The Meteor CEO and former Glamour and Self editor-in-chief Cindi Leive joins host Sabrina Cartan in the Shire to geek out about women journalists through the lens Brenda Starr, Reporter, an iconic comic strip that ran from 1940 to 2011.
A cultural critic and one of the most celebrated women in American media, Cindi shares teen memories of being a Bruce Springsteen and Eurythmics fangirl in the early 1980s, and how her love of the fashionable, no-nonsense Brenda Starr influenced her career. Together, Cindi and Sabrina explore gender in the workplace, women's authorship, and what's changed (or hasn't) since Brenda Starr's heyday.
Cindi connects all of this to her current work at The Meteor, a media company she co-founded with a group of journalists, artists, filmmakers, and media leaders who believe in the power of words, images, and stories to advance gender and racial justice and equity—and transform the world.
During Leive’s 16 years at Glamour, she grew the brand’s audience to a record 20 million across print and digital, and built barrier-breaking initiatives like Women of the Year (the country’s preeminent event showcasing women), #PoweredByWomen (a global movement supporting female photographers), #The51Million (about women and politics) and more. As a journalist, she has interviewed Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and George W. Bush, First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, and personalities ranging from Jennifer Lawrence to Angelina Jolie. She also founded The Girl Project to support girls’ education, making Glamour the first women’s media brand with a nonprofit initiative.
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