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Women's eNews is a nonprofit online based news service based in New York. It covers international news specializing in coverage of women's lives.

History
Women's eNews grew out of a 1996 roundtable discussion conceived and funded by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, now Legal Momentum.

After additional research on the need for a media outlet to distribute news of concern to women and the opportunity to provide women's voices to commercial media, NOW Legal Defense underwrote in 1999 the creation of Women's eNews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. NOW Legal Defense fund put journalist Rita Henley Jensen in the position of editor in chief. Two years later, NOW Legal Defense determined Women's eNews could sustain its success and stand on its own.

Women's eNews joined the Fund for the City for New York'sIncubator/Partner Project Program in 2002.

Women's eNews launched it's Arabic language site, Arabic Women's eNews, in 2002 in response to the theme of women's empowerment in the United Nation's Development Program First Arab Human Development Report.

In 2008 Women's eNews left the Incubator/Partner Project Program and became an independent organization. Rita Henley Jensen remains editor-in chief of Women's eNews.

Founder
Rita Henley Jensen is a former senior writer for the National Law Journal and columnist for The New York Times Syndicate. She has more than 30 years of experience in journalism and has received many awards for her journalistic practice including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Hunter College Presidential Grant for Innovative Uses of Technology in Teaching, the , and the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize. Jensen is also a survivor of domestic violence and a former welfare mother who earned degrees from Ohio State University and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

She is on the honorary advisory board for the Women's Media Center an organization which works to increase women's representation and gender diversity in the media.

Funding
Women's eNews receives funding from donors on their website and foundations including $100,000 in 2010 from the Ford Foundation and $400,000 over two years from the Kellogg Foundation

Awards
Women's eNews and it's writers have received over 35 awards since the organizations launch in 2000.

Rita Henley Jensen has won many awards for her work at the helm of the news service including the National Association of Female Executives Women of Excellence award in 2010 She has also been honored as an Exceptional Woman in Publishing alongside Gloria Steinem, the founding editor of Essence Magazine and the editor and publisher of the Nation.