Women in the Media

What event began the emergence of women as true players in the media? Was it Sherry Lansing’s appointment to President of 20th Century Fox in 1980, becoming the first woman to head a studio? Was it Cathleen Black in 1979 becoming the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York? Or did the real power for women in the media come later with Geraldine Laybourne reinventing children’s television on Nickelodeon or Judy McGrath …

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