On Monday, Friedman started Lady Journos, a project dedicated to aggregating the work of women writers and journalists in one place to once and for all answer the question “Where are all the women writers?”  Similar to projects like Longform.org and Longreads.com, Lady Journos is a Tumblr-based site that is dedicated to curating works of long-form writing and reporting by women across a variety of topics.

This afternoon, Virginia Congressional candidate Krystal Ball appeared on Fox News to discuss the photo scandal that has plagued her campaign with Megyn Kelly. In it, Kelly discussed the response Ball issued yesterday, calling out her critics attacks as “sexist and wrong.”

This morning Krystal Ball, the 28-year-old Democratic candidate for Congress in the first district of Virginia fired back in a statement accusing her critics of sexism. What happened to her, she said, is nothing unique – it could happen to any 28-year-old woman who grew up in the digital age – and they shouldn’t let their opponents use that to shame them into not running for office.

Several months back, I attended an all-female panel assembled to discuss why women don’t typically participate on media panels. I noted in my review that “the goal was to demonstrate to future conference planners and columnists that women offer a unique voice and belong on the panelist circuit.” As these issues take great deals of [...]

Here is a video of the GELF “Overlooked Women In Media” panel from September 2009, featuring Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy, Jezebel’s Anna Holmes and Slate Double X’s Jessica Grose.