PM PST
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- January 5th, 2023
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Women Do News Board meeting
January 5th, 2023 2:00 PM PST - 3:00 PM PST
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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- February 2nd, 2023
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Women Do News Board meeting
February 2nd, 2023 2:00 PM PST - 3:00 PM PST
Board members, find the agenda in our shared To-Doist and message Angilee in Slack to adjust. Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!
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Past events
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Changing the Face of News
Gather, a a collaborative project led by the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism & Communication, hosted Women Do News and The 19th for a lightning chat about women in media. Agora’s Regina Lawrence moderated a conversation with Alexandra Smith of The 19th and Women Do News board members Angilee Shah […]
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AEJMC 2022 Midwinter Conference: Correcting the record
Board member Jareen Imam and board chair Angilee Shah led a workshop at the AEJMC 2022 Midwinter Conference. What’s AEJMC, you ask? It’s the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the organization for educators, students and media professionals who are training the next generation of journalists. If you are signed up for Women […]
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JAWS Edit-a-thon: Increasing equality of women journalists on Wikipedia
Biographies of female and non-binary journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, which can lead to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition. Women Do News, an organization dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of female journalists online, wants change. In this event, we showed Jaws and Women Do News conference-goers how to join the movement. […]
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Hacks/Hacker London: ’Increasing equality of women journalists on Wikipedia’
Biographies of female and non-binary journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, which can lead to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition. Women Do News, an organization dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of female journalists online, wants to change that issue. Board member Jareen Imam presented.
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Citations Needed! 🔎
Need help finding published articles and citations about amazing women journalists who deserve a Wikipedia page? Finding those links to published works about the journalists is one of the toughest parts of creating a Wikipedia entry that stands up to scrutiny. Mary Nahorniak, Google News Lab Teaching Fellow, presented to give us super tips for […]
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What does strategic leadership look like?
Our board chair Angilee Shah joined Take The Lead to talk about different forms of leadership and the genesis of Women Do News on July 28, 2021. Watch the talk on YouTube.
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ONA 21: Fighting Erasure
Historical exclusion and systemic bias in media has erased and omitted female and nonbinary journalists from the digital record, particularly those who are also racial and ethnic minorities. This essential conversation for journalists, Wikipedia contributors, and allies to historically excluded journalists offered an opportunity to learn how to begin the work of attenuating “symbolic annihilation” […]
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AAJA & the Wikimedia Foundation: Taking back the narrative
From the Wikimedia Foundation on May 5, 2021: The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the Wikimedia Foundation co-hosted the virtual event, “Taking back the narrative: Changing how Asian Americans are represented in the news, on Wikipedia, and beyond”. This past year we saw a rise in acts of violence and xenophobia perpetrated against people […]
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Trusting News: What does Wikipedia have to do with trust?
Board member Jareen Imam presented to the Trusting News and JAWS (Journalists and Women Sympsium) communties.
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JAWS + Women Do News edit-a-thon: Write admired women journalists into history
Join JAWS and Women Do News for #WebinarWednesday and learn how to write women like Betsy Wade into popular digital history. Women journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, one of the most-visited English language websites in the world. This leads to issues related to safety, credibility, and recognition and income. We partnered with JAWS, the long-standing […]