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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...

Your blogstress had the great pleasure of spending last weekend at WAM!, the Women, Action & Media conference that's become an annual spring-break confab rooted at MIT's Stata Center -- a Frank-Gehry designed oddity -- and sponsored by the legendary Center for New Words. While there, your Webwench found herself in the company of a number of women who, dissatisfied with the offerings of today's media, just up and made their own. At the Women's Media Center Web site, you may find your ecrivaine 's rundown , complete with links to lots of cool, independent media products. CLICK HERE TO READ "THANKS, WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN MEDIA" AT W.M.C.