Media analysis: no women need apply?
When MediaBistro announced its upcoming panel discussion titled "Finding a Business Model for News and Online Media", it listed only white men as panelists, thus joining a list of other apparently well-meaning organizations whose leaders tend to see only men as media innovators. In MediaBistro's case, this is particularly ironic, since the pioneering Web-based all-things-media outlet and consulting company was founded by Laurel Touby, a woman. The Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) community took issue with MediaBistro's treatment, issuing this letter , to which your humble blogstress signed her proper name: Dear MediaBistro and Demand Studios, We applaud your efforts to create an “an open discussion about the business models, innovation, and power of community that are changing journalism.” But your selection of presenters on this subject has forced us to wonder to whom, exactly, this discussion is open. We won’t stand for another panel exclusively composed of wh...