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Who We Are

The Women Do News project grew out of a 2019 cohort of journalists participating in Take The Lead, a leadership training program co-founded by Gloria Feldt. It has since evolved to partner with other allies at universities and journalism groups to identify worthy women journalists for biographies, train editors, and add Wikipedia entries to even the playing field on this important platform. We are now part of a nonprofit, Bay City News Foundation, to support this work.

Among entries, the Women Do News network has added so far women who are pioneers for Asian Americans (like Lori Matsukawa), who covered high-profile trials for 50 years (like Linda Deutsch), and who were the first women editors in their newsrooms (like Betsy Wade). They have won Emmys and Murrows (like Tonya Mosley) and Pulitzers (like Lisa Song) — but unlike men with similar credentials, they couldn’t get that coveted prize of a Wikipedia page! That’s where we come in as volunteers and trainers and organizers.

We write and edit entries to add to Wikipedia. We identify women who deserve more recognition and work to get citations to build their profiles so they can get well-cited entries on Wikipedia. We hold Edit-a-Thons and workshops to build the roster, edit entries, and teach others how to contribute to the work.

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Why does it matter?

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, recognition, and income. Women Do News is dedicated to elevating the voices and profiles of women journalists online. We are made up of a working board, all volunteers, one project manager who helps keep us moving forward, and most importantly all the people who sign up to participate! Help us if you can.

Join the movement

Sign up to tell us who you think needs to be recognized on Wikipedia. We’ll send you the form to make a nomination and also introduce you to women who do news once a week. You’ll also get links to assignments and instructions about how to add or edit articles!

Team And Funding

We comprise a volunteer board, a project manager, WDN event attendees, and other volunteer writers and editors.

Women Do News is fiscally sponsored by the Bay City News Foundation. We have received funding, grants or donations from NewsMatch, the Wikimedia Foundation, and individual donors, and through a knowledge partnership with McKinsey Global Publishing.

Take the Lead supported our first edit-a-thon, held in NYC in November 2019. Upcoming Events Women Do News Board meeting

February 20th, 2024 10:00 AM PST - 11:00 AM PST

Want to join the board? Message Anna Kristina in Slack!

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Monthly Flash Edit - all welcome!

February 27th, 2024 5:00 PM PST - 6:00 PM PST / zoom

Interested in getting involved with Women Do News? Our monthly flash edits are the place to start!

We meet once a month on Zoom to work on articles, update each other on how our Wiki writing has been going, and just generally check in. Flash edits are a very low-key place to connect with other Wiki volunteers and trouble-shoot the writing and editing process. Feel free to bring a beverage or a snack and come hang out 🙂 / Join Zoom Meeting

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Now on Wikipedia: Yalda Moaiery

Yalda Moaiery (Persian: یلدا معیری) is an Iranian photojournalist, she is known for war, protest, natural disaster, and conflict photographs. In 2019, she gained international notoriety after Donald Trump had used one of her photos on social media to support an attack on Iran, which she publicly spoke out on. During the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022, she was one of around twenty journalists arrested in Iran. She is a member of the Iranian Photojournalists Association (IPJA). Read the full biography on Wikipedia

Now on Wikipedia: Glenda Umaña

Glenda Cecilia Umaña Hidalgo (San José, 22 de noviembre de 1961) es una periodista y presentadora de televisión costarricense, destacada a nivel latinoamericano como titular de diversos noticieros en CNN en Español hasta noviembre de 2014. In translation: Glenda Cecilia Umaña Hidalgo (San José, November 22, 1961) is a Costa Rican journalist and television presenter, prominent in Latin America as the headliner of various news programs on CNN en Español until November 2014. Read the full biography on Wikipedia February 16th, 2024 Now on Wikipedia: Edith Lederer Edith Lederer, also known as Edie Lederer (born 1943) is an American war journalist. Lederer worked with Jean Heller at the Associated Press (AP) New York City headquarters at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. In 1968, while working at the AP’s San Francisco bureau, Lederer met Peter Buxtun and he spoke to her about his ethical concerns regarding the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Lederer recognized the newsworthiness of the information and passed it on to a colleague, Associated Press investigative reporter Jean Heller, who broke the story, resulting in the ending of the study. Read more on Wikipedia.

Now on Wikipedia: Eeva-Kaarina Aronen

Eeva-Kaarina Aronen (30 December 1948 – 16 December 2015) was a Finnish author and journalist. Her novels were nominated for the Runeberg Prize and the Finlandia Prize. Read more on Wikipedia.

February 2nd, 2024

Now on Wikipedia: Andie Dominick

Andie Dominick (born 1971) is an editorial writer at the Des Moines Register. She received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for “examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid.” Read more on Wikipedia.

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