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Women's eNews


Women's eNews is a nonprofit online news service based in New York City. It publishes international news articles specializing in coverage of women's lives.

In 1996, the Barbara Lee Family Foundation funded a discussion about women's media, hosted by a spinoff of National Organization for Women: NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 1999, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund underwrote Women's eNews, created to be an online news service for all women, and to act as a news wire for commercial media. The NOW Legal Defense fund put journalist Rita Henley Jensen in the position of editor in chief. NOW Legal Defense Fund's president of the time, Kathryn Rodgers said of the launch:

Looking out at the media's coverage of women, we saw a tremendous void in women's voices, in women as opinion shapers, and in the coverage of all the things that women do in society. So we decided to show the media what they were missing. Not to go on a blame campaign, but to do the ground work, actually do the reporting, and go back to these media outlets and say, 'Here's what we're talking about when we say you're not covering women's issues'.

Two years later on January 1, 2002, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund released Women's eNews to become an independent organization.

Women's eNews joined the Fund for the City for New York's Incubator/Partner Project Program in 2002.

Women's eNews launched its Arabic language site, Arabic Women's eNews, on April 28, 2003 in response to the theme of women's empowerment in the United Nations Development Program's first Arab Human Development Report. Arabic Women's eNews translates English-language content into Arabic and also creates new content in Arabic.

In 2008 Women's eNews left the Incubator/Partner Project Program and became an independent organization. Rita Henley Jensen remains editor-in-chief of Women's eNews.

Rita Henley Jensen has more than 30 years of experience in journalism. She earned a degree from Ohio State University, and another in 1976–1977 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has received many awards for her journalistic practice including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Hunter College Presidential Grant for Innovative Uses of Technology in Teaching, and the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize.


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