Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the President Tuesday, October 14 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Session III Women and the 2008 Election: Playing Politics with Gender - Media, Candidates and the Majority Vote Rachel Sklar, Senior Contributing Editor, Huffington Post, editor, "Eat The Press" Carol Jenkins, President, The Women's Media Center Andrea Tantaros, Political and Media Commentator, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC Karen Tumulty, National Political Correspondent, TIME Ada Calhoun, Contributor, Parentdish.com, AOL Tatsha Robertson, Deputy Editor, Essence Lisa Witter, Chief Operating Officer, FENTON | communications, Moderator Rachel Sklar is a Senior Contributing Editor for the Huffington Post and is the editor of the site's Eat The Press page. She has contributed to the New York Times, the New York Post, the Village Voice, Glamour, New York Magazine, the Financial Times, and numerous publications in her northern homeland of Canada. She is a frequent guest on networks including CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, with varying degrees of makeup. She is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, Canada: 1998) and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. Rachel was recently named to Heeb magazine's "Heeb 100," Chatelaine magazine's "Canadian Women to Watch" and the Globe & Mail's "Ten Famous Canadians You've Never Heard Of," which she thinks was a compliment. She was formerly a corporate lawyer in New York and Stockholm, where she never learned to like herring. Carol Jenkins, President, The Women's Media Center: Carol Jenkins is President of the Women's Media Center and a Founding Member of its Board of Directors. An Emmy award-winning former news anchor and correspondent who covered presidential politics as well as international issues, Ms. Jenkins leads the Women’s Media Center’s online publication and its advocacy initiatives. She is a national spokeswoman for women and the media, arguing the case for inclusion of women throughout the media: in ownership positions, at the highest levels of management and creativity, as well as the telling of women's stories in television and film, radio, print, and online. As president of the Women’s Media Center, Ms. Jenkins has testified before Congress and the FCC, and written about what she calls The Invisible Majority—the 51 percent of the population (women) who occupy only 3 percent of "clout" positions in media. As a media and political analyst, she has appeared as a guest and in debates at top national outlets. Her commentary, written for www.womensmediacenter.com, has appeared in The Nation.com, The Huffington Post, Television Week, and other print and online sources. A frequently sought speaker and moderator, she also conducts media training seminars and private sessions for women across the country. Ms. Jenkins enjoyed a 30-year, award-winning tenure with several New York City news departments, including 23 years at WNBC-TV, where she co-anchored the pivotal 6 p.m. newscast. She was most identified with her reporting of national political stories, including from the floor of Democratic and Republican national conventions that yielded Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. From South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela after 27 years in prison, and anchored and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime time special on apartheid. She hosted her own daily talk show, Carol Jenkins Live, on WNYW-TV. Carol Jenkins is the author, with her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, of Black Titan, A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. The life story of Ms Jenkins' uncle, it was selected by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as one of the best non-fiction books of 2004. She is an executive producer of the PBS documentary, What I Want My Words To Do To You, which won the Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Among Ms. Jenkins' interests is promoting the cause of the women and children of war ravaged Africa. She serves on the USA board of AMREF, the African Medical and Research Foundation. Founded 50 years ago as The Flying Doctors, AMREF is the largest African health organization working on the continent. Ms Jenkins has visited AMREF projects in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and has written about the former girl soldiers of Uganda. Ms. Jenkins, a second-generation journalist, is working on her next family memoir, a historical look at women and people of color in the media. She has written articles for More, Ms, and Opportunity Journal and her essay, “Standing By: Women in Broadcast Journalism” appeared in Sisterhood is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium. She has served on the boards of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Feminist Press, among others. Carol Jenkins has been honored by the Association of Black Journalists/New York Chapter with Lifetime Achievement and International Reporting Awards, UPI, The Feminist Press, The Daily News’ Front Page Award, YWCA, Girl Scouts of America, Save the Children, Single Parents' Association, United Negro College Fund, Hale House, National Mothers Day Committee as Mother of the Year, the Police Athletic League as Woman of the Year, Abbot House as Humanitarian of the Year, and as Distinguished Alumna of New York University, among many others. She holds honorary doctorates from The College of New Rochelle and Marymount Manhattan College. Karen Tumulty, National Political Correspondent, TIME: Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for TIME, has written or co-written nearly three dozen cover stories for the magazine. That extensive list including the now-iconic “How the Right Went Wrong,” a look at how political conservatives lost their footing, which featured a crying Ronald Reagan as its cover image (March 2007). Tumulty, who was named national political correspondent in 2001, has also written profiles of presidential contenders Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, as well as dozens of stories about the 2008 presidential campaign. She contributes regularly to TIME.com’s political blog, “Swampland,” and has also held positions with TIME as congressional correspondent and White House correspondent. Before joining TIME in 1994, Tumulty spent 14 years at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered a wide variety of beats. During her time there, she reported on Congress, business, energy and economics out of Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. In 1982, Tumulty was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, and, in 1993, she won the National Press Foundation Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence. Tumulty is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she began her career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light. Tumulty holds a B.S. from the University of Texas-Austin and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is married to Paul Richter, who covers the State Department for the Los Angeles Times. They have two sons, Nicholas and Jack. Andrea Tantaros, Political and Media Commentator, Fox News Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC: Andrea Tantaros is a regular political and media commentator on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. She is widely known as a communications professional with hard-won experience ranging from high profile political campaigns to media consulting and crisis communications in the private sector. Before starting her own business, Andrea Tantaros Media, she served in senior communications roles on a number of high-profile political campaigns including Communications Director for former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld where she led the media operation against Weld opponent, former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, as well as for former Westchester, NY District Attorney Jeanine Pirro against New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Tantaros is also credited with helping former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas Reynolds secure a narrow re-election victory during the scandal-plagued 2006 election cycle. She currently advises Fortune 500 corporations and political campaigns facing reputational challenges on crisis management and media strategy, and specializes in healthcare, technology and public affairs issues. Tantaros previously worked on Capitol Hill where she served as Press Secretary to Republican Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives. During her time with House Leadership, Tantaros was responsible for helping craft and execute the media strategy for the Republican majority. Tantaros also worked at CNN's Crossfire, for former Reagan pollster Richard Wirthlin, and as Deputy Press Secretary to former Congressman Patrick Toomey. A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, she is a graduate of Lehigh University and The Universite de Paris in Paris, France. She is proficient in Spanish, French and Greek and lives in New York City Ada Calhoun, editor-in-chief, Babble.com: Ada Calhoun is Babble's founding editor-in-chief and a blogger for AOL. She has worked at New York magazine, Nerve.com and Vogue, and written for The New York Times, Salon.com, TIME and the anthology One of the Guys. She is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Tatsha Robertson, Deputy Editor, Essence: Tatsha Robertson is an award-winning journalist, and currently a Deputy Editor for Essence Magazine. A former national writer and New York City Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, she joined Essence in 2006, where she has interviewed the likes of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Senator John McCain, edited Pulitzer-Prize winning writers, and shepherded a number of investigative pieces as well as the magazine’s political coverage, including profiles on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, John Edwards and John McCain. Her story on Missing Black Children won the Time Inc’s coveted Luce Award. Lisa Witter is the Chief Operating Officer of Fenton Communications, the largest public interest communications firm in the country. She heads the firm’s practice in women’s issues and global affairs for clients including the Women for Women International, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai, MoveOn.org, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, American Medical Association, American Lung Association and many others. She is a co-founder of award-winning SheSource.org, an online brain trust of women experts to help close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. She was honored as an outstanding activist and expert on women’s issues by Oxygen.com for her work on a national campaign against privatizing Social Security during the 2000 presidential election. Lisa is a blogger and political commentator appearing as an expert on NPR, MSNBC, FOX News, CBS Early Show and has been published in Newsday, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Anderson Cooper 360, Huffington Post, AlterNet and Blogher. In 2004, she was a contestant on the Showtime reality show, “American Candidate.” Witter is co-author of “The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World and How to Reach Them.”