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Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem - the Co-Founders of The WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER — announced the honorees for the 2023 Women's Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, October 19th, at the Whitby Hotel in New York City. 

Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem - the Co-Founders of The WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER - announce the honorees for the 2022 Women's Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, November 17th, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.

Chicago Humanities Festival is announcing an exciting line-up of virtual programs with award-winning writers, groundbreaking scholars, and cultural icons in late-April and May. Renowned speakers include Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku interviewed by actor LeVar Burton, and more.

Celebrated political podcast Talking Feds is launching a new series, “Women at the Table.”

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) announced the 45th annual Gracie Awards program will air live on AWMF’s Facebook page on September 10, 2020 at 7pm ET/PT. 

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced tonight the winners of the 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards. The awards were presented at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City and honored both national and international nominees in more than 50 categories. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC's “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” was honored for her ground-breaking career with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will kick off a week of on-the-ground coverage in Miami for the first Democratic presidential debate beginning Monday, June 24.

MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show” was the #1 cable news program in A25-54 for the 1st quarter of 2019, beating all other FOX News and CNN shows, according to Nielsen data from December 31, 2018 through March 28, 2019. “Maddow” averaged 552,000 in A25-54 viewers (vs. FOX News' 542,000 for Hannity and 528,000 for Hannity with Specials at 9pm, FOX News' 534,000 at 8pm and CNN's 367,000 at 9pm). Additionally, this quarter was “Maddow's” highest-rated quarter ever in total viewers, averaging 3.07M total viewers at 9pm (vs. FOX News' 3.06M for Hannity with Specials and CNN's 1.3M).

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) today honored several outstanding female journalists at the 2018 Courage in Journalism Awards luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street. This year's honorees included news agency JINHA founder, Zehra Do?an, U.S. freelance photojournalist, Meridith Kohut, undercover CNN International correspondent, Nima Elbagir, and organized crime reporter and ZETA editor-in-chief, Rosario Mosso Castro. "60 Minutes'" Lesley Stahl also received the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, MSNBC President, Phil Griffin was recognized with the IWMF Leadership Award along with Bloomberg News' Senior Editor, Karen Toulon who was honored with the Gwen Ifill Award.

In the 3rd quarter of 2018, MSNBC scored all-time ratings highs in the key dayparts of total day (M-Su 6am-6am) and dayside (M-F 9am-5pm), delivering MSNBC's largest total viewer audience ever as well as the network's biggest lead over CNN in those dayparts, according to Nielsen. In total viewers, MSNBC continued to close the ratings gap with FOX News in both total day and dayside. MSNBC's ratings in those key dayparts were at their closest quarterly levels to FOX News since 2002. MSNBC was the only cable news network to grow year-over-year in both total day and dayside, while CNN faced ratings declines. MSNBC dayside was up +20% in total viewers with 1.11M (vs. CNN's 850,000) as compared to 3Q17, while CNN was down -2%. In total day, MSNBC with 1.04M (vs. CNN's 722,000) rose +10% in total viewers compared to the previous year, while CNN was down -9%. In total viewers, MSNBC topped CNN in total day for the 6th consecutive quarter and in dayside for the 5th quarter in a row. MSNBC also recorded the network's biggest quarterly lead over CNN in MSNBC history.

Mika Brzezinski, founder of "Know Your Value" and co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is heading west and taking the "Know Your Value" live event series to San Francisco on Dec. 1 at The Palace Hotel.

Today, NBC News and MSNBC officially launch its in-depth 2018 midterm election coverage, The Vote: America's Future. Both news organizations combine broadcast, cable, and digital reporting to deliver up-to-the-minute news and analysis on the key races that will determine who holds power in Washington when the dust settles in November.

NBC News and MSNBC will provide special coverage of the Washington D.C. funeral events for Sen. John McCain beginning Friday, August 31. NBC News senior national correspondent Kate Snow will anchor NBC News' coverage of Friday's ceremony when Sen. McCain's body arrives to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

For the month of July 2018, MSNBC continued to dominate CNN among total viewers in every key daypart, including prime (M-F 8-11pm), dayside (M-F 9am-5pm), and total day (M-Su 6am-6am), according to Nielsen ratings data. In total day, July marked the 17th month in a row that the network topped CNN in total viewers; in prime, MSNBC beat CNN for the 20th straight month; in dayside, MSNBC bested CNN for the 10th straight month. Among all cable networks, MSNBC was the #2 most-watched in prime – ahead of #9 CNN and doubling CNN in total viewers (2.1 million vs. CNN's 998,000). Additionally, MSNBC prime was in the Top 10 across all cable in A25-54. In total day and dayside, MSNBC was the #3 most-watched network across all cable, ahead of #8 CNN in total day and #4 CNN in dayside.

NBC News and MSNBC together will deliver live in-depth coverage of President Trump's first visit to the United Kingdom as well as his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Special coverage will be live from London and Helsinki with anchors and correspondents also reporting from New York, Washington, Moscow, and across the U.K.

NBC News and MSNBC together will deliver around-the-clock coverage of the historic meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, anchored live from Singapore and NBC News world headquarters in New York, with anchors and correspondents reporting from locations on the ground as well as Seoul and Beijing.

For the month of May, MSNBC dayside (M-F 9am-5pm) posted growth in A25-54 and total viewers while FOX News and CNN both declined. MSNBC dayside was up +11%, while the competition was down double digits (vs. FOX News' -14% and CNN's -25%) compared to May 2017. In total viewers, MSNBC was up +4% (vs. FOX News' -9% and CNN's -21%). May marked the 8th straight month that MSNBC beat CNN in total viewers during M-F dayside. For all of cable, MSNBC finished as the #2 most-watched network in total viewers, up from #4 in 2017 (ahead of Nickelodeon and CNN). Among the Top 10 cable networks, MSNBC was the only network to grow in total viewers over 2017. In the key A25-54 demographic, MSNBC dayside continued to narrow the gap with CNN, with less than 10,000 viewers A25-54 separating the two cable news networks. This is the closest MSNBC dayside has been to CNN in four years (since February 2014).

More Viewers Turn To MSNBC Than CNN In Total Day For 14th Consecutive Month

Today on Equal Pay Day, Mika Brzezinski, founder of “Know Your Value” and co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” announced a multi-platform partnership, in conjunction with Comcast NBCUniversal, with 2018 Olympic gold medalists Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando. The identical Lamoureux twins are the newest external contributors to join the 'Know Your Value' platform.