Women Are Under Attack and Fighting Back
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
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🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The key to covering the 2020 election? More women. From the #MeToo movement to the fight for workplace equality to the dystopian abortion bills popping up around the country, male supremacy is plainly on the agenda in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. How should the media, particularly women in media, cover such a fraught moment? To help guide us toward an answer, MoJo's Jamilah King recently hosted two live events in New York City that brought together five women journalists of various ages and backgrounds. First, Jamilah spoke with Jessica Yellin, CNN’s former White House chief correspondent, at The Wing DUMBO, a women-only space in New York City, to discuss Yellin’s new novel, Savage News; the 2020 presidential election; the not-so-secret bro culture of cable news; and life after TV news. This week’s episode of the Mother Jones Podcast also contains highlights from another live event Jamilah hosted at Manhattan’s New School. The conversation features some of today’s leading women in media discussing the challenges and the hope of achieving equality in the industry: Imara Jones, a black transgender woman and host of The Last Sip on Free Speech TV; Antonia Hylton, correspondent and producer for Vice News Tonight on HBO; Kat Aaron, an organizer and producer at Pineapple Media; and Allie Maloney, senior politics editor at Teen Vogue.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, being |
| 0:07.0 | on the show, being a woman in America in 2019, it can sometimes feel like we're |
| 0:20.0 | going backwards, a string of new abortion laws being put in the place to |
| 0:24.6 | police women's bodies, attacks against trans women, it's all a little bit too much. |
| 0:29.7 | One thing is for sure, when women get to tell women's stories themselves, that makes a difference. |
| 0:37.0 | That's what this show is about. |
| 0:39.0 | Women's stories and the women who tell them, and how that can shape the future of some of the most important issues in the |
| 0:46.7 | country right now. I recently hosted two events here in New York City with some of |
| 0:51.2 | today's most talented women journalists, including CNN's |
| 0:54.6 | former White House correspondent Jessica Yellen. We tackled these big issues and just a |
| 1:00.0 | little warning we sometimes use some salty language because this stuff is real. |
| 1:05.4 | That's all coming up on this live event double bill of the Mother Jones podcast. |
| 1:10.8 | Stay tuned. To help guide us through these murky waters, we asked an amazing panel of women journalists |
| 1:20.0 | at the New School. |
| 1:21.0 | If women had a seat at the table, what changes? |
| 1:25.0 | But first, from the Me Too Movement to fighting for workplace equality, |
| 1:32.0 | former Chief White House correspondent for CNN, |
| 1:34.8 | Jessica Yellen, has some stories to tell. |
| 1:37.8 | Her personal insights into the not-so-secret bro culture |
| 1:41.0 | of cable news, post-traumatic hair disorder, and life after TV news. |
| 1:47.0 | In New York City there's this women-only space called the wing. |
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