Jessica Bennett (journalist)

Jessica Bennett
Born Seattle, Washington
Residence New York City
Education Boston University
Occupation Journalist
Employer Newsweek
TIME
Tumblr
Awards New York Press Club Award (multiple)
Newswomen's Club of New York (multiple)
GLAAD Media Award
James Beard
ASME (nominated)
Website Jessica Bennett

Jessica Bennett (born 1981) is a journalist who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times and a former columnist at Time. She is the author of Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace.

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 after college to become a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett.

Career

Bennett began her career at Newsweek, where she spent seven years as a staff writer and editor. She wrote a controversial cover story about the magazine's long history of sexism, framed around the story of 46 female staffers who sued the company for gender discrimination in the 1970s, paving the way for female journalists.[1] That story is the subject of a book, The Good Girls Revolt, by Lynn Povich[2] and a new Amazon television series by the same name.[3] Bennett left Newsweek to become the executive editor of Tumblr[4] and later a contributing editor to Sheryl Sandberg's women's nonprofit, LeanIn.org,[5] where she co-founded and curates the Lean In Collection with Getty Images, a photo initiative to change the depiction of women in stock photography.[6]

Bennett has written on millennials and marriage, feminism, stay-at-home dads,[7] gay rights, pot policy, school bullying and writes a monthly column for the New York Times style section called Command Z, which takes on communication in the modern age.[8] She has profiled Monica Lewinsky,[9] Paula Broadwell[10] and wrote a piece on resting bitch face.[11]

She also covered the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal,[12][13] the bully suicide of Phoebe Prince,[14][15][16][17] and won a NY Press Club award for the story on the Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy, a young woman killed in a car accident whose death photos went viral after being leaked by the Highway Patrol.[18][19]

Bennett's first book, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, was published by HarperCollins in September 2016.[20]

Awards and honors

Bennett has received the Newswomen's Club of New York's 2011 Front Page Award in the category of "Online—Multimedia" for her work on "The Beauty Advantage" in Newsweek;[21] a 2009 GLAAD Media Award in the category of "Outstanding Digital Journalism—Multimedia for "Is Gay the New Black?" in Newsweek;[22] and a 2011 New York Press Club Journalism Award in the category of "Outstanding Web Coverage" for "Welcome to Potopia" in Newsweek.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison. "Young Women, Newsweek, and Sexism". Newsweek. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  2. ↑ Liesl Schillinger. "Throwing Stones at Glass Ceilings". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  3. ↑ Watch Good Girls Revolt Season 1 Episode - Amazon Video, retrieved 2016-09-26
  4. ↑ Brian Stelter. "Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  5. ↑ Suzanna Bobadilla. "Meet Jessica Bennett, Feminist Powerhouse and Editor of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In". Mic. Retrieved 2015-01-15.
  6. ↑ "Q&A: The Curator of Lean In's Feminist Stock Photos". 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  7. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (14 November 2014). "The Brotherhood of the Stay-at-Home Dad". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2015-11-28). "OMG! The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (1 August 2015). "I'm Not Mad. That's Just My RBF.". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Bennett, Jessica; Bernstein, Jacob (13 Dec 2011). "Can Anybody Defend Jerry Sandusky?". The Daily Beast.
  13. ↑ Bennett, Jessica; Bernstein, Jacob (13 Dec 2011). "Jerry Sandusky Surprises by Waiving Right to Preliminary Hearing".
  14. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (1 October 2010). "Is the 'Bullying Epidemic' a Media Myth?". Newsweek.
  15. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (4 Oct 2010). "Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?". Newsweek.
  16. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (4 October 2010). "Phoebe Prince Bullying Case: Anatomy of a Tragedy". Newsweek.
  17. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (6 May 2011). "Phoebe Prince: Have Her Bullies Suffered Enough?". Newsweek.
  18. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (24 April 2009). "One Family's Fight Against Grisly Web Photos". Newsweek.
  19. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2 April 2010). "For Family of Nikki Catsouras, a Victory in Court". Newsweek.
  20. ↑ Bennett, Jessica (2016-09-13). Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave.
  21. ↑ Alex Alvarez (November 5, 2010). "The 2011 Front Page Awards". FishBowlNY, AdWeek.
  22. ↑ "Pictures and Winners From the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in NYC" (Press release). GLAAD. March 30, 2009.
  23. ↑ "The New York Press Club Journalism Awards: 2011 Winners". New York Press Club.
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