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Matrix Awards 2007 • April 23, 2007
Matrix Awards 2007
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NYWICI
Board of Directors
President
VP - Career Development
VP - Public Relations
Betsy L. Morgan
Leslie Hunt
Linda Buckley
Senior Vice President,
CBS Interactive;
General Manager, CBSNews.com
Baruch College-Zicklin School of
Business, MBA Class of 2007
Vice President, Media Relations
Tiffany & Co.
VP - Membership
VP - Public Relations
Stephanie Aaron
Dorothy Crenshaw
President, Aaron Design, Inc.
President, Stanton Crenshaw
Communications
President-Elect
Kristine Welker
VP, Publisher
CosmoGIRL!
VP - Membership
Jeanne-Marie Byington
VP - Communications
Jennifer S. Brisman
President, J M Byington &
Associates, Inc.
Mistina Bates
President
Events New York
VP - Program
VP - Communications
Pat Baird, MA, RD, FADA
Deirdre Wyeth
Nancy Megan
Healthcare Communications
Consultant
President, Wyeth Media
Owner, Promotion Management
Patricia Baird Communications
VP - Student Affairs
VP - Career Development
VP - Program
Secretary
VP - Finance
Marcia A. Cole
Founder & Editorial Dircetor
AMBERmag.com
President, Market It Write!
Joan Cear
Nancie Steinberg
Vice President, Media Services
Chamberlain Healthcare Public
Relations
Managing Director, G.S. Schwartz
& Co., Inc.
VP - Student Affairs
Linda Krebs
Senior Account Executive,
G.S. Schwartz & Co., Inc.
NYWICI Foundation Board of Directors
NYWICI Staff
Barbara Brennan
Holly Koenig
Vice President, Lifetime
Staff Director
Catherine L. Carlozzi
Maria Ungaro
Business Writer
Executive Director
Nancy Megan
Leslee Dart
Emily Brochstein
The Dart Group
Membership Coordinator
Immediate Past President
Allison Gollust
Brian Getkin
Senior Vice President,
NBC News Communications
Web Specialist
President
Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols
Senior Vice President, External
Affairs, Weber Shandwick
Treasurer
Jyll Holzman
Roz Abrams
Gail Blanke
President & CEO, Gail Blanke's
Lifedesigns
Elaine Boltz
Chief Marketing Officer, Ann Taylor
Inc.
Matt Tedeschi
Dana Beth Hagendorf
Web Specialist
Senior Director of Marketing,
St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
June Price
Creative Director
Susan Schulz
Editor-in-Chief, CosmoGIRL!
Lysa Robinson
Staff Controller
MaryAlice Williams
Ice Blue Productions, Inc.
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Contents
MATRIX ’07 Committees
6
Greetings from the Mayor
8
Greetings from the NYWICI President
10
Greetings from the NYWICI Foundation President
12
Greetings from the MATRIX ’07 Host
14
About NYWICI
16
About NYWICI Foundation
16
Dreamgirls: Stars on the Rise
18
MATRIX ’07 Emcee: Rosie O’Donnell
24
MATRIX ’07 Winners
25
Cindy Adams: Only in New York, Kids
28
Lisa Caputo: A Team Player Willing to Veer Off Course
36
Joan Didion: A Wordsmith Since Childhood
42
Pamela Fiori: An Editor With a Mission
46
Thelma Golden: Shaking Up the Art World
52
Arianna Huffington: Never Afraid to Speak Her Mind
56
Susan Lyne: A Born Leader
60
Meredith Vieira: A Multi-Tasking Media Maven
64
MATRIX Hall of Fame
70
Matrix 2007
Committees
AOL Host Committee
Charlotte Kelly Veal
Nominations Committee
Ramona Flood
Lisa Judson
CKV Communications
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Colette Yorrick
Pamela Thomas
Graham, Co-Chair
Janet Balis
Director, Health & Beauty Aids,
Essence Magazine
Group President, Liz
Claiborne, Inc.
Manager, Development
Communications, Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Entertainment Journalist
Digital Media Committee
Linda Kaplan Thaler,
Co-Chair
CEO/President, The Kaplan
Thaler Group
Macy’s East
Linda Fairstein
Senior Vice President, Sales
Development
Anne Bentley
Vice President, Corporate
Communications
Stephanie Dolgins
Vice President, Marketing
Kathleen Kayse
Executive Vice President, Sales
& Partnership Alliances
Arrangements Committee
Jennifer Brisman,
Co-Chair
Leslie Hunt, Chair
Baruch College-Zicklin School
of Business, MBA Class of 2007
Susannah Gora
January Green
Margo Hasen
Nikki Egan
Author
Personal Wardrobe Stylist,
The Doncaster Collection
Senior Producer, MSNBC
Ellen Levine
Nancy L. Hoffmann
Laurissa James
Producer, Hybrid Films
Editorial Director, Hearst
Magazines
Owner/Creative Director,
TomatoDesign.Net
Katie L. Pagenkopf
Martha Nelson
Rita Jammet
Assistant Producer,
The Lisa Birnbach Show
Editor, The People Group,
Time Inc.
Bouquet Ventures LLC
Tekla Szymanski
Betsy Morgan
President, Kalvin Public
Relations
Judy Kalvin
Editing & Web Design
www.tekla-syzmanski.com
Senior Vice President, CBS
Interactive; General Manager,
CBSNews.com
Journal Committee
Maurie Perl
Suzanne Gannon,
Co-Chair
Laurie Krotman
Freelance Reporter and Writer
Senior Vice President, Chief
Communications Officer,
Conde Nast Publications
Mildred Antenor
Linda Levi, Co-Chair
Carolyn K. Reidy
Allison Larkan
Theresa Leinker
President, Events New York
Rachel Gross, Co-Chair
Director, Corporate Events, AOL
Devepolment Committee
Nancy Megan, Chair
Professor/Journalist, Seton Hall
University
Senior Communications Officer,
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
President, Simon & Schuster
Adult Publishing Group
Denise Coleman
Suzanne I. Cohen
Program Committee
Director, Sponsorships
Institutional Investor
Communications Specialist,
Forest Laboratories
Joann Coviello
Barbara Colasuonno
Freelance Conference Planner
& Copywriter
Design Director, Group 33
Design Associates, Inc.
Lisa Hernandez Gioia
Joann Coviello
President, The Esler Group
Beth-Ellen Keyes
Managing Director,
SpeakerSpace
Susan M. King
Freelance Conference Planner
and Copywriter
Ramona Flood
Manager, Development
Communications, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Manager, Public Relations,
The Success Communications
Group
Karen Berger Freeman
Terry Lewis
Robin Jay
President, Global
Communications Company
Molly Lockwood
President, Conceptual
Marketing
Reneé Niño de Rivera
Attorney and Writer
Vice President, Creative
Services, Dorland Healthcare
Information
Barbara Lankalis
Beth-Ellen Keyes,
Co-Chair
Managing Director,
SpeakerSpace
Susan Shattuck,
Co-Chair
Betty Jagoda Murphy
Manager, Corporate Media
Relations, Pfizer Inc.
President, ReGenesis LLC
Cynthia Brown
Run of Show Event Services
Controller, The New York Friars
Club
Peggy Bunker
Anchor, CBS.com / HGTV
Nicole Cacioppo
Marva H. Rose
Loraine Miller
Standard & Poor’s
Financial Advisor, Smith Barney
Founder and Chief Executive
Officer, Love Our Children USA
Lois Schwartz
Marilyn Petrokubi
Alison Fidler
Communications Consultant
Julie Livingston
NY1 News
Denise Capuano
Julie Robinson Tingue
Online Community Coordinator,
Zagat Survey
Judy Sandlin Brooks
Julia Levy
Copywriter
Charmaine Lim
Lauren Mickler
Simon & Schuster
Susie Rubin
Children’s Specialized Hospital
Foundation
President, Events New York
DACC Communications
Director, Client Services,
Catboys Communications
G.S. Schwartz & Co., Inc.
Jennifer Brisman
Research Assistant, Tanner &
Co., Inc.
Joanne Sephine
Special Events Unlimited, Inc.
Senior Director, Marketing
Communications, Toy Industry
Association
Attorney
President, TimeSteps
Productions, Inc.
Senior Account Executive, G.S.
Schwartz & Co., Inc.
Special Events Unlimited, Inc.
President, Niño de Rivera
Communications
Office Manager, 92nd Street Y
Linda A. Krebs
Ross Ellis
Marketing Assistant, New York
City Bar Association
Amy Peloso
Francine E. Ryan
President & Chief Marketing
Officer, The Ryan Group
Karen Schadow
President, The Voice of Success
Seana
Author
Adaora Udoji
Court TV
Rahima Wachuku
American Medical Alert Corp.
Public Relations Committee
Lori Dolginoff
LD Media Consulting, Inc.
from the president
Welcome
to our 37th Annual Matrix Awards luncheon. Thank
you for joining us to celebrate our eight outstanding Matrix honorees. We truly
appreciate the support you and your businesses have bestowed on New York Women
in Communications. We are thrilled this year to have AOL as our event chair. AOL’s
contributions have been invaluable to the planning and execution of today’s event.
Every year we set aside this day to celebrate the achievements of women in
communications. Needless to say we have come a long way from the days when Nathaniel Hawthorne
dismissed female writers as a “damned mob of scribbling women.” Last year marked the first time a woman,
Katie Couric, ascended to the anchor’s chair on a broadcast network evening news program, and the first
time two women, Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts, co-anchored a network TV morning show. And more
recently, marble ceilings were broken in Washington when Nancy Pelosi became our nation’s first female
Speaker of the House and Hillary Rodham Clinton formally entered the 2008 Presidential race. It is those
types of role models we herald today.
NYWICI has worked tirelessly since 1929 with one mission: to empower women to reach their full potential.
This year’s Matrix honorees have done just that, and we learn a lot from their examples. They are fearless,
strong and successful and have changed the world along the way.
To our amazing award winners, their presenters, our guests and all our members, I hope you enjoy today’s
festivities. And I hope you are inspired as well. I encourage you to reflect back upon earlier Matrix celebrations
by reviewing the quips — serious and funny, informative and irreverent — of past Matrix winners that can
be found throughout this Matrix Journal. And lastly I urge you to look forward as well and take note of this
year’s NYWICI Foundation scholarship winners. They represent the future generation of communications
leaders and — who knows — maybe even a future Matrix winner or two.
Betsy L. Morgan
President
from the foundation president
Dear friends,
the NYWICI Foundation has just celebrated
its sixth birthday. In the past six years, the Foundation has awarded approximately
$338,000 in scholarships to a diverse number of zealous young women with a flair for
communications. In addition to the funds awarded, the NYWICI Foundation has set
up educational programs for these astonishing young women, which have served
to encourage them in the early phases of their careers and helped to cultivate the next
generation of women in communications. It is truly amazing how far the Foundation
has grown in such a short time. The Foundation exemplifies what can be accomplished
when people are determined, focused, courageous and passionate.
Inspired by their mentors and friends at NYWICI, two scholarship winners, Tammy Tibbetts and Sharon
Clott, took it upon themselves to create a student newsletter two years ago. The publication, aptly called
nywiciNEXT, is their way of keeping connected and encouraging the next round of women to enter our
industry. I am so proud of what these young women have already accomplished, and I can only imagine what
the future will hold as they continue to grow in their careers. NYWICI Board Member and Chair of Student
Affairs Joan Cear has been a long-standing and primary force behind the scholarship process. We are all in
her debt for a job extremely well done, and this year we are also grateful to Linda Krebs, Joan’s able Co-Chair.
In 2006, the Foundation torch was passed to me. I was privileged to be given the charge to lead a flourishing
organization. The NYWICI Foundation has blossomed under the leadership of its last five presidents: Eileen
Ast, Debra Shriver, Gail Blanke, Joannie Danielides and Jyll Holzman. These amazing women set the stage for
the Foundation’s accomplishments this year. On behalf of our current Foundation Board and our young
sisterhood, I thank them.
However, we cannot continue to accomplish great things without your help. 2006 was a record-breaking
year in which the NYWICI Foundation was able to award $100,000 in scholarships to deserving young
women in the tri-state area. I ask you to remember the beginnings of your careers as you consider making
a contribution to the Foundation. Your generosity will help support young women in college or graduate
school to more easily overcome the inevitable obstacles they will encounter; to make each of them realize,
as one 2006 winner put it, that her “goal is very achievable.”
Thank you all for your demonstrated interest in helping to provide support for young women who are
pursuing careers in the field of communications. With your help, the NYWICI Foundation will continue to
grow, strengthen its mission and expand its outreach.
Yours sincerely,
Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols
President, NYWICI Foundation
from the host
Each year,
the NYWICI Matrix Awards honor eight inspiring
women who help move the world forward through their passionate commitment
and outstanding achievements. This year, it is my pleasure to be able to personally
congratulate our 2007 Matrix Award winners. Distinguished by their accomplishments in media and the arts, they continue a long tradition of representing the best
in the communications industry.
As a company, AOL is a pioneer in the world of online communications. Born of the simple premise that
something magical happens when people start communicating with each other, AOL has continued
to grow and change with the times. Last year, AOL boldly revised its mission to “serve the world’s largest
and most engaged community” by embracing the Internet to transform how people live, work, shop,
listen to music, manage their finances, experience video, view photos, make travel arrangements and
much, much more. Today, AOL exemplifies the notion that change is, most definitely, good.
As women, we are uniquely adept at managing change, be it real-life personal events or self-affirming
professional achievements. As businesswomen, we’ve weathered an ever-evolving marketplace to
attain our goals and help pave the way for future female executives. More than just an opportunity, this
responsibility is a gift and something that NYWICI has been giving women since its inception in 1929.
Thanks to NYWICI’s unparalleled scholarship, outreach and networking programs, and today’s Matrix
Awards luncheon, another generation of women will be able to succeed and even surpass their wildest
hopes and dreams.
Here’s to the future and a world of change.
Lisa Judson
Senior Vice President, Marketing
AOL, LLC
Congratulations to the honorees
of the 2007 Matrix Awards
Thelma Golden
Joan Didion
Meredith Vieira
Susan Lyne
Arianna Huf fington
Pamela Fiori
Lisa Caputo
Cindy Adams
We salute your outstanding achievements
and proudly support
New York Women in Communications
As the premier organization for women communications professionals in the
New York metro area, New York Women in Communications, Inc. (NYWICI) has
a long history. Founded in 1929, today the not-for-profit association has over
1,000 members — from senior executives to students and from entrepreneurial
business owners to young professionals — each of whom represents a variety of
communications disciplines including print journalism, broadcasting, corporate
communications, electronic communications, publishing, new media, advertising,
marketing, photography, public relations, graphic design and more.
NYWICI’s mission is to empower women in all communications disciplines to reach
their full potential. The organization does this by promoting professional growth
and inspiring members to achieve and share their success. NYWICI strengthens the
role of women in communications professions by actively promoting leadership
and professional development through committee involvement and programs as
well as through networking opportunities offering support and growth. And last
but not least, NYWICI nurtures women professionals by promoting high standards
and providing educational and leadership opportunities for current members and
the next generation of communications professionals.
In short, NYWICI members share a spirit of sisterhood. NYWICI members
empower each other and serve as role models, career advisors and
mentors. They are definitely women who can change the world.
New York Women in Communications Foundation
The New York Women in Communications Foundation, formally established
in 2000 after issuing limited support since the mid-1980s, exists to help a sisterhood of women successfully enter or navigate the profession of communications.
How? Through financial support, professional guidance and ongoing friendship.
An arm of New York Women in Communications, Inc., the 501(c)3 Foundation
annually awards scholarships to high school, college and graduate school
students. The Foundation also hosts educational programs and forums,
including the annual Student Career Conference, for women just beginning
their careers or embarking on a transition in their communications career.
The NYWICI Foundation is indeed the largest foundation for communications
scholarships for women in the tri-state area. Last year alone, over 18 scholarships
were granted ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 each and totaling $100,000. In
all, 67 women have received financial support thanks to the NYWICI Foundation
to the tune of $338,000.
The 2007 NYWICI Foundation Scholarship winners will represent talent, passion
and heart all rolled into one. Thanks to the Foundation’s support, they will
acquire skills that will enable them to become future leaders within their chosen
communications professions, and they will no doubt be just as outstanding,
exceptional and diverse as the 67 scholarship winners who came before them.
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IS PROUD TO SUPPORT
The 2007 Matrix Awards
scholarship winners
Dreamgirls:
Stars on the Rise
by Suzanne I. Cohen
Not so long ago, men ruled the communications profession. Today, women
anchor the network evening news, publish online and offline newspapers,
magazines and blogs, create and lead digital media entities and so much more.
We like to think NYWICI has played a small role in that redirection of
influence and leadership. NYWICI exists to help a sisterhood of women enter
and navigate the communications profession. The organization wants women
to reach their full potential and to support one another along the way.
The NYWICI Foundation, in particular, helps cultivate the next generation
of women in communications by annually bestowing scholarships to deserving
young women. This year’s scholarship winners are dreamgirls full of talent,
passion, drive and heart. The three previous NYWICI Foundation scholarship
winners profiled below exemplify our future communications leaders and also
set fine examples for those who will follow in their footsteps.
Lauren Gould, a 2004
NYWICI Foundation scholarship
winner, describes herself as
“energetic and resourceful.” She
also feels inspired by the
adage, “Reach for the moon. Even if you miss,
you will land among the stars.” We think Lauren
herself is a star in the making.
Lauren is already a segment producer and
researcher at Martha Stewart Living Radio (a
division of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia),
where she produces content for technology,
home, health, beauty and fitness shows. A
Merrick, New York, native and University of
Maryland broadcast journalism graduate,
Lauren hopes to pursue a career that offers
the opportunity to travel and be part of a news
team, perhaps in production, anchoring or
working for a newsmagazine television show
investigating the stories of unheard of or overlooked individuals. She would also like to
write a “chick-lit” book about her professional
experiences in New York, a city about which s
he’s passionate.
Lauren is also passionate about NYWICI and the
access it has provided her. She even paid to
fly in from Maryland to attend the 2005 Matrix
Awards luncheon. And later that year, after early
graduation from college, Lauren searched the
NYWICI online directory for places to contact
about job openings. She called Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia, mentioning that Martha was
an honorary member of the same organization
to which Lauren belonged, got an interview and
secured an Assistant Editor position. She’s also
found internships at Lifetime Television and at
scholarship winners
prestige of
“The
winning the
Initiative, a global media
communications
company, through NYWICI
Matrix Award
connections and has
landed other internships
has lived far
on her own in public
beyond that
relations and television.
wonderful
To give back and connect
on a deeper level with
moment. It has
NYWICI members, Lauren
inspired me
volunteers to support a
variety of NYWICI events
to jump into
including the Student
that unknown
Career Conference and
pool every day
roundtables, and is
delighted to be in a
and to encourage
position to offer guidance
young women
and support to younger
colleagues to
women.
“Winning [a NYWICI
swim along
Foundation scholarship]
with me.
meant I was being given
the key to jump start my
Margaret Booth,
career, and I wasn’t going
1987 Matrix Award Winner
to let the Foundation
for Public Relations
Board down! I value the
personal and professional
relationships I’ve
developed with fellow
members and can’t
imagine being a young professional in New York
City without a group of such wonderful working
women on my side,” Lauren concludes.
“
Howard University sophomore Denise Horn loves
Fruity Pebbles. She’s also passionate
about the news, “Grey’s Anatomy, ”
“The Oprah Winfrey
Show,” the music of
John Legend and Stevie
Wonder, autobiographies,
YouTube and Facebook.
Just as her interests vary,
so too has Denise’s communications
career thus far.
The youngest of five children, she was raised in
Scotch Plains, New Jersey, to appreciate the value
of hard work. She learned that achieving her goals
will include failures but that from those failures
come lessons. A firm believer in the saying,
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” Denise
applied for and won a 2005 NYWICI Foundation
scholarship. It paid for almost half of her first year
at Howard University where she’s majoring in
broadcast journalism and minoring in French.
Since then, Denise has interned at the USA
Network and delivered the luncheon address at
the 2006 NYWICI Student Career Conference. She
also worked on four weekly news radio broadcasts last year and edits her school’s newspaper.
“Being a NYWICI scholarship winner was about
more than receiving funds for college,” Denise
says. “It opened the door to networking opportunities with professionals and other scholarship
recipients with whom I still keep in touch. It
helped me focus more on achieving my professional goals. Seeing all the other women in the
field made me more determined to reach my
goals because I know they are not impossible.
And receiving such a warm embrace from
NYWICI is gratifying because I know there are
people who believe in my future as much as I do.”
In addition to creating a bilingual children’s
magazine, Denise dreams of hosting “Today” or
“The Early Show” or writing for magazines such
as Cosmopolitan, Essence and Vogue. She also
wants to inform the public in very specific ways
in honor of those she admires — Oprah Winfrey,
who uses her influence to bring attention to
those less fortunate, and legendary newspaper
journalist Nellie Bly, who paved the way for
female journalists as she reported on women’s
issues, injustice and poverty in the late nineteenth century.
But for now, like the more than 300+ forwardthinking young women who attended the
NYWICI 2006 Student Career Conference, whom
Denise describes as “promising professionals of
tomorrow,” Denise will be a tough act to follow.
She calls herself “ambitious and persistent.”
NYWICI agrees, and we can’t wait to see where
Denise’s passion for communications and giving
back takes her.
scholarship winners
A Derby, Connecticut-based
junior majoring in Electronic
Media at Long Island
University’s C.W. Post
campus, 2006
NYWICI Foundation
scholarship winner Gina
Aflalo serves as President
and Station Manager of her
university’s student-run television station. One
of only 18 recipients of the very competitive
scholarships in 2006,
Gina exemplifies a future
Even if it’s
communications leader.
a small step,
She’s ambitious, energetic
and, in her own words,
every day you
“motivated and focused.”
have to do
Energized about her
work to date in the
one thing
broadcasting and video
that brings
production field, Gina
you closer to
hopes to land her dream
job as technical director
your goal.
for live television, but
recognizes that in this
Hoda Kotb,
highly competitive
“Dateline NBC” Correspondent,
market an editing
at the 2006 NYWICI Student
position is an alternative.
Career Conference
After graduation
however, her immediate
goals are to continue
to learn, hone her skills
and make a positive,
significant contribution to any organization with
which she’s affiliated.
Gina is already making significant contributions. She has worked as a freelance production
assistant on many videos, most recently on
Telemundo’s “Concierto Clandestino Concert,”
which aired in February. She has also volunteered
as a camera operator at the 2006 NYWICI Student
Career Conference and subsequently edited
footage from that event. She feels it helps her give
“
back to the women who have given her an entrée
into her field of choice.
“I truly believe the NYWICI [Foundation] scholarship was a turning point for me,” Gina says. “It
helped me see myself in a different light and to
identify with women of excellence — pioneers
and leaders in all aspects of the communications
industry.” She adds that winning has opened
doors and inspired her to lend energy and effort
to help the organization continue to further other
young women’s careers. “Perhaps this is what
makes NYWICI such a special organization.
Through its networking opportunities, it helps
young women view themselves as potential
mentors to others.”
Winning the scholarship provided a monetary
and confidence boost for Gina. She explains:
“Besides easing the financial burden of my
education, I realized that many of my achievements and much of my hard work had been
recognized at a level most students don’t get to
experience.” The snowball effect of securing the
scholarship helped Gina obtain a competitive
internship at Raw Media Network, which guided
her toward winning the only 2006 Cooperative
Education Student of the Year award from the
New York State Cooperative and Experiential
Education Association.
Centering her personal values on trust, loyalty
and dedication to self-improvement, Gina’s ability
and desire to connect with others has served
her well — and will no doubt benefit others in the
future. “We should not lose sight of the fact that
the footprints many of us walk in today were
originally paved by women who worked tirelessly
to achieve success in their fields and to ensure a
level playing field. Perhaps the most important
contribution I can make is to ensure that those
footprints continue to reflect positive strides and
point in a direction that allows those who follow
me to have even greater opportunity than I enjoy
today.”
“
Suzanne I. Cohen oversees employee communications at Forest Laboratories, a New York City pharmaceutical company.
Matrix ’07 Emcee
Rosie O’Donnell
F
or six years, Rosie O’Donnell was America’s best friend for an hour each day
as Host and Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed, nationally
syndicated talk/variety series “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.” In her phenomenal
first season on the air, Ms. O’Donnell won the Daytime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Talk Show Host. She continued her success for five consecutive
seasons by winning Daytime Emmys for both Outstanding Talk Show Host
and Outstanding Talk Show. However, in May 2002 she decided to leave her
successful show to concentrate her talents and energies elsewhere.
Moderator of the ABC Television
Rosie O’Donnell has taken her popularity and put it to good use. As a tireless
Network’s “The View’
crusader for children, she established the “Rosie’s For All Kids Foundation” in
1997. Since its inception, the foundation has raised more than $56 million and
awarded more than $22 million in grants to over 1,400 child-related, non-profit organizations to benefit
low-income families across the country. Part of the foundation’s proceeds came from “Kids Are Punny,”
Rosie’s best-selling collection of her favorite jokes sent to her by kids. In 2003, she established “Rosie’s
Broadway Kids,” a program that provides in-school, after-school and summer instruction in musical
theater to the public school children of New York City. More recently, she established a fund to provide
$3 million to children and families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
When critics claimed that Broadway was on the decline and the networks threatened to stop broadcasting
the Tony Awards, Ms. O’Donnell, an ardent fan of the theater, came to the rescue. Not only did she agree
to host “The 51st Annual Tony Awards” in 1997, but she also did a weeklong tribute to the Great White
Way on her show leading up to the event. The Tonys telecast earned its highest ratings in 10 years, with
much credit given to Ms. O’Donnell. Her second time out hosting the Tonys in 1998 she won a Primetime
Emmy Award. And as a performer, Ms. O’Donnell lived out a life-long dream when she made her
Broadway debut in 1994 as Rizzo in the revival of “Grease.” In 2001, Ms. O’Donnell followed her heart back
to Broadway to star in “Seussical,” and more recently she starred in the Broadway revival of “Fiddler on
the Roof.”
This self-confessed television savant has also made guest appearances on a number of television series
including “Will and Grace,” “All My Children,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Spin City,” “Sesame Street,” “The Nanny”
and “The Larry Sanders Show.” Last spring, she starred in CBS’s Hallmark Hall of Fame production, “Riding
the Bus with My Sister,” in which Ms. O’Donnell made her dramatic TV debut. She also appeared in a
three-arc episode on Showtime’s acclaimed hit, “Queer as Folk,” and was a guest-star on HBO’s hit series,
“Curb Your Enthusiasm.” She was first able to hone her hosting and executive producing skills back in
1988 on the top-rated cable show “Stand Up Spotlight” on VH1. And she has hosted Nickelodeon’s “Kids
Choice Awards” from 1997–2003.
Ms. O’Donnell has made a name for herself in movies as well, making her motion picture debut in 1992
in “A League of Their Own.” She subsequently appeared in “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Another Stakeout,”
“The Flintstones,” “Exit To Eden,” “Now and Then,” “Beautiful Girls,” “Harriet the Spy,” “Wide Awake” and
was the voice of Turk in “Tarzan.”
Ms. O’Donnell spent her childhood staring at posters of Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler, dreaming
of “being them” — her ideals of the all-around performer. With her multi-faceted talents, she is well on
her way to living that dream.
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Women who change the world
Cindy.
Lisa.
Joan.
Pamela.
Thelma.
Arianna.
Susan.
Meredith.
The eight women being honored at the 2007
Matrix Awards are individually and collectively
unique, fearless, free-spirited, innovative and bold.
They take chances, listen to their inner voices
and follow their guts. As a result, they’ve had
front-row seats to history in the making
and have helped shape cultural,
media and literary revolutions and
renaissances. Yet they all also care
deeply about people and are
committed to fostering change
and paving a better road to travel for
those who follow in their footsteps. New
York Women in Communications,
Inc. salutes today’s honorees.
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“
The Matrix Awards!
The event where the people
getting the recognition
invariably ask someone
more important than they
are to introduce them…
Everyone talks too long…
But the entire thing is
irresistible. It was one of the
thrills of my life to receive
the Matrix Award.
for Newspapers
Photograph by Joan Jedell
Liz Smith
”
newspapers
Cindy Adams
Only in New York, Kids…
by Karen Berger Freeman
S
he’s been responsible for over 500 front page stories as a columnist for the New York Post. She was
a founding member of FOX-TV’s “A Current Affair” and a newscaster for WABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News.”
She writes books and articles about subjects as varied as Indonesia’s first President Sukarno, matriarchs
Rose Kennedy and Jolie Gabor, the Shah of Iran, The Actors Studio’s Lee Strasberg, and her dogs, Juicy
and Jazzy. She’s been a regular contributor to ABC’s “Good Morning America” and WNBC-TVs “Live at
Five,” and she has made guest appearances on dozens of news and entertainment programs. For
decades, this stunning brunette has mixed equal parts of intelligence, humor, black ink and black
mascara to create a world in which all “kids” are welcome — so long as they are quick enough, sarcastic
enough or let’s just say New York enough to pick up on important lessons from “Mother.”
Cindy Adams recognizes “not many came up the way I did. I was raised by a divorced mother. My
grandmother was a janitor who cleaned brownstones and took in boarders. Sure, I was smart. I had
a 99.9% average in high school, but I never got my diploma. One of the requirements for graduating
was that you had to sew your own dress. I tried, but I kept making a mess of it. My mother, who had
tremendous confidence in me, told the school her daughter was never going to need to sew — but they
wouldn’t budge. That incident was a turning point in my life. At 15, my
formal education was over.”
An interest in show business led the attractive teenager to
modeling, but she was too short to make a career of it —
although as her friends love to point out she was crowned
“Miss Bagel” by the Better Bagel Makers Association. On to
acting. “My career lasted only so long as I kept pestering
casting agents. When I stopped calling, they stopped calling.
Singing? I can’t sing. Dancing? Not a dancer.”
At 16, she met and married the love of her life, successful comedian
Joey Adams, who had the same remarkable confidence in her as her
mother had. “My world changed when I married Joey. He was at the
height of his career, and suddenly I was spending my evenings dining
with Sinatra and the biggest stars of the day. Maybe I couldn’t be in
show business but I was around it, and I could write about it.”
Cindy started with small items — where celebrities were
hanging out and what they were wearing. But she did
it with such a brassy and colorful style that she was
becoming at least as interesting as the people she
wrote about. “I’d graduated to $200-a-story articles.
When Joey was invited by President Kennedy to
lead a goodwill tour to Asia, I accompanied him
Karen Berger Freeman is a New York attorney, writer and author
of “The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to the
Present,” published by Random House.
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and wrote an article about President Sukarno. At the time, all I knew about Indonesia was that you
get to Beirut and make a right, but Sukarno liked the piece and asked me to help him write his
autobiography.” That led to a four-year adventure through the palaces and jungles of Indonesia,
a successful book that was translated into a dozen languages, and a job as a news commentator for
ABC-TV.
In 1979, when Cindy cancelled a dinner with a New York Post editor to visit her friend, the Shah of Iran,
at a local hospital, the editor asked her to write about the experience. Her article appeared on the
front page of the New York Post — the first of many such front page stories — and in 1981 she became
a syndicated columnist. Today she still writes six columns a week for the New York Post and appears
twice weekly on WNBC-TV’s “Live at Five.” Her classic sign-off — “Only in New York, kids. Only in New
York” — has become as famous as the woman herself. When asked about her career she says, “There
may have been those who worked as hard as I did, but never harder. I never cut corners. I never looked
for the easy way out.”
In addition to countless readers who adore her, Cindy Adams has an impressive group of friends who
admire her work. Barbara Walters believes “there are two reasons for Cindy’s success: first, she is a fine
investigative journalist; second, she writes in her own distinctive, readable style. She is very often right,
but when she’s wrong she’s the first to admit it, and that is both wonderful and rare.” Harper’s Bazaar
Publisher Valerie Salembier calls her “gritty and spirited, with New York in her DNA — someone
who cares about people. She’s just as likely to be helping a grandmother in Israel at 2 a.m. as talking
to a big-name politician.” “Judge Judy” Sheindlin suggests “take a Cindy Adams column — remove
the name, the photo, the masthead until all you have left are the words. Instantly you know it’s Cindy’s
work. There are millions of wonderful people in this world. But how many are truly unique? Maybe
only a few, a handful. Cindy is one of that handful.”
“
I never cut corners.
I never looked for the
easy way out.
“
Cindy Adams
Columnist, New York Post and
Regular Guest Commentator
on WNBC’s “Live at Five”
Presenter: Rupert Murdoch
Chairman and Chief Executive,
The News Corporation Limited
Rupert Murdoch is Chairman and Chief Executive of News
Corporation, one of the world’s largest diversified media
companies. News Corporation’s global operations include the
creation and distribution of media products and services in
the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox
Entertainment Group.
In 1954, Mr. Murdoch took control of News Limited, an
Australian-based public corporation whose key asset was a
majority interest in the No. 2 daily newspaper in Adelaide,
(continued on next page)
(Rupert Murdoch continued)
South Australia. Since then, Mr. Murdoch has overseen
the expansion and development of News Corporation
as it has become the world’s leading publisher of
English-language newspapers, a premier provider
of filmed entertainment, one of the top American
television networks, the foremost group of local
television stations across the U.S. and the creator of
some of cable television’s fastest-growing channels.
Mr. Murdoch has been awarded the Companion of the
Order of Australia (A.C.) for services to the media and
to newspaper publishing in particular. Throughout
News Corporation’s history, he and his family have
been closely involved with various educational, cultural,
medical and charitable organizations throughout the
United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and
Israel.
Mr. Murdoch is married and has six children.
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Congratulations to our founder and friend
Lisa Caputo on her Matrix Award.
Your vision is truly an inspiration to all your friends at Women & Co.
Some leaders are born women.
Congratulations to Lisa Caputo and your fellow 2007 Matrix Award
recipients for your outstanding achievements in our field.
Your friends at the Publicis Groupe.
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“
It is a gift to be able to
celebrate our professional
achievements with each
other.The Matrix Award
made my day!
”
Terrie Williams
marketing
Lisa Caputo
A Team Player
Willing to Veer Off Course
by Julie Robinson-Tingue
G
rowing up outside of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Lisa Caputo found the inspiration to succeed in
life beneath her own roof. “I have tremendous parents and I have always looked up to them,” says Lisa,
the eldest of three children and now a wife and mother of two toddlers. “We had great, open, two-way
communication, and they instilled in us incredible values, a great work ethic and how to be true to
yourself in everything you do.” Lisa also credits her field hockey coach (a woman), who she says taught
her the importance of teamwork and dedication, both on and off the field.
It was that solid foundation and work ethic that enabled Lisa, in January 2000, to found and lead
Women & Company, Citigroup, Inc.’s enormously successful membership program that provides
solutions to meet the unique financial needs of women. Today, Women & Company members account
for approximately $20 billion in assets under management at Citigroup.
In 2003, Lisa was promoted to Senior Managing Director for Business Operations and Planning for the
Global Consumer Group, while maintaining her role as President and CEO of Women & Company.
She manages approximately 100 people and oversees a budget of $2 billion in global media spending.
“Be willing to take chances and don’t have a grand plan,” says the magna
cum laude political science and journalism graduate of Brown University
and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, respectively.
“Be open-minded because all kinds of opportunities can present
themselves to you. But if you’re beholden to that plan, you could be
closing your eyes to opportunities right in front of you that may
be more rewarding and ultimately may put you further along on
your career path.”
Lisa’s own willingness to take risks has led her through fruitful
career endeavors in both the public and private sectors. Prior to
embarking on a career in business — during which she held senior
posts at Disney Publishing Worldwide and CBS Corporation prior to
joining Citigroup — she spent more than a decade in the political
machine of Washington, D.C.
“I was finishing my Masters degree with the Medill News Service in
Washington when I was assigned to a news station in Iowa,” she
recalls. “As much as I loved television, I wasn’t ready to make the
sacrifices necessary to make it in that industry. So, I thought if
I could learn what press secretaries do and experience the
legislative process firsthand, then I could go back and be
a better journalist.”
Julie Robinson-Tingue is a public relations and corporate communications
executive with over 13 years in media and health care-related industries. She is
also a freelance writer, voiceover specialist and on-camera talent for television
videos and infomercials.
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In 1987, she hit the pavement on Capitol Hill, applied through a blind job listing, and received a call
from the office of U.S. Representative Bob Traxler of Michigan where she later became a Press Secretary
and Federal Grants Coordinator. A year later, when the Dukakis-Bentsen Presidential campaign heated
up, she took a leave of absence and worked on the campaign, only to return to Washington to serve
as Press Secretary to U.S. Senator Tim Wirth of Colorado. She then joined the Clinton-Gore campaign
to run the Vice Presidential media operation at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Following
the convention, she continued to serve the Clinton-Gore campaign and wound up in the White House,
ultimately with a job as First Lady Hillary Clinton’s Press Secretary.
“My Washington years were thrilling, action-packed and incredibly rewarding,” Lisa remembers.
“[They] taught me a lot about myself, interpersonal communication skills, managing both people and
crisis situations, and making quick decisions. All of this, and I had a front-row seat to history in the
making.”
However, although she was fully enjoying one of life’s “thrill rides,” Lisa realized she was missing out
on life — particularly her own. “I had no semblance of balance in my life. Being a press secretary is
24-7 — as it should be. But I was missing important things like friends’ weddings, baby showers and
family reunions.”
She says the job offer from CBS came along at the right time. “In some respects, it was like divine
intervention. It really appealed to me because it was the opportunity for me to return to the industry
I loved and in which I was originally trained.”
These days, Lisa is living the life she has yearned for, but admits it’s a constant challenge. “Some days
you’re juggling 15 balls and doing really well. Then the next day, 10 of the balls may fall and crash. In
many respects, having a family has taught me not to be so hard on myself on the bad days and if some
of the balls fall, it’s okay. Tomorrow is another day.” Sage advice indeed.
“
Be willing to take
chances and don’t
have a grand plan.
“
Lisa Caputo
Chief Marketing, Advertising and Community
Relations Officer, Global Consumer
Group, Citigroup; President & CEO,
Women & Company, Citigroup
Presenter: Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. Senator
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate
in November 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She is the first
woman ever elected statewide in New York. Senator Clinton
has been an advocate for children and families for more than
30 years. As First Lady and now as Senator, she is recognized
around the world as a leading voice for democracy, religious
tolerance, human rights and the rights of women and girls,
emphasizing access to education, economic opportunity and
family planning. During the last two years, as a member of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Clinton has made
(Hillary Rodham Clinton continued)
numerous visits to Iraq and Afghanistan, her latest
in January 2007. She also sits on the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee, the Senate
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee,
and the Senate Special Commission on Aging.
On January 20, 2007, Senator Clinton announced
her candidacy for President of the United States.
We warmly salute our colleague Lisa Caputo,
and thank her for her visionary leadership.
Thank you to New York Women in Communications, Inc. for honoring
Lisa Caputo and her fellow honorees.
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“
Receiving the Matrix
Award was akin to
being elected to the
most influential and
distinguished sorority
in the world.
”
Kati Marton
for Books
books
Joan Didion
A Wordsmith Since Childhood
by Julia Levy
I
n the 1960s, Joan Didion’s writing was called “New Journalism.” Along with writers Tom Wolfe and
Hunter Thompson, she led the revolution to create “journalism that [read] like fiction and [rang] with
the truth of reported fact,” according to Marc Weingarten in his work, “The Gang That Wouldn’t Write
Straight.”
Today, her writing is consistently hailed as innovative and bold. Her acclaimed memoir, “The Year of
Magical Thinking,” has been praised for its frank navigation through the grief she experienced following
the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne, while coping with the illness of her daughter Quintana
Roo. It has been called “an act of consummate literary bravery” and praised for its “stunning candor.”
Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe
In 2005, this memoir won the National Book Award for non-fiction, selected from a pool of 542
nominees, the largest ever. The judges called the work a “masterpiece in two genres: memoir and
investigative journalism,” and cited its “unflinching journey into intimacy and grief.”
This past March “The Year of Magical Thinking” came to life on Broadway. Joan wrote the script and
consulted on the production. “The play has been an intense pleasure to work through. It is an entirely
new thing for me, and the people with whom I am working have been stimulating, challenging and
tolerant,” she says.
Throughout her career, Joan has effortlessly alternated between genres with the ease of
turning a page. Her body of work includes such novels as “Democracy,”“Play It As It Lays”
and “The Last Thing He Wanted.” Her non-fiction works include “Slouching Towards
Bethlehem,”“The White Album,”“Salvador” and “Where I Was From.” And she
co-wrote several screenplays with her husband including “A Star Is Born” and
“Up Close & Personal.”
“You just kind of do whatever form the material seems to require,” she says.
“You feel it. There’s no difference among the forms in your level of
commitment.” And the enjoyment Joan derives from working with words
in various forms is nothing new.
“From earliest childhood I was interested in how words worked together.
I would try different ways of putting them together, see what they could do,
and after a while a teacher or someone else who had read them
might be nice enough to say that something I had tried was
pretty good. Being told you are good at something tends to
reinforce your inclination to do it,” Joan explains.
She was more than good. After graduating from the
University of California at Berkeley, she headed to New
York City where for eight years she worked at Vogue,
rising to the post of Associate Features Editor. Her career
continued as a freelance writer, winning her such
Julia Levy, a 2005 Cornell graduate, writes “One Year Out,” a bi-weekly alumna
column for the Cornell Daily Sun and blogs for gothamist.com. She also works as a
Research Assistant at Tanner & Co., Inc.
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accolades as the 2002 George Polk Book Award and the 2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters
Gold Medal in Belles Lettres and Criticism.
As she reflects upon the pivotal moments in her life’s work, Joan says that most of them were
unexpected.
“I would have to say I never saw the defining moments of my career coming. They were all accidental.
Meeting Robert Silvers at The New York Review of Books was, for example, a defining moment,
because he encouraged me to think and write about politics, which I might otherwise never have had
the courage to do. But I didn’t at the time think of it as a defining moment. Going to San Salvador
in 1982 turned out to be a defining moment, because the book I wrote about it was my first attempt to
do an extended piece of reportage. But it started as an irritation at breakfast over not being able to
understand what I was reading in the paper,” she admits.
Those unexpected moments have led to a fruitful and rewarding career. For those who follow in her
footsteps to change the world through writing, she advises them “just to do it. Then rewrite it.
And rewrite it again. Rewrite it every day until it stops seeming off, or unfinished, or plain wrong.”
Joan practices what she preaches. She has turned her rewrites into masterpieces.
“
I would have to say
I never saw the defining
moments of my career
coming. They were all
accidental.
“
Joan Didion
Author
Presenter: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter
and director. Her credits include “Heartburn,”“When Harry
Met Sally,”“Sleepless in Seattle”,“You’ve Got Mail” and
“Imaginary Friends.” Her latest book,“I Feel Bad About My
Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman,” is a No. 1
best-seller. Ms. Ephron, a 1997 NYWICI Matrix Award Winner
in Arts & Entertainment, lives in New York City.
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“
Winning a Matrix Award
[told me] I was officially
successful. I had officially
arrived.
Helen Gurley Brown
for Magazines
Photograph by Francesco Scavullo
”
magazines
Pamela Fiori
An Editor With a Mission
by Ramona Flood
W
alking into Pamela Fiori’s cool, serene, elegant office — high in the tower of the Hearst
Corporation’s stunningly redesigned new midtown headquarters –– one quickly realizes that it is no
accident that this cool, serene, elegant woman long ago became a power to be reckoned with in the
hard-charging, competitive world of magazine publishing. The first woman to be named Editor in Chief
of Town & Country in 1993, Pamela has turned it into the leading luxury publication in the United States.
Under her watchful guidance, Town & Country has left its stodgy “blue blood” image behind. Today,
the magazine’s pages are filled with a fresh focus on the “new achievers” of the 21st century as well as
an expanded emphasis on such topics as health, diversity, investments and a key tenet of Pamela’s ––
philanthropy.
“Our magazine is for today’s affluent woman,” says Pamela. “But this is a new breed of woman, intent on
education and achievement.”
Growing up in a small New Jersey town, her father a florist and her mother a housewife, Pamela did
not begin life as part of the silver spoon set. Nor does she see herself as part of that world today. “I am a
journalist first and foremost,” says Pamela. Her readers and colleagues agree.
“When Pamela took over the reins of Town & Country,” says Cathleen Black, President of Hearst Magazines,
“she immediately, but carefully, modernized the magazine by bringing in a new cadre
of distinguished writers and photographers and subtly changing the look and feel
of its beautiful pages. Now, those who are featured in the magazine represent
a greater diversity of achievement and cultures than ever before.”
Michael Clinton, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and
Publishing Director at Hearst Magazines, is particularly impressed
with Pamela’s eye for talent and managerial skills. “One of Pamela’s
clear strengths is determining how to grow and motivate our talent.
She has taught us all how to value the people who produce our
magazines. We have all been inspired by her commitment to her
people.”
At the same time, Pamela is a leading advocate for philanthropy.
Recently elected to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Fund for
UNICEF, she is a founding co-chairperson of the UNICEF Snowflake
Project, and she was awarded the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian
Award at the 2005 Snowflake Ball.
In 2005, Pamela traveled to Sri Lanka to report on the aftermath of the
tsunami, and in 2006, she went to New Orleans to report on
the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The 26-page essay on
Katrina she and her team put together was told through
compassionate eyes and “had a profound impact on her
Ramona Flood is Manager, Development Communications, at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center. She is also a creative writer with mystery novels and
screenplays in the pipeline.
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influential readers,” suggests Dorothy Kalins, a long-time friend who is the founding editor of Saveur
and the former executive editor of Newsweek (and a 1999 Matrix Award winner). “Pamela is a true
advocate for the good and the beautiful in this often ugly world.”
And given Pamela’s unassailable credentials, she is no less a devoted advocate for excellence in magazine
journalism. She launched her magazine career as a fact checker at Holiday, the classic travel magazine.
She then successfully navigated the male-dominated world of the American Express Company, joining
Travel & Leisure as an Associate Editor, rising to Editor in Chief in four short years and remaining for
fourteen more years.
In 1989, she took on the role of full-time Editorial Director for the American Express Publishing
Corporation, a job she had begun while still at the helm of Travel & Leisure. In this capacity she edited
seven publications including Food & Wine and Departures.
Today, Pamela oversees the greatly expanded Town & Country franchise, which includes the monthly
edition of Town & Country, two issues per year of Town & Country Weddings, four issues per year of
Town & Country Travel and many varied special projects.
But it’s her dual focus on publishing excellence and charitable works that drives Pamela today.
She is equally committed to building a better world through judicious and intelligent reporting and
compassionate storytelling. Even in the pages of Town & Country, which historically has covered
glittering parties, luscious resorts and storybook weddings, Pamela seeks to bring attention to parts
of the world where glamour has taken a backseat to reality.
“
“
I am a journalist
first and foremost.
Pamela Fiori
Editor in Chief, Town & Country
Presenter: Danny Meyer
President,
Union Square Hospitality Group
Danny Meyer is the President of Union Square Hospitality
Group, which includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern,
Eleven Madison Park, Tabla, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, Shake
Shack, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 at New York City’s
Museum of Modern Art, and Hudson Yards Catering. Mr.
Meyer, his restaurants and chefs have earned an unprecedented 17 James Beard Awards. He co-authored “The Union
Square Cafe Cookbook” (HarperCollins, 1994) and “Second
Helpings from Union Square Cafe” (HarperCollins, 2001)
with his partner, Chef Michael Romano. In October 2006,
(Danny Meyer continued)
HarperCollins released his latest book,“Setting the
Table,” examining the power of hospitality in restaurants, business and life. An active national leader in
the fight against hunger, Mr. Meyer has long served
on the boards of Share Our Strength and City Harvest.
He is equally active in civic affairs, serving on the
executive committees of NYC & Co., the Union Square
Partnership and the Madison Square Park Conservancy.
Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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“
Winning the Matrix Award
got me a book deal at
Random House.
”
Nina DiSesa
for Advertising
arts and entertainment
Thelma Golden
Shaking Up the Art World
by Loraine Miller
I
t’s hard to comprehend how so much power can be packed into such a petite person as Thelma
Golden. From the time she entered the mainstream contemporary art scene as the first black Curator of
the Whitney Museum, Thelma has trailblazed her way through the art world. As Director and Chief
Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, she has engineered its renaissance to create an international
nexus for artists of African descent and made 125th Street a necessary stop for all interested in
contemporary art.
Photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Before her association with The Studio Museum, Thelma spent 11 years at the Whitney, where she shook
up the art world by co-curating a provocative gender and race-oriented Biennial in 1993, followed up
a year later with her career-defining “Black Male” exhibition that ignited national debate about racial
stereotypes. She was just 29 at the time.
It helps to get an early start, and Thelma has always known what she wanted to
do with her life. Growing up in Queens, New York, Thelma spent a lot of time
visiting museums and began studying art history in the sixth grade. A turning
point in her life then occurred when her high school teacher, Verne Oliver,
gave her a copy of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” “It was almost like she gave
me a passport because it opened me to the world of ideas. It opened me to the
importance of understanding history and culture. And most importantly, it
opened me to the idea of having a life that included important and significant
works of art — always,” Thelma remembers. By her senior year in high school,
Thelma was already a curatorial apprentice at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
While at Smith College, Thelma pursued a double major in art history and African
American studies. But she found that the art history teachers didn’t discuss
African Americans, and the African American teachers didn’t discuss
art. Rather than be discouraged, Thelma envisioned a career
that would bridge her two central passions.
Thelma also had the opportunity as a college student to be
in a class taught by the novelist, writer, playwright and
activist James Baldwin. “As much as I had to that point
read Baldwin’s works,” Thelma recalls, “the experience
of engaging with the creator of those great works was,
for me, an incredible experience, and I thought, okay,
this is what I want my life to be.”
Thelma today is often called a “curator’s curator,” and
her work has brought African American artists into
the mainstream in part because of her deep personal
Loraine Miller is a Financial Advisor at Smith Barney and writes frequently on
women’s issues.
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engagement with artists.“I am deeply interested in art, but I am also incredibly passionate about artists,”
she notes. “I see myself as an agent, as a facilitator, perhaps as a producer, as somebody who helps
facillitate what it is essentially that artists do. My best work is when I just provide a clear and open path
for an artist to present what they do to the public.”
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the esteemed Director of African and African American Studies at Harvard
University, can attest to Thelma’s passions and her strengths: “She has brains and brawn, imagination
and will, and savvy and style to spare. But it is always the art that comes first with Thelma. Her taste
in art is exquisite, and her ability to work with artists, patrons, municipal authorities and other parties
is unrivalled.”
Reflecting on winning a Matrix Award, Thelma admits that “it encourages the idea that the kind of work
I do is important. And while it is an honor for me, I hope it is an honor for many people like me who
might imagine that it is possible to have dreams, to imagine what you want to do, and be able to make
that happen. Also as someone who is still quite young in my career, I take it as a challenge. It’s a nice way
to create a real, incredibly lovely, fantastic prod toward my best work, which I hope has yet to happen.”
Clearly Thelma Golden is changing the world by bringing her vast talent, knowledge and vision to
bear on our cultural institutions. And perhaps Gates sums it up best when he says, “Those of us who love
African American art — indeed the institution of art itself — are deeply indebted to Thelma Golden.”
“
My best work is when
I just provide a clear and
open path for an artist to
present what they do
to the public.
“
Thelma Golden
Director and Chief Curator,
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Presenter: Anna Deavere Smith
Actress, Playwright, Teacher and Author
Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher and
author. She is thought to have created a new form of theater,
which is part journalism, part theater. Most of her plays
take controversial subjects and present them from multiple
points of view. She plays as many as 46 characters in the
course of an evening. Of her Broadway show,“Twilight:
Los Angeles,” The New York Times said of her performance,
“[she is] the ultimate impressionist: she does people’s souls.”
Jack Kroll of Newsweek proclaimed the work “an American
masterpiece.” Ms. Smith’s work in the theater has garnered
(Anna Deavere Smith continued)
her several awards, among them the prestigious
MacArthur Award, two Tony nominations and two
Obies. Her books include “Letters to a Young Artist”
and “Talk to Me,” and several of her plays have been
published as well.
Ms. Smith has also acted in film and television. She
played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on
NBC’s hit show “The West Wing,” and had roles in the
films “The American President” and “The Human Stain.”
She is currently University Professor at New York
University (NYU), where she is appointed at the Tisch
School of the Arts and affiliated with the NYU School
of Law. She was previously at Stanford University from
1990 to 2000. She is founder of the Institute on the
Arts and Civic Dialogue, launched at Harvard and now
at NYU. She has several honorary degrees from such
academic institutions as Northwestern University,
Smith College, Bryn Mawr College, Wesleyan University,
College of the Holy Cross and Cooper Union.
She is also on the board of the Museum of Modern Art,
where she chairs the Committee on Film.
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“
When I became a Matrix
honoree, I was so excited
I spent the next two
months rewriting my
two-minute acceptance
speech. I consider
the award a lifetime
achievement.
”
Linda Kaplan Thaler
for Advertising
digital media
Arianna Huffington
Never Afraid to Speak Her Mind
by Joann Coviello
T
o describe Arianna Huffington as a whirlwind of activity would be the understatement of the year.
As Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post weblog (frequently referred to as HuffPo),
Arianna has created the go-to internet site for news and political commentary and an online community
of bloggers. Indeed, in less than two years, The Huffington Post has become the fifth most popular
weblog, boasting three million unique visitors a month and more than 30 million page views.
While part of HuffPo’s success can be attributed to its roster of well-known contributors as well as its
citizen bloggers, there’s also Arianna herself — thoughtful, incisive and outspoken. Born in Athens,
Greece, in 1950, Arianna credits her mother as being the most influential and inspirational person in her
life. It was perhaps her mother’s fearlessness standing up to the Nazis during World War II that allowed
Arianna to pursue her ambition to become a writer, despite the difficulties and financial
challenges she encountered along the way. At the age of 16, Arianna enrolled at
Cambridge University in England and graduated with an M.A. in Economics.
By age 21, she had become president of the college’s famed debating society,
The Cambridge Union.
In her early twenties, Arianna authored her first book, “The Female
Woman,” a book that turned out to be a surprise success. Despite the
publishing contracts that were offered to follow up with another book on
women, she chose a topic for her second book that had fascinated her
for years: the role of leaders in shaping the world. After 36 rejections and
the very real worries of how to pay the bills, self-doubt about being a writer
set in. With little more than hope, passion and “a lot of Greek chutzpah,”
she applied for and received a bank loan that enabled her to complete that
second book.
This experience of following her instincts in the face of potential failure
marked a critical turning point in her professional life. Over the years,
nine more books followed, the most recent one being “On Becoming
Fearless…in Love, Work and Life.” In it, she encourages women to
accept themselves, master their fears and pursue their goals despite
being afraid.
In fact, being fearless is part of Arianna’s advice for working
women. “In order to conquer the workplace as women,
approach it in your own unique way,” she says. “Take
credit for your accomplishments and let go of the fear
of being too ambitious or aggressive. Find your own
personal style, be supportive of others and surround
yourself with positive people who will be there for
you regardless of success or failure.”
Joann Coviello is a freelance conference planner and copywriter.
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When you combine her sharp intellect with her physical presence — the statuesque figure, the flowing
hair and the immediately recognizable accent — it isn’t hard to see why Arianna is one of the most
provocative communicators of our time. She has reinvented herself numerous times over the course
of a career that has kept her in the public eye for over three decades. She has written 11 books, co-hosts
public radio’s “Left, Right & Center” program, was one of Time Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential
People, and is one of the most sought after guest commentators on TV news and talk show programs.
And oh yes, let’s not forget The Huffington Post — a powerful source of information on breaking news,
political commentary and so much more.
It’s no surprise that Arianna Huffington is receiving the 2007 Matrix Award and has taken the digital
world by storm. Like the woman herself, The Huffington Post is an ever-evolving, thought-provoking
powerhouse that will continually break new ground and deliver opinions in the blink of an eye 24/7.
“
Take credit for your
accomplishments and let go
of the fear of being too
ambitious or aggressive.
“
Arianna Huffington
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief,
The Huffington Post
Presenter: Barbara Walters
ABC News Correspondent
Barbara Walters has arguably interviewed more statesmen
and stars than any other journalist in history. She has interviewed every American President and First Lady since
Richard Nixon. She made journalism history by arranging the
first joint interview with Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and
Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin in November 1977.
Another of her “firsts” was an hour-long, prime-time conversation with Cuban President Fidel Castro — an interview
that has been printed in half a dozen languages and shown
all over the world.
(Barbara Walters continued)
Ms. Walters first joined ABC News in 1976 as the first
woman to co-host the network news. Through the
years, she has interviewed such world figures as
Russia’s Boris Yeltsin, China’s Premier Jiang Zemin,
Great Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Libya’s Muammar Qadaffi and Iraq’s President
Sadaam Hussein. She was also the first American journalist to interview Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
and the first interview with President and Mrs. Bush
following September 11th.
In September 2004, after 25 years as Co-Host and
Chief Correspondent of ABC News’“20/20,” Ms.
Walters retired from the show to begin a new phase
in her career at the network.
She remains an active member of the news division
and network, substantially increasing the number
of prime-time ABC News specials. In addition, her
“Barbara Walters Specials” are continuously the
top-rated specials of the year, and her “The 10 Most
Fascinating People” special broadcast, launched in
1993, offers a year-end review of the most prominent
newsmakers of the year as well as the selection of the
“most fascinating” individual.
Ms. Walters is also Co-Owner, Co-Executive Producer
and Co-Host of ABC’s “The View,” recipient of the 2003
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show.
Prior to joining ABC, Ms. Walters appeared on NBC’s
“Today” for 15 years, and as a member of the NBC
News team she went to the People’s Republic of
China to cover the visits of President Richard Nixon
in 1972 and President Gerald Ford in 1975. Early in her
career, she was a writer for CBS News and, before that,
she was the youngest producer with NBC-TV’s New
York station (WNBC-TV).
Over the years, Ms. Walters has received national
recognition for her work and has been the recipient of
numerous prestigious honors and awards including
the 1978 NYWICI Matrix Award for Broadcasting.
A native of Boston, Ms. Walters is the daughter of the
famed entertainment impresario Lou Walters, and she
has one daughter.
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“
For those of us who have
toiled behind the scenes for
most of our careers, Matrix
provided the chance to step
into the spotlight.
”
Debra Shriver
corporate communications
Susan Lyne
A Born Leader
by Marilyn Petrokubi
I
t's dress-down Friday at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSLO), where Susan Lyne is
President and Chief Executive Officer. Wearing a cropped Luciano Barbera herringbone jacket and grey
jeans, Susan, a slim blonde, has an easy grace about her that immediately makes one feel welcome.
This is not the starched, high-powered executive from the publishing and entertainment industries
many might expect.
Susan, the eldest of three sisters and a brother, says she started exercising her leadership skills at the
age of five. “My first sister was born literally a year after I was. Then twins arrived two years later. I was
the big sister from the time I was one and was expected to step up to that.”
Coming from a large Irish Catholic, Boston family and a long line of Harvard-educated lawyers, the
mantra in her family was “make something of your life,” and she certainly has. But she’ll be the first to
tell you that it wasn’t according to a great plan that she envisioned early in life. “My siblings and I all
came of age in the late 1960s and none of us did the things in college my parents expected.”
Susan, in fact, left conservative Boston and headed west to the University of California at Berkeley —
a hotbed of dissent and political unrest. It was there that she was exposed to
the radical thinkers of her day, and in turn she did something really radical. She dropped out of school to take a job at the Berkeley Tribe. “I was
paid in newspapers every week, but I learned how to report, how
to write, how to lay out a newspaper…and I developed a voice.”
From that first jump into journalism Susan’s career
blossomed, guided by good luck, hard work and excellent
personal contacts. Not many people can count among
their close associates Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Fonda,
Bruce Gilbert, Joe Roth, Bob Albert and Martha Stewart
— friends who have provided stepping stones for an
exceptional career path from journalism to feature
films to television and now “omnimedia” — a mix of
publishing, television, internet and merchandising.
“Luck is a big factor in any successful person’s life,
and I’ve had my share of it,” relays Susan. But her
good friend Amanda Urban, Executive Vice President
at ICM, counters. “I’ve known Susan since her days at
New Times Magazine in the late 1970s. Don’t let her tell
you she’s lucky. Susan’s always made her own luck. She’s
made a lot of good decisions as opposed to bad ones.”
Marilyn Petrokubi is President of TimeSteps Productions, Inc., a creative media company.
She is also a freelance writer and producer/director.
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“With all my jobs in the past, I’ve never been afraid of a challenge,” Susan admits. And that lack of
fear has served her well.
“Let’s just say she’s about the most unflappable person I’ve ever seen,” adds Cyndi Stivers, another
long-time friend and former Executive Vice President at Martha Stewart. “I think she’s living proof
that if you’re open to something and try it, you just might succeed.
When asked for one piece of guidance for women still forging ahead on their career paths Susan
advises: “I think it’s a mistake to try to plan a career — to say I have to be here by this age, and this is
ultimately what I want to do — because it keeps you from recognizing opportunities along the
way. I tell people, learn what you’re good at and apply it to make yourself happy and productive. And
continue to learn.”
“My high school English teacher, Miss Thompson, said it time and again, and it really stuck: ‘There
is so much out there to challenge you if you open up your eyes.’ Keep looking and keep reading. Make
sure you don’t narrow your world too much. A teacher like that can have such a profound impact.”
And so can a woman like Susan Lyne.
“
With all my jobs in
the past, I’ve never been
afraid of a challenge.
“
Susan Lyne
President & CEO,
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
Presenter: Martha Stewart
Founder,
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
From her award-winning magazine, Martha Stewart Living,
to her best-selling product lines, Martha Stewart shares the
creative principles and practical ideas that have made her
America’s most trusted guide to stylish living. Millions of
consumers rely on her as their arbiter of style and taste and
their guide to all aspects of everyday living — from cooking and
entertaining to decorating and home renovating and much
more. Martha’s unique business sense and creative vision is
the framework for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the
expansive multimedia portfolio that includes award-winning
media and merchandise as well as the nationally syndicated
television show,“The Martha Stewart Show.” Among Ms.
Stewart’s many awards and honors is the 1996 NYWICI Matrix
Award for Magazines.
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“
I felt I joined a savvy
club for grownup girls —
incredibly talented and
tenacious women who
worked hard and survived
bruising battles.
”
Paula Zahn
for Broadcasting
broadcasting
Meredith Vieira
A Multi-Tasking Media Maven
by Robin Jay
T
he alarm clock sounds at 3 a.m. for this mother of three whose day starts off with tasks like those
of many mothers across America — feeding the dog, cat and fish; a moment of relaxing while listening
to the television or radio; and catching up on the latest headlines on her laptop. But when seven-time,
Emmy Award-winning Meredith Vieira sets off to work at 4:30 a.m., her job is anything but ordinary.
Who else could interview Senator Barack Obama about the war in Iraq, discuss amazing ultrasound
images of prenatal triplets with a medical expert, and kick back to chat with Madonna — all before her
9 a.m. jog to the gym for a mid-morning workout?
Versatility should be Meredith’s middle name. Her positive impact on women’s roles within the media
has touched nearly every genre of the industry. Her diverse portfolio ranges from radio and television
news to daytime talk shows, TV news magazines and documentaries — and even includes soap operas,
the Miss America Pageant, a Broadway play and a cameo in the 2004 movie “The Stepford Wives.”
And that’s not all. Ask Meredith about one of her most rewarding career experiences and she may tell
you about clown therapy. She recently suited up as a clown to visit children at Morgan Stanley
Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. “I was amazed at how I was able to
connect with children who likely never heard of me simply by painting on a few
freckles and taking on a clown persona. Words can’t describe how gratifying
it was to see the children smile and laugh,” Meredith says.
But most of Meredith’s current accolades are for her role as Co-Host of
NBC News’“Today,” which she joined last September after leaving
a successful multi-year run as the Moderator of ABC’s “The View.”
Simultaneously, she hosts the daytime game show “Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire?,” taping some 200 shows between September and November
each year — more episodes than any other female host in history. And
she has a Daytime Emmy Award to prove it.
In fact, it seems that no matter what media platform Meredith takes on,
award-winning is the adjective that describes her performance. She
earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host as
Moderator of “The View” each year from 1997 to 2006. Her
2003 ABC News special report on childhood obesity garnered
an Emmy Award, as did a 1995 story she wrote for “Turning
Point” on radical white supremacy. When reporting for CBS’s
“60 Minutes” and “West 57th,” Meredith wrote Emmy
Award-winning stories on Christians who saved Jews
during the Holocaust and on San Francisco’s first AIDS ward.
Even her passion for philanthropic work is widely
applauded. She’s been named Woman of the Year by the
Robin Jay is Vice President of Creative Services for Dorland Healthcare
Information, headquartered in Philadelphia. She also serves as Executive Editor
for two national healthcare magazines — “enrich” for consumers and “Case in
Point” for nurse case managers.
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City of Hope and Mother of the Year by the Pajama Program, an organization that gives needy children
pajamas and bedtime books.
Yet, despite having enough prestigious awards to warrant a large room to display them, Meredith is
as humble as the mother-next-door when asked about them. “Don’t get me wrong, having all the Emmy
Awards is a dream-come-true. But truth be told, stuff happens when you have three children at home
running up and down the staircase where the trophies are placed. I have a shoe box with wings, arms
and other broken trophy parts,” Meredith says with a chuckle.
During Meredith’s 20-plus-year career, opportunities for women in the media have increased tremendously.
When asked about her role in all this progress, she offers this response: “At my first job in 1975, I could
sense resentment from some of the men who felt I was there simply to fill a female quota. In a way,
it seemed some wanted me to fail. But I looked the other way and got through it. Today, I encourage
women to forge their own career paths — not to dwell on getting off track, but rather to listen to their
inner voice and follow their gut in life.”
That’s the exact advice Meredith, a self-described free spirit, followed as she ventured into her own
career. “I have an English degree from Tufts University, but I changed majors like some women change
shoes. I flip-flopped from astronomy to literature to math and theatre, but I never worried about it
because I knew I would land on my feet,” she says. “You wouldn’t believe how I ended up in broadcasting.
Tufts didn’t offer that major, but I happened to take a one-time course on the subject. A CBS correspondent
critiqued a radio narration I did. After class, he told me I had a future in radio. I was shocked. But sure
enough, my first job out of college was radio news announcing.”
It’s been an exciting journey ever since.
“
I encourage women to forge
their own career paths…listen
to their inner voice…and
follow their gut.
“
Meredith Vieira
Co-Anchor, NBC News’
“Today”
Presenter: Joy Behar
Co-Host,“The View”
Joy Behar, currently a Co-Host of ABC’s multiple awardwinning “The View,” is among today’s leading comic talents.
Whether performing standup comedy or interviewing
politicians and artists, she is a comedic original and a leading
woman both on stage and screen.
Ms. Behar has starred in her own HBO special and was
a regular on the series “Baby Boom.” Other TV appearances
include the voice of a hilariously neurotic patient on “Dr.
Katz,” which won the CableACE Award,“The Tonight Show
(Joy Behar continued)
with Jay Leno,”“Real Time with Bill Maher,”“Live with
Regis and Kelly,”“Celebrity Poker Showdown” and
“The Late Show with David Letterman.”
For three years, Ms. Behar hosted a popular call-in
show on WABC Radio, where she discussed politics
with her deadly humorous bent.
Her film appearances include “Cookie,” with Peter
Falk,“This Is My Life,” directed by Nora Ephron, and
Woody Allen’s “Manhattan Murder Mystery.” In the
world of theater, she had a successful run in the offBroadway hit “The Food Chain,” earning rave reviews
in the starring role, and also in the critically-acclaimed
“The Vagina Monologues.”
Ms. Behar has won numerous awards and performed
to a sold-out crowd at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center
as part of the annual New York Comedy Festival. She
also has a monthly column,“Getting Personal,” in
Good Housekeeping, where she dispenses advice with
her usual mix of common sense and humor. And she
recently teamed up with illustrator Gene Barretta to
write her first children’s book:“Sheetzucacapoopoo:
My Kind of Dog.” It followed Ms. Behar’s first book,
“Joy Shtick: or What Is the Existential Vacuum and
Does It Come with Attachments?”
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proudly congratulates
Meredith Vieira
for her Matrix Award
to someone
whose accomplishments
are as big as her heart –
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“
The Matrix Award means
everything to me. This
is the one that endures
because you are being
acknowledged by your
peers, and they have
uniquely experienced what
you have experienced.
Winning the Matrix Award
was the culmination of
my career.
”
Valerie Salembier
for Magazines
past winners
Matrix Hall of Fame
2006
Jill Abramson
Candace Bushnell
Beth Comstock
Geena Davis
Ellen DeGeneres*
Joan Hamburg
Cynthia Leive
Renetta McCann
Katherine Oliver
1999
Katie Couric
Esther Dyson
Joyce Hergenhan
Dorothy Kalins
Debbie A. Krenek
Linda Srere
Meryl Streep
Nan Talese
1992
Sylvia Chase
Fredrica S. Friedman
Lou Rena Hammond
Callie Khourie
Elizabeth Valk Long
Aileen Mehle
Helayne Spivak
1985
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Laurel Cutler
Helen Gurley Brown
Eleanor Lambert
Flora Lewis
Mary Alice Williams
1978
Rena R. Bartos
Jane E. Brody
Patricia Carbine
Dr. Dorothy Gregg
Barbara Seaman
Barbara Walters
2005
Christiane Amanpour
Nina DiSesa
Linda Fairstein
Edie Falco
Amy Gross
Wenda Harris Millard
Charlotte Otto
Marjorie Scardino
1998
Pilar Crespi
Anthea Disney
Phyllis McGrady
Bette Midler
Sally Minard
Janet Robinson
Rochelle Udell
1991
Penny Hawkey
Karen Elliott House
Annie Leibovitz
Joan Lunden
Grace Mirabella
Lynn Nesbit
Terrie Williams
1984
Susan Brownmiller
Tamara K. Homer
Judy Lynn Prince
Enid Nemy
Patricia Ryan
Diane Sawyer
1977
Ann Berk
Beatrice Buckler
Gloria Emerson
Muriel Fox
Ada Louise Huxtable
Nadeen Peterson
2004
Alix M. Freedman
Ann Fudge
Susan Peterson Kennedy
Nell Merlino
Martha Nelson
Bernadette Peters
Debra Shriver
Paula Zahn
1997
Red Burns
Nora Ephron
Anne Sutherland Fuchs
Betty Hudson
Laura Landro
Esther R. Newberg
Rosie O’Donnell
Mary Lou Quinlan
1990
Tina Brown
Marian Burros
Phyllis E. Grann
Michelle H. Jordan
Louise McNamee
Lynn Sherr
1983
Maya Angelou
Kay Koplovitz
Patricia Martin
Mary McGrory
Jane Bryant Quinn
Charlotte Kelly Veal
1976
Gay Pauley
Sylvia Porter
Lynn Povich
Marlene Sanders
Jean Schoonover
June Thursh
2003
Christy A. Ferer*
Gretchen C. Morgenson
Sheila Nevins
Maurie Perl
Carolyn K. Reidy
Jane Rosenthal
Daisy Expósito-Ulla
Kate White
1996
Charlotte Beers
Whoopi Goldberg
Geraldine Laybourne
Liz Smith
Martha Stewart
Amy Tan
Patrice Tanaka
1989
Kim Armstrong
Gail Collins
Nancy Evans
Frances Friedman
Ellen Levine
Betty Rollin
1982
Karen W. Arenson
Cathleen P. Black
Caroline R. Jones
Joyce Carol Oates
Jeannette E. Paladino
Kay J.Wight
1975
Madeline Amgott
Aileen Corbett
Elizabeth Janeway
Charlotte Klein
Judy Klemesrud
Geraldine Rhoads
Shirley Polykoff
2002
Carole Black
Peggy Conlon
Eve Ensler
Madeline de Vries
Kati Marton
Helen Thomas
Meg Whitman
Anna Wintour
1995
Shelly Lazarus
Carolyn Lee
Patricia Matson
Toni Morrison
Cokie Roberts
Elizabeth Tilberis
1988
Myrna Blyth
Carolyn Carter
Marilyn Laurie
Anna Quindlen
Carolyn Wall
Genevieve Young
1981
Letitia Baldrige
Judith Daniels
Beth Fallon
Pegeen Fitzgerald
Jane Brown Maas
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
1974
Shana Alexander
Charlotte Curtis
Susanne Loeb
Joan Murray
Rita Sands
2001
Andrea Alstrup
Judy Corman
Jane Friedman
Joanne Lipman
Judy McGrath
Valerie Salembier
Lois Smith
Pamela Thomas-Graham
1994
Gail Blanke
Maureen Dowd
Sarah Frank
Mary Ellen Mark
Ann S. Moore
Naomi Wolf
Ruth A.Wooden
1987
Margaret Booth
Jane Pauley
Elaine S. Reiss
Beverly Stephen
Susan L.Taylor
Wendy Weil
1980
Franchellie Cadwell
Suzanne Garment
Frances FitzGerald
Barbara Hunter
Pamela Hill
Ruth Whitney
1973
Jo Foxworth
Sondra Gorney
Lucy Jarvis
Eileen Shanahan
Gail Sheehy
2000
Candice Carpenter
Ranny Cooper
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia D. Fili-Krushel
Katharine Graham
Judith Jamison
Ann Jackson
Linda Kaplan Thaler
1993
Jean L. Farinelli
Paula Forman
Jacqueline McCord Leo
Penny Marshall
Terry McMillan
Lesley Stahl
Alessandra Stanley
1986
Dorothea M. Brooks
Meredith Fernstrom
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Kate Rand Lloyd
Marcella Rosen
Alice Walker
1979
Betty Furness
Marcia Ann Gillespie
Joan Lipton
Elaine R. Pitts
Harriet Rabb
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Yuncker
1972
Mary Andrews Ayres
Marylin Bender
Pat Coffin
Melba Toliver
*Indicates Special Awards
1971
Gloria Steinem
Theo Wilson
New York Women in Communications
and the Matrix Awards would like to thank
our 2007 digital media partners.
The Lisa Birnbach Show
Monday-Friday, 9am-Noon ET
on radio nationwide and at
www.greenstonemedia.com
The media’s online source
for video
www.thenewsmarket.com
Official broadcast partner
of the 2007 Matrix Awards
www.nyc.gov.tv
The 2007 Matrix Awards can be seen on
NYC TV on May 3 and May 6 at 8pm on
Time Warner 25 / Cablevision 22.

Journal - New York Women in Communications, Inc.

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