Media Program:

2013-2014Year in Review

COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES YEAR IN REVIEW 2013-2014

152 media hits

111 CCF mentions, hundreds of wire repeats

39 CCFers involved

11 CCF briefs--including symposia

4 Online symposia, with 26 contributions

19 Bi-lined columns and op-eds

Top outlets for CCF: The New York Times, CNN, The Huffington Post, LA Times, Slate, NPR

DAY 1: Religion and Relationships DAY 2: Racial-Ethnic Realities DAY 3: Women’s Changing Social Status

CIVIL RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM

CCF Civil Rights Symposium Newswise, Orlando Sentinel, Slate, All Alabama, Science Daily, The Vancouver Sun, The Baptist Standard, Christianity Today, Associated

Baptist Press News

DAY 1: Religion and Relationships -Fifty Years of Religious Change: 1964-2014

-Interfaith Marriage & Romantic Unions in the U.S.

CCF Civil Rights Symposium Black Voice News; one piece also in FATRA

DAY 2: Race and Ethnic Minorities -Changes in America’s Racial and Ethnic Composition Since 1964 -Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act? -Changes in Interracial Marriage -The State of Latino Children

CCF Civil Rights Symposium The Chicago Tribune, Arcamax

DAY 3: Women’s Changing Social Status since the Civil Rights Act -Civil Rights for Women, 1964-2014 -Dilemmas Facing High-Achieving Career Women

STORY: Cohabitation No Longer Predicts Divorce – And Possibly Never Did: New Research by Senior CCF Scholar Arielle Kuperberg

IMPACT: Covered by more than 20 media sources including The Today Show, The Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, Slate, and Time.

Features Arielle Kuperberg & cohabitation briefing report 2,600 Facebook Likes 1,614 Tweets

MEDIA REFERRALS: CCFers Barbara Risman, Philip Cohen, & Paula England are sources

REPORT: In School, Good Looks Help and Good Looks Hurt (But They Mostly Help) by Rachel Gordon and Robert Crosnoe IMPACT: Covered by The Today Show, CNN,

Albuquerque Business First, Time, and Dailymail, and many others.

CNN & Pepper Schwartz

-covers CCF briefing report -990 comments -6,400 Facebook Likes

3,910 comments 3,300 Facebook Likes

New York Times (print edition) covers CCF’s Equal Pay Symposium Equal Pay Symposium

*Released 4/23 *Josh Coleman & Stephanie Coontz, Editors *27 briefs *so far, interview with NPR, Atlantic

Norton Anthology: Families as They Really Are 1st Edition editor: Barbara Risman 2nd Edition forthcoming!

NEW THIS YEAR: CCF @ The Society Pages

CCF Media Award

Lois Collins Deseret News Salt Lake City Living Lonely “highlighted social ties that expand the conventional definition of ‘family’”