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An independent news agency, Women's eNews and Editor in Chief Rita Henley Jensen have won 3127 awards in its nine plus six years of operations. Some examples: Jensen is a recipient of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni award; the site's resident cartoonist Ann Telnaes won the National Press Foundation's 2004 Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons and the Pulitzer prize; Los Angeles Press Club Award, for Beat a Woman? Play On; Beat a Dog? You're Gone, by Sandra Kobrin, (2008); Front Page Award - Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for Bigger, Uglier, Story of Addicted Women Goes Untold and HIV-AIDS and Black Women? Time for Fireworks by Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich (2008); New Media Category Award- South Asian Journalists Association for Algerian Amnesty Heightens Danger to Women by Leela Jacinto, (2007)
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