WME has signed female founded and led podcast network, Wonder Media Network (Wmn), for representation in all areas with focus on growing the company’s podcast business and diversifying and expanding the network into books and television.
Wonder Media Network is helmed by journalist Jenny Kaplan, who left Bloomberg to launch the company in 2018 and brand strategist Shira Atkins. Wmn calls itself an audio-first media company with a mission to amplify underrepresented voices.
Current shows include Encyclopedia Womannica, audio doc Ordinary Equality, The Brown Girls Guide to Politics, Majority 54 and Women Belong in the House, which have been named to top podcast lists on Harper’s, Marie Claire and Refinery29. Its latest project is She Votes!, an eight-part audio doc on the history of women’s suffrage hosted by journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.
Most recently Encyclopedia Womannica was nominated for a 2020 Webby and got an honorable mention in...
Wonder Media Network is helmed by journalist Jenny Kaplan, who left Bloomberg to launch the company in 2018 and brand strategist Shira Atkins. Wmn calls itself an audio-first media company with a mission to amplify underrepresented voices.
Current shows include Encyclopedia Womannica, audio doc Ordinary Equality, The Brown Girls Guide to Politics, Majority 54 and Women Belong in the House, which have been named to top podcast lists on Harper’s, Marie Claire and Refinery29. Its latest project is She Votes!, an eight-part audio doc on the history of women’s suffrage hosted by journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.
Most recently Encyclopedia Womannica was nominated for a 2020 Webby and got an honorable mention in...
- 8/5/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Playwright Nell Benjamin and Explorer Sylvia Earle Set for Talk After Mtc's The Explorers Club, 5/31
On Friday, May 31, Tony nominated writer Nell Benjamin and legendary deep-sea explorer Sylvia Earle - one of the first women admitted to the real Explorers Club in New York - will engage in a conversation to talk about their experiences in their respective fields, following the 8 Pm performance of Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of The Explorers Club, a madcap comedy now in previews at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. The conversation will be moderated by Peabody Award-winning journalist and author Lynn Sherr.
- 5/30/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
America's first female VP candidate on a major party ticket died today at 75. Lynn Sherr, who traveled with Ferraro on her groundbreaking 1984 campaign, recalls the congresswoman's electrifying debut, the way she inspired women all over the country-and how she handled her loss with grace. Plus, Mark Katz remembers Geraldine Ferraro's great sense of humor.
Geraldine Ferraro opened the door to her Washington congressional office, grabbed my hand, and pulled me to the mirror above her fireplace. "C'mere," she said in her brisk Queens cadence. "C'mere. I have to see what everyone's talking about."
It was the summer of 1984, the first time I'd met her, and the two of us stood side by side gazing at each other's reflection. Everyone, it seems, was right. We did look alike, with our nearly identical short, thatched, and blond-streaked hair, our high cheekbones and strong chins. True, I was some four inches taller than the congresswoman,...
Geraldine Ferraro opened the door to her Washington congressional office, grabbed my hand, and pulled me to the mirror above her fireplace. "C'mere," she said in her brisk Queens cadence. "C'mere. I have to see what everyone's talking about."
It was the summer of 1984, the first time I'd met her, and the two of us stood side by side gazing at each other's reflection. Everyone, it seems, was right. We did look alike, with our nearly identical short, thatched, and blond-streaked hair, our high cheekbones and strong chins. True, I was some four inches taller than the congresswoman,...
- 3/26/2011
- by Lynn Sherr
- The Daily Beast
The governor-turned-reality-tv-star's new book dives into feminist history-distorting and misunderstanding it every step of the way.
In some ways, it's a good thing that Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist. It means that, even among conservatives, women's equality has become a normative position, the starting point for debate. It means that feminism has gone from something that the right wants to destroy to something it wants to appropriate. That's progress, of a sort.
Related story on The Daily Beast: John Boehner's Tea Party Nightmare
But reading Palin's new book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, it's clear that in order to claim feminism as her own, she's had to radically distort its history. In a chapter on feminism that's sure to be widely discussed, she mischaracterizes the views of nearly every historical feminist she mentions.
Sometimes she does it to defame them, other times to make...
In some ways, it's a good thing that Sarah Palin calls herself a feminist. It means that, even among conservatives, women's equality has become a normative position, the starting point for debate. It means that feminism has gone from something that the right wants to destroy to something it wants to appropriate. That's progress, of a sort.
Related story on The Daily Beast: John Boehner's Tea Party Nightmare
But reading Palin's new book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, it's clear that in order to claim feminism as her own, she's had to radically distort its history. In a chapter on feminism that's sure to be widely discussed, she mischaracterizes the views of nearly every historical feminist she mentions.
Sometimes she does it to defame them, other times to make...
- 11/26/2010
- by Michelle Goldberg
- The Daily Beast
Maria Shriver may be part of the powerful Kennedy clan - and married to California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - but she doesn't want anyone to think her life is absolutely perfect. "I don't have it all together ... the road is bumpy, and I don't have any shame in sharing that," the mother of four, 53, tells Lynn Sherr for The Daily Beast. "I find that people are so grateful that you say, 'Well, I'm having a very difficult time with my parents getting older.' Or, 'My parents are struggling and I'm struggling, too.' " It's true: Shriver's 87-year-old mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver,...
- 5/6/2009
- by Joey Bartolomeo
- PEOPLE.com
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