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October 19, 2017

Women's eNews Founder Rita Henley Jensen Dies
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And award-winning journalist Rita Henley Jensen has died at the age of
70. Jensen was a domestic violence survivor who in 2000 founded Women's
e News, then the only independent daily news service focusing on women.
She also founded the Jane Crow Project, an investigative news outlet
focused on how racial and gender bias affects women's health and
reproductive rights. She died Wednesday morning after a long battle with
cancer.


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