Women's International News Gathering Service records, 1955-1993.

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Women's International News Gathering Service records, 1955-1993.

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Correspondence, printed materials, newsletters, newspapers, notes, financial records, reports, computer-generated materials, diaries, literary productions, photographs and audiotapes document the development and work of the Women's International News Gathering Service and the journalism careers and personal lives of its co-founders, Katherine Davenport and Frieda Werden.

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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 Ser...

Werden, Frieda

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American and Canadian radio personality Frieda Lindfield Werden was born Linda Catherine Samfield in Austin, Texas, in 1947, and married Noble Horace Dunson, Jr., in 1968. After divorcing Dunson in 1972, she changed her name to Frieda Lindfield Werden. In 1986, she co-founded and produced the radio production company Wings: Women's International News Gathering Service. She immigrated to Canada in 2002 and three years later, Werden was elected president of the Internation...

Women's International News Gathering Service

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A feminist-oriented broadcast news service founded in 1986 by Katherine Davenport and Frieda Werden, both experienced radio journalists, who produced and co-anchored the monthly syndicated public radio newscast, WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service. Following Davenport's death in 1992, Werden continued to produce the program by and about women, broadcast by approximately 100 stations in the United States and throughout the world. From the descr...