Women's News
Moore, Anne Elizabeth
oN THE LINE Women's News Austin, Texas The Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been reporting news about ¦ women for nearly a decade, from Dublin to * Karachi to...
...The whole operation fills only two rooms of Frieda Werden's south Austin home...
...For information on how to get your local station to carry WINGS, or to send a tax deductible donation, write to WINGS Radio News, P.O...
...WINGS produces two types of shows...
...By then, Werden says, "I knew that coverage for women never lasts...
...These broadcasts go only to paid subscribers...
...Anne Elizabeth Moore Reporter Lisa Hayes and producer Frieda Werden are covering the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China...
...Davenport was involved in the women's news movement during the 1980s, and shared Werden's sense that a constant source of women's news was a necessary counterpart to the generally male-dominated media...
...wings After ten years on a shoestring budget, the financial situation at WINGS is dire...
...Once you see your same problems in the context of another country, you begin to see how fundamental they are," she says...
...It always appears and disappears again...
...oN THE LINE Women's News Austin, Texas The Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) has been reporting news about ¦ women for nearly a decade, from Dublin to * Karachi to Melbourne...
...Every week, WINGS produces half-hour current-affairs programs that are sent to any station that will air them...
...Afghanistan's all-women brigade, the radio pirates in Ireland who break censorship laws to inform women about abortions, and the Oglala Sioux women's organization have all appeared in WINGS reports that present women's actions as news, and try to preserve the original views and voices of women involved...
...Box 33220, Austin, TX 78764...
...With only about twenty-five paid subscriber stations, money is tight, and Werden is urgently seeking funding to keep supplying women's news...
...International reporting is crucial to the global women's movement, Werden says...
...Werden, who has worked in radio since the early 1970s, founded WINGS with Katherine Davenport in 1985, at the tail end of the UN's declared Decade for Women...
...Programs are broadcast in Chile, the Netherlands, and over shortwave in Costa Rica...
...The Davenport Award for Women's News (DAWN), awarded yearly for the hottest women's news story of the year, was begun after Davenport's death from leukemia in 1992...
...Every month, international newscasts are sent out covering the impact of world events on women...
Vol. 59 • September 1995 • No. 9
