Awards

An independent news agency, Women's eNews, Editor in Chief Rita Henley Jensen and its writers have won 30 awards in its seven plus years of operations.

2009

Rita Henley Jensen accepted the first prize in the IPPIE awards for best coverage of educational issues on Dec. 3. The award was given by New York Community Media Alliance for articles that expose the complexity of the largest educational system in the country in its attempt to educate a highly diverse student population or expose difficulties encountered by immigrant students or low-income students in obtaining quality education.

The winning story, Urban Girls Jump into the Title IX Gap, is about double dutch being taught as a sport in New York City public schools. It was reported and written by Carla Murphy, a freelancer with a long history at Women's eNews. The entire board and staff are gratified by this recognition. The IPPIE is the 32nd journalism prize Women's eNews has won in its nine years of operations.

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2007

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich won the Front Page Award for her commentaries distributed by Women's eNews: Bigger, Uglier, Story of Addicted Women Goes Untold and HIV-AIDS and Black Women? Time for Fireworks. The award is given by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

 

 

 

 

 

Writer based in Paris, Leela Jacinto, recognized by the South Asian Journalists Association for her Algerian Amnesty Heightens Danger to Women in the new media category. Marketing intern Munira Ahmed accepted the award for Jacinto.

• Also, Women's eNews was nominated for the Global Health Council Excellence in Media Award.

2006

Angeli Rasbury won the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for Out of Jail, Mothers Struggle to Reclaim Children.
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Rita Henley Jensen is named the Media Person of the Year, New York State Women's Press Club.
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2005

Sri Lankan reporter Chandani Jayatilleke wins the Micro-Finance Reporting Award, Inter Press News Service Agency and International Fund for Agricultural Development for her Microfinance Mends Lives Washed Away by Tsunami.




• Rosa Cisneros Memorial Award, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere.

• Women of Power and Influence Award, National Organization for Women New York City

• National Federation of Press Women, Best Internet Site, placed in three categories

• Named One of the Best Sites for Cultural Coverage, Utne Reader

2004

• The Maggie Award, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.

• National Federation of Press Women, placed in three categories

• Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy 2004, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Commission on the Status of Women

• One of the Hundred Most Influential Women in the City, New York Daily News

• Alumni Award, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

2003

• Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoon, National Press Foundation
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• Exceptional Woman in Publishing, Women in Periodical Publishing

• National Federation of Press Women, placed in three categories

2002

• Exceptional Merit Media Award, National Women's Political Caucus

• Exceptional Woman in Publishing, Internet category, Women in Periodical Publishing

2001

• Media Award for Excellence in Coverage of Women and Gender, University of Michigan

• Best Internet Feature, Newswomen's Club of New York

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