Emerita. Jensen was also on the honorary advisory board for the Women's Media Center. She received the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Hunter College Presidential Grant for Innovative Uses of Technology in Teaching, the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and the Rosa Cisneros Award from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region. The Women Economic Forum named her the 2016 Iconic Thought Leader for the Decade in Media, and she had also been named one of the 100 most influential women in New York by the New York Daily News. She died of breast cancer in Manhattan, New York, on October 18, 2017, at the age of 70. She was survived by two daughters, two granddaughters and two grandsons. Funding Women's eNews receives funding from individual donors on their website, and from humanitarian foundations. Notable grants include one of $100,000 received in 2010 from the Ford Foundation earmarked for the production of a 12-part series on women's poverty in America: "Scenes from the Women's Economy". Beginning in July 2009, a 20-month grant totaling $400,000 came from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for the study of high mortality rates related to childbirth in African-American communities. Awards Women's eNews and its writers have received over 35 awards since the organization's launch in 2000, including "Best Internet Site" in 2005 from the National Federation of Press Women, and the "Exceptional Merit in Media Award" in 2010 from the National Women's Political Caucus. Jensen won many awards for her work at the helm of the news service including the National Association for Female Executives' Woman of Excellence award in 2010. She was also a past honoree as one of the most Exceptional Women in Publishing, an annual award first given to Gloria Steinem. References External links Women's eNews Arabic Women's eNews Feminist mass media American political websites Non-profit organizations based in New York City American women's websites American journalism organizations