Jessica Bennett (journalist)

Jessica Bennett (born 1981) is an American journalist who writes on gender issues, politics and culture. She was the first gender editor[1] for The New York Times and a former columnist at Time.[2]

Jessica Bennett
Born1981 (age 38–39)
Seattle, Washington, United States
EducationBoston University
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe New York Times
AwardsNew York Press Club (multiple)
Newswomen's Club of New York (multiple)
GLAAD Media Award
International Center for Photography
Websitejessicabennett.com

She is the author of ''Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace'' (HarperCollins, 2016)[3] and editor of ''This Is 18: Girls Lives Through Girls’ Eyes'' (Abrams, 2019).[4]

Personal background

Bennett grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she attended Garfield High School. She received a B.S. in journalism from Boston University, where she was a student reporter covering crime at The Boston Globe. She moved to New York City to become a research assistant to the investigative reporter Wayne Barrett.[5]

Career

Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she was a staff writer, and won a NY Press Club award for the story on the Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy, about a family's struggle to remove their daughter's gruesome death photos from the internet.[6][7] In 2010, she and two colleagues wrote a cover story titled "Are We There Yet?"[8] about Newsweek's long history of sexism. It appeared on the 40th anniversary of a landmark lawsuit against the magazine,[9] in which 46 female staffers sued the company for gender discrimination. That story became a book, The Good Girls Revolt, by Lynn Povich[10] and an Amazon television series of the same name.[11]

Bennett left Newsweek after it merged with The Daily Beast and worked briefly at Tumblr[12] and Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit Lean In,[13] where she cofounded the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography.[14]

For The New York Times, Bennett was a contributing writer and columnist [15] for the Style section before becoming gender editor. She has written on the #MeToo movement,[16] uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct against the playwright Israel Horovitz,[17] and has covered cultural trends such as the attempt by Playboy magazine to rebrand,[18] feminists joining sororities,[19] and the rise of sexual consent training programs on college campuses.[20] Her profiles include Monica Lewinsky,[21] Paula Broadwell,[22] Whitney Wolfe of Bumble,[23] E. Jean Carroll,[24] Alyssa Milano and Jennifer Aniston.[25] She once wrote a viral piece about her Resting Bitch Face.[26]

In 2016, Bennett published her first book, Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace,[27] which was called "engaging, practical and hilarious" by Sheryl Sandberg[3] and "a classic f--k you feminist battle guide" by Broad City's Ilana Glazer.[3]

In 2017, The New York Times announced that Bennett would serve as its first-ever gender editor.[28] In that role, Bennett was responsible for expanding coverage of women and gender issues across platforms and better engaging women readers. She created the In Her Words newsletter,[29] launched the Overlooked obituaries project,[30] a series of long-overdue obituaries for notable women whose deaths were never covered in the paper, and published the perspectives of young women around the world through “This is 18,” [31] a photography initiative that became an international exhibit and a book.

She is cohost of The New York Times’s annual women’s conference, The New Rules Summit.[32]

Awards and honors

Bennett has been honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York,[33] GLAAD Media Award,[34] the New York Press Club[35] and the International Center of Photography for her work on the Lean In Collection.[36]

References
  1. Bennett, Jessica (December 13, 2017). "Jessica Bennett, Our New Gender Editor, Answers Your Questions". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  2. "How to Stop a 'Manterrupter' Like Donald Trump". Time. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  3. Bennett, Jessica. "Feminist Fight Club - Jessica Bennett - Hardcover". HarperCollins US. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  4. Bennett, Jessica (November 12, 2019). "A stunning celebration of girlhood around the world, from the New York Times". Abrams. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  5. Pérez-peña, Richard (February 25, 2011). "For Wayne Barrett, the Digging for Dirt Hasn't Stopped". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  6. Bennett, Jessica (April 24, 2009). "One Family's Fight Against Grisly Web Photos". Newsweek.
  7. Bennett, Jessica (April 2, 2010). "For Family of Nikki Catsouras, a Victory in Court". Newsweek.
  8. "Young Women, Newsweek, and Sexism". Newsweek. March 18, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  9. "40 Years of Sexism at Newsweek?". ABC News. March 24, 2010. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  10. Liesl Schillinger. "Throwing Stones at Glass Ceilings". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  11. Watch Good Girls Revolt Season 1 Episode - Amazon Video, retrieved September 26, 2016
  12. Brian Stelter. "Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News". The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  13. Suzanna Bobadilla. "Meet Jessica Bennett, Feminist Powerhouse and Editor of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In". Mic. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  14. "Q&A: The Curator of Lean In's Feminist Stock Photos". February 10, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  15. "Command Z". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  16. Bennett, Jessica (November 5, 2017). "The Click Moment: How the Weinstein Scandal Unleashed a Tsunami". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  17. Bennett, Jessica (November 30, 2017). "Nine Women Accuse the Playwright Israel Horovitz of Misconduct". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  18. Bennett, Jessica (August 2, 2019). "Can the Millennials Save Playboy?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  19. Bennett, Jessica (April 9, 2016). "When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  20. Bennett, Jessica (January 9, 2016). "Campus Sex … With a Syllabus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  21. Bennett, Jessica (March 19, 2015). "Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It's on Her Terms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  22. Bennett, Jessica (May 28, 2016). "Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the Afterlife of a Scandal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  23. Bennett, Jessica (March 18, 2017). "With Her Dating App, Women Are in Control". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  24. Bennett, Jessica (June 27, 2019). "Why E. Jean Carroll, the Anti-Victim, Spoke Up About Trump". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  25. Bennett, Jessica (September 10, 2019). "It's a New Morning for Jennifer Aniston". The New York Times.
  26. Bennett, Jessica (August 1, 2015). "I'm Not Mad. That's Just My RBF". The New York Times.
  27. Bennett, Jessica (September 13, 2016). Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave.
  28. "Meet The New York Times's First Gender Editor". Teen Vogue. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  29. "In Her Words". The New York Times. July 6, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  30. Padnani, Amisha; Bennett, Jessica (March 8, 2018). "Remarkable People We Overlooked in Our Obituaries". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  31. Bennett, Jessica; Strzemien, Anya (October 11, 2018). "This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls' Eyes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  32. "The New Rules Summit: Women, Leadership and a Playbook for Change". The New York Times. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  33. Alex Alvarez (November 5, 2010). "The 2011 Front Page Awards". FishBowlNY, AdWeek.
  34. "Pictures and Winners From the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC" (Press release). GLAAD. March 30, 2009.
  35. "The New York Press Club Journalism Awards: 2011 Winners". New York Press Club. Archived from the original on July 9, 2015.
  36. "2015 Infinity Award: Trustee". International Center of Photography. May 16, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
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