Gloria Steinem founded Ms. Magazine.
Said by Rep. Brad Schneider, Checked Updated
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PivotSep 4, 2026
Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (BBC, NPR, CNN, CNBC, Ms. Magazine, Feminist Majority Foundation) state Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, with NPR and CNN describing her as a founder. The claim's 'founded' is a faithful paraphrase of the post's 'which she founded', and sources differ only on the word 'co-founded', which is a defensible reading of 'founded'.
What was said
… Um I almost want to hand the floor over to the team. Um, the i never got to meet Gloria. Um, I did get to meet Dolly, uh, which was one of the most extraordinary experiences I've ever had. Um, but when I think about Gloria, two things. One, I was just reading the Miss. Magazine 50th anniversary, which she founded, um, introduction that she wrote, and I guess I didn't realize how much of what that magazine did was informed by the readers and the letters that were written into Gloria, and how much, um, almost in an open source way, 50 years ago, she let the second wave …
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Supports. BBC reports that in 1972 Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms Magazine, and that she helped convince New York Magazine's editor to fund its launch as an insert in December 1971.[1][2]
Supports. NPR states Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, and CNN describes her as 'founder of Ms. Magazine' in its obituary headline.[3][4]
Supports. The Feminist Majority Foundation statement says Ms. Magazine was co-founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem, and the Ms. Magazine obituary names her as cofounder.[5][6]
Context. Sources consistently describe Steinem as a co-founder alongside Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and other founding editors, so 'founded' is accurate but shared rather than solo.[4][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 2 tier 1, 2 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1Gloria Steinem on her trailblazing 1972 magazine 'for women in all ...bbc.co.uk · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 2Gloria Steinem on her trailblazing 1972 magazine 'for ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports
- 3Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, has diednpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 5Rest in Power: Gloria Steinem, Ms. Cofounder and Feminist ...msmagazine.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Statement of the Feminist Majority Foundation on the Death ...feminist.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Gloria Steinem co-founder of Ms. Magazine dies at 92cnbc.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 8How Gloria Steinem and her colleagues set out to 'change ...cbc.ca · not rated · cited for: context
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