Monday, February 23, 2009
Organizations That Help Women in Communication Arts
Association for Women in Communications (WOMCOM)
This organization supports the professional growth and success of its members in the following industries: print and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multi-media design, and photography. Resources include a job board, mentor program, national conferences, recognition of professional excellence awards and national association chapters. They have professional chapters in Rochester and Westchester/Fairfield, NY and Northern New Jersey and student chapters at Cornell University, Hofstra University and Syracuse University to name a few.
Association for Women in Communications (WOMCOM) Homepage
http://www.womcom.org
WOMCOM New York/New Jersey Professional Chapters Page http://www.womcom.org/about_us/professional_chapters.asp#N
WOMCOM New York Student Chapters Page
http://www.womcom.org/about_us/student_chapters.asp
Women Make Movies
According to its website the organization was, "established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women."
Women Make Movies (WMM) Homepage
http://www.wmm.com/
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Organizations That Support Women in Diverse Communication Arts Fields
Women in Film (Lon Angeles)
www.wif.org
New York Women in Film and Television
www.nywift.org
Women in Film and Video of Washington D.C.
www.wifv.org
Women in Film (Seattle)
www.womeninfilm-seattle.org
Women in Film GM (Sponsored by General Motors)
www.women-in-film.com
Reel Women
www.reelwomen.org
Women's Media Center
Women in Media and News
www.wimnonline.org
Girls, women media project
Women, action and the media
Arab women active in arts and media
The Women's International Media Group
International Women's Media Foundation
Media Awareness Network
www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
Ground Spark
Journalism and Women Symposium
Women in Digital Journalism
Women in Journalism
American Women in Radio and TV
McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs www.newmediawomen.org
Women's News Media
The Adrienne Shelly Foundation: Supporting women filmmakers www.adrienneshellyfoundation.org
Women Make Movies
www.wmm.com
The Association for Women in Communications
www.womcom.org
New York Women In Communications
Advertising Women of New York
Washington Women In Public Relations
The International Association of Women In Radio and Television
www.iawrt.org
American Women In Radio and Television
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