Women In Media and News launched WIMN's Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND…in March 2006. WIMN's Voices features a diverse online community of approximately 50 women writers monitoring media coverage of current social, cultural and political issues from a progressive perspective.

Every day, these leading journalists, media analysts, scholars and activists analyze the pressing news of the day through the frame of "Women, Media, AND…" the wide range of topics listed below.

The WIMN's Voices blog:
# Creates more critical space for media monitoring and analysis by, for and about women and the issues that concern us

# Illustrates that women are invested in all issues (not just abortion, rape and child care), and media have the responsibility to report as such

# Propels our perspectives into the blogsphere at a time when corporate media are recognizing the power of blogs yet claiming women don't exist in this new frontier

# Answers the marginalization of women's voices on the nation's op-ed pages and in other print and broadcast news areas by positioning a diverse group of feminist intellectuals as opinion-leaders, sources and pundits for mainstream and alternative media

Additionally, we hope that the tremendous range of perspectives represented within WIMN's Voices will serve as a model for the media itself - especially the independent press, which critiques the underrepresentation of female writers and journalists of color in corporate outlets, yet all too often replicates that marginalization within their own publications.

Of the writers participating in WIMN's Voices:
# Approximately 45% of bloggers are women of color

# Bloggers' ages range from 19 to 64

# Bloggers are straight, lesbian, bisexual and transgender

# Bloggers' religious affiliations include Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Quaker, Unitarian, atheist and agnostic

# Bloggers self-identify their economic status as ranging from struggling to working class to middle to upper middle class