The Riveter Devotes Itself to Longform Journalism By Women
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Rosie the Riveter’s legacy lives on, and this time, her likeness is being used not to sell cleaning products, but to support women’s longform journalism, through a new magazine called The Riveter, founded by recent Missouri School of Journalism graduates Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz.
The Riveter (“Riveting Storytelling by Women”) has plans to live online with shorter and more timely content, but its real bread and butter is the print edition; the first issue is out this week and has four lengthy articles. In an interview with Poynter, Ralph and Demikiewicz made it clear that they’re hoping to add their voices and the voices of others to a growing media world that’s focused on curating longform women’s journalism because they think their simply isn’t enough of it. They cited the VIDA report as an inspiration, which seems to be happening a lot lately: