Oprah Winfrey, Lesley Stahl, Sheryl Crow: Scenes From Women Who Change the World

• The ballroom at the Waldorf.

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• Presenter and media maven Oprah Winfrey with honoree Gayle King, editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine

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• Honoree Sheryl Crow, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, with presenter Mariska Hargitay of "Law & Order: SVU"

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• Honoree Tina Fey, executive producer, writer and star of NBC's Emmy Award-winning "30 Rock," with presenter Seth Meyers of "Saturday Night Live."

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• Honoree Ina Garten, "The Barefoot Contessa," with presenter Anna Quindlen, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

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• Honoree Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, with presenter Lesley Stahl, wowOwow's best friend, founder, "60 Minutes" anchor and CBS News correspondent

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• Presenter Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of "CBS Evening News," with honoree Anne Keating, senior vice president of public relations at Bloomingdale's.

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• Presenter Maria Bartiromo of CNBC's "The Closing Bell" with honoree Marissa Mayer, vice president, search products and user experience at Google

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• Honoree Susan Chira, foreign editor at The New York Times

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• Emcee Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News"

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Manhattan’s legendary Waldorf-Astoria was a picture-perfect scene on Monday. Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Sheryl Crow and more of our favorite women came together to celebrate and honor “Women Who Change the World” — remarkable females in the fields of communications and the arts. Flip through this slide show for photographs from the 40th annual New York Women in Communications Inc. Matrix Awards luncheon.

wowOwow friend and reporter Sharon Hoge was at the scene. Click here to read her special report.