The Matrix Awards: Media Revolutionaries

At a high-heeled and smart-suited luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria today, women (and some men who know what’s good for them) gathered to honor each other at The Matrix Awards. New York Women in Communications Inc. (NYWICI) honored eight ladies of reknown: actor Geena Davis, author Candace Bushnell, NBCU Digital Media’s Beth Comstock, WOR Radio veteran Joan Hamburg, NYC Film Commissioner Katherine Oliver, Glamour EIC Cynthia Leive, New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson, and Starcom Mediavest CEO Renetta McCann.

Talkshow host/dance crazer Ellen DeGeneres hosted the event and generated a lot of enthusiasm, judging by the four women we overheard on the subway looking forward to both the luncheon AND recording Ellen every day.

Asian chicken salad fed the masses at the Matrix Awards, giving the first quarter of the event a clinking soundtrack.

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