MYRNA BLYTH is the  New York Times bestselling author of  Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness--and Liberalism--to the Women of America.   "It was a book that really made people think about how  much media bias was aimed at women.  And what was the effect of such bias."  For more than twenty years, Myrna Blyth was Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of Ladies’ Home Journal.  She was also founding Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of More Magazine, the only magazine aimed specifically at women over forty.  She is now a columnist for National Review Online and writes for many leading publications.   She also lectures and makes frequent television and radio appearances
    
In March 2001, Ms. Blyth was named Advertising Age magazine’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” and was included in Columbia Journalism Review’s “The Shapers,” a list of 200 New Yorkers who help shape the national media agenda.     In March 2000, Women’s History Month, Ms. Blyth received the “Women of Achievement” award from the New York City Commission on the Status of Women.  In 1999, she received the Magazine Publishers of America’s Henry Johnson Fisher Award, the industry’s highest honor.  She has also won the Matrix Award from New York’s Women in Communications, Inc.

Ms. Blyth was an official American delegate for the UN Fourth World Conference on  Women  in Beijing.  "Being the granddaughter of immigrants, it was one of the proudest moments of my life to be able to be an official representative of our country at a World Conference."   She is now currently Chairman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows.  She is also on the Department of Justice’s National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women.   

She is married, has two sons and lives in New York City.

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