Davenport, Katherine, 1941-1992

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A feminist-oriented broadcast news service founded by radio journalists Katherine Davenport and Frieda Werden in 1986, Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) is an all-woman independent radio production company based out of Vancouver, Canada. WINGS produces and distributes radio news programs that can be heard on approximately 100 radio stations throughout the world, on audiocassettes and the internet.

Source: WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service. “About WINGS.” Accessed on May 12, 2011. http://www.wings.org/about.html.

From the guide to the Women's International News Gathering Service (WINGS) Archive and Audio Tape Collection 93-079; 94-099; 95-075; 95-164; 96-140; 97-065; 97-077; 2009-271., 1954, 1978-1999, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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Feminism
Lesbianism
Public radio
Radio broadcasting
Women
Women
Women in mass media
Women journalists
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Birth 1941

Death 1992

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