Al Jazeera highlights WDN biography and issues we combat In a segment examining the gender gap on Wikipedia, Al Jazeera spoke with Juleyka Lantigua-Williams about her Wikipedia biography, which a Women Do News volunteer wrote. Lantigua-Williams spoke about how the biography impacted her life, and why she’s both proud and sad that it takes volunteer […]
Now on Wikipedia: Clare Baldwin
Clare Baldwin is an American journalist. As a special correspondent for Reuters in the Philippines, she won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018 for investigating Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs since 2016. Read more on Wikipedia.
Now on Wikipedia: Sara Lomax-Reese
Sara Lomax-Reese is an American journalist and media executive and entrepreneur. Lomax-Reese is the president and CEO of WURD Radio, the only African-American owned talk radio station in Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia. FEBRUARY 26, 2019, MIAMI, FLORIDA: From left; Richard Fox, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Sara Lomax-Reese, Lenfest, and Jim Friedlich, Lenfest, , during […]
Now on Wikipedia: Bebe Moore Campbell
Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006) was an American author, journalist and teacher. Campbell was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times “Best Book of 2001”. Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, which was […]
Now on Wikipedia: Marvel Cooke
Marvel Jackson Cooke (April 4, 1903 – November 29, 2000) was a pioneering American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist. She was the first African-American woman to work at a mainstream white-owned newspaper. Now on Wikipedia.
Now on Wikipedia: Manisha Ganguly
Manisha Ganguly (born 13 January 1995) is an investigations correspondent at The Guardian[1], specialising in Open Source intelligence.[2][3] She previously worked as investigative documentary producer for the BBC, where she won multiple awards for her work exposing war crimes.[4][5][6][7] She lives in London, United Kingdom.[8] Read more on Wikipedia.
Now on Wikipedia: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (née St. Pierre; August 31, 1842 – March 13, 1924[1]) was an African-American publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, and editor of the Woman’s Era, the first national newspaper published by and for African-American women. Read more on Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation on our work: “Tackling the Gender Divide in Journalism Through Wikipedia”
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Now on Wikipedia: Juleyka Lantigua
Juleyka Lantigua (formerly known as Juleyka Lantigua-Williams) is an American journalist and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of the podcast production company Lantigua Williams & Co., which rebranded in 2021 to LWC Studios as part of a reorganization and expansion.
Now on Wikipedia: Christine von Kohl
Christine von Kohl (1923–2009) was a Danish journalist, writer, broadcaster, human rights activist and Balkan expert. She is remembered in particular for her articles and books on the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s while she was based in Vienna. In 2002, she received the SEEMO human rights award.