2013 EWIP Womens Leadership Conference

Award Recipients

Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award

Each year Exceptional Women in Publishing (EWIP) selects an accomplished woman to receive the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award. We select someone for this honor who has achieved prominence in her career, has made extraordinary contributions to publishing, and has demonstrated success and leadership in nontraditional and/or exceptional ways. All recipients of the honor, beginning with Gloria Steinem in 1999, are listed below.

Deanna Brown

The EWIP board of directors are very pleased to announce
the fifteenth recipient of the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award.

Deanna Brown, CEO of Federated Media Publishing will be presented with the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award at the luncheon celebration during
EWIP’s fifteenth-annual Women’s Leadership Conference
The City Club of San Francisco
March 6, 2013
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Everyone is welcome.


Honorees of the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award

EWIP Award
2013 Deanna Brown, CEO Federated Media Publishing.

2012 Michela O’Connor Abrams, president Dwell Media, LLC.

2011 Laurel Touby, the founder and senior vice president of mediabistro.com.

2010 Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine.

2009 Dorothy Kalins, former executive editor of Newsweek, founding editor of Saveur, and is currently running the show at Dorothy Kalins, Ink.

2008 Alix Kennedy, former VP and editorial director of Family-Fun and Wondertime magazines, part of Disney Publishing Worldwide.

2007 Phyllis Hoffman, president and CEO, Hoffman Media, LLC

2006 Lynn Povich, journalist and former Editor-in-Chief, Working Woman

2005 Eleanor Clift, author and contributing editor, Newsweek

2004 Ardath Rodale and Marie Rodale. Ardie (1928-2009) served as Rodale’s CEO from 1990 to 2007; Marie is the current CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc

2003 Susan Taylor, founding editor, Essence

2002 Rita Henley Jensen, founding editor, Women’s ENews

2001 Linda Gardiner, founding editor, Women’s Review of Books

2000 Bonnie Krueger, founding publisher, Associated Press publications

1999 Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. magazine