Prominent Women in MediaMedia is all over the place. Media can mean newspaper, social media, or even television. This

presentation shows some well-known and some not so well-known women in media who are rocking it!

Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch, an online website in technology media property, startups, internet product reviews, and breaking tech news.

Alexia Tsotsis graduated from UCLA with a degree in Writing and Art. Afterwards, she moved to New York City to work in the media industry

She moved back to Los Angeles and worked as LA Weekly’s Internet culture reporter and then SF Weekly’s web editor.

At TechCrunch, Tsotsis covers news on the early state of startups.

Christiane Amanpour

Christiane Amanpour is a global affairs anchor for ABC News. She provides international analysis of important issues, and anchors primetime documentaries on international subjects.

Her first job in media was at CNN in 1990, where she had her first major assignment of covering the Gulf War. Since then, she covered reports in Iraq, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and more.

Christiane Amanpour graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a B.A. in journalism.

Jenny Farrelly

Jenny Farrelly is the Vice President of Global Communications at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. She provides press releases for the private equity company and more.

Prior to joining KKR, Farrelly was a senior member of Edelman’s Corporate & Financial Communications practice. Here she led many alternative asset management accounts.

Jenny Farrelly is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute. She received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in International Relations and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth with a focus in finance and corporate communication.

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group. Along with that she is a nationally syndicated columnist and an author of 13 books.

Arianna founded the Huffington Most in 2005 as a news and blog site. It has won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

Arianna Huffington started off her career in media writing a book and several articles for National Review. She has an Masters of Arts from Girton College.