Rachel Sklar
Summary
Rachel Sklar (born December 8, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a lawyer and New York-based media blogger. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students' Council, as well as a regular contributor to the campus newspaper, The Gazette. She was also an active member of the University of Western Ontario Debating Society. She graduated with honors from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she was valedictorian. She was a corporate lawyer in Stockholm and New York, before switching careers to journalism.Sklar became a full-time freelance writer on a wide array of topics.
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Knight Foundation funds new projects for fact-checking and transparency
The Knight Foundation added to its investment in media on Monday, supporting five new innovation projects from startups and established media companies. The funding from Knight will go toward fact-checking and transparency work, as well as to efforts to increase support for and visibility of women in the tech sector.
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Forbes.com contributor deletes post about Sheryl Sandberg after people call it sexist
On Wednesday, Forbes. com contributor Eric Jackson wrote a controversial post comparing the media attention that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets to that of former Marimba CEO Kim Polese 15 years ago. By Thursday morning, Jackson had deleted the post and… Read more.
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Mediatwits #44: Social Media's Role in Activism, Trayvon Martin; Pinterest's Legal Drama
Welcome to the 44th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the Rachel Sklar as co-hosts. Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur, and is filling in for Rafat Ali. This week, we convene a special roundtable to discuss how social media is changing activism, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, in a backlash to Rush Limbaugh, and in many other cases.
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Mediatwits #44: Social Media's Role in Activism, Trayvon Martin; Pinterest's Legal Drama
Welcome to the 44th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the Rachel Sklar as co-hosts. Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur, and is filling in for Rafat Ali. This week, we convene a special roundtable to discuss how social media is changing activism, in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, in a backlash to Rush Limbaugh, and in many other cases.
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Mediatwits #43: Pew's State of the News Media; Yahoo Sues Facebook
Welcome to the 43rd episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the Rachel Sklar as co-hosts. Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur, and is filling in for Rafat Ali. She is back from SXSW and slowly recovering from the interactive, music and film festival. The big news this week is Pew's annual State of the News Media report, which painstakingly explains how people are consuming news (more and more on mobile) and where the digital ad revenues are going (mainly to tech companies and not traditional media companies).
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Mediatwits #42: SXSW Special: Homeless Hotspots; Ambient Apps, CNN/Mashable?
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Special Series: SXSW 2012
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Rachel Sklar: The XX Voting Bloc
It's barely two months old, but 2012 has already been incredibly interesting -- and specifically, interesting for women. From an instant bestseller focusing on the Obama presidency as a partnership with the first lady to the massive Komen backlash to the sudden and furious contraception debate, the power and influence and voice of women have suddenly been impossible to ignore.
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The two Whitney Houstons met in media
Mother Jones When Whitney Houston got a reality show, two media narratives about her collided, writes Rachel Sklar. The first was the Whitney carefully groomed as the next Aretha by Arista honcho Clive Davis, the gal-next-door in a gown… Read more.
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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For January 6, 2012
The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from a small state to have an outsized influence on electoral outcomes (concerns which are somewhat overstated, but not completely dismissable!) is the simple fact that it is a really pretty thing to look at.
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