Action Alert | 2018 New York Media Festival Fails Miserably

As our counter extraordinaire went through 2018 NYME’s speaker lineup, all she thought was, “wow, this is one of the worst lineups we’ve seen in a long time.” May we present 2018 NYME:

No matter how you look at it, from the keynoters to the breakout session speakers, there are just not enough women. Event producer Digital Media Wire has a little over a month to make this right, and, as Slack can tell you, we’ll be watching.

#NYME2018 has one of the least gender-diverse speaker lineups we’ve seen in a long time: only 22 of the 120 speakers are women, and only 6 of those are women of color. Time to fix it, @dmwnews. #genderavenger https://www.genderavenger.com/blog/action-alert-2018-nyme-fails