Jessica Bennett (journalist)

Jessica Bennett
Residence New York City
Education Boston University
Occupation Journalist
Awards New York Press Club (multiple)
Newswomen's Club of New York (multiple)
GLAAD Media Award
International Center for Photography
Website Jessica Bennett

Jessica Bennett is an American journalist who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer and columnist for The New York Times[1] and a former columnist at Time[2]. She is the author of Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace (HarperCollins, 2016).[3]

Personal background

Bennett grew up in Seattle, Washington, where she attended Garfield High School. She received a B.S. 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 at the Village Voice[4].

Career

Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she spent seven years as a staff writer and editor, 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.[5][6] In 2010, she and two colleagues wrote a controversial cover story entitled "Are We There Yet?"[7] about Newsweek's long history of sexism. It appeared on the 40th anniversary of a landmark lawsuit against Newsweek[8], in which 46 female staffers sued the company for gender discrimination. That story became a book, The Good Girls Revolt, by Lynn Povich[9] and an Amazon television series of the same name.[10]

Bennett left Newsweek to become the executive editor of Tumblr[11] and later a contributing editor to Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit Lean In,[12] where she cofounded the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography.[13]

For The New York Times, Bennett has written on feminist sororities [14], sexual consent[15], female marijuana entrepreneurs [16] and spent time with Hillary Clinton's childhood best friends[17]. She also writes a column on digital language called Command Z[18]. She has profiled Monica Lewinsky,[19] Paula Broadwell,[20] Whitney Wolfe of Bumble[21] and wrote a viral piece about her Resting Bitch Face.[22]

In 2016, Bennett published a book, Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace,[23] 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].

Awards and honors

Bennett has been honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York's [24], GLAAD Media Award [25] , the New York Press Club [26] and the International Center of Photography for her work on the Lean In Collection[27].

References

  1. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-11-10). "Girls Can Be Anything, Just Not President". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  2. ↑ "How to Stop a 'Manterrupter' Like Donald Trump". Time. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  3. 1 2 3 Bennett, Jessica. "Feminist Fight Club - Jessica Bennett - Hardcover". HarperCollins US. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  4. ↑ Pérez-peña, Richard (2011-02-25). "For Wayne Barrett, the Digging for Dirt Hasn’t Stopped". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  5. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (24 April 2009). "One Family's Fight Against Grisly Web Photos". Newsweek.
  6. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2 April 2010). "For Family of Nikki Catsouras, a Victory in Court". Newsweek.
  7. ↑ "Young Women, Newsweek, and Sexism". Newsweek. 2010-03-18. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  8. ↑ News, A. B. C. (2010-03-24). "40 Years of Sexism at Newsweek?". ABC News. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  9. ↑ Liesl Schillinger. "Throwing Stones at Glass Ceilings". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  10. ↑ Watch Good Girls Revolt Season 1 Episode - Amazon Video, retrieved 2016-09-26
  11. ↑ Brian Stelter. "Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  12. ↑ Suzanna Bobadilla. "Meet Jessica Bennett, Feminist Powerhouse and Editor of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In". Mic. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  13. ↑ "Q&A: The Curator of Lean In’s Feminist Stock Photos". 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  14. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-04-09). "When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  15. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-01-09). "Campus Sex … With a Syllabus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  16. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2014-10-03). "In Colorado, a Rebranding of Pot Inc.". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  17. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-10-21). "Debate-Watching With Hillary Clinton’s BFFs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  18. ↑ "Command Z". Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  19. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2015-03-19). "Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It’s on Her Terms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  20. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-05-28). "Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the Afterlife of a Scandal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  21. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2017-03-18). "With Her Dating App, Women Are in Control". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  22. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (1 August 2015). "I’m Not Mad. That’s Just My RBF.". The New York Times.
  23. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-09-13). Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave.
  24. ↑ Alex Alvarez (November 5, 2010). "The 2011 Front Page Awards". FishBowlNY, AdWeek.
  25. ↑ "Pictures and Winners From the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC" (Press release). GLAAD. March 30, 2009.
  26. ↑ "The New York Press Club Journalism Awards: 2011 Winners". New York Press Club.
  27. ↑ "2015 Infinity Award: Trustee". International Center of Photography. 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
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