The Gender Report provides a weekly round-up of links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links below are to noteworthy articles on topics related to women in journalism and the media during the past week. Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. View past week’s round-ups here.
Reading List
–Safety of women journalists on the frontline highlighted in new book (The Guardian) – For more related links, see our post on “No Woman’s Land”
–Twenty inspirational women journalists: A list of inspiring female journalists to mark International Women’s Day (Journalism.co.uk)
–International Women’s Day: Remembering the Murdered Women Writers of Mexico (Huffington Post UK)
–How Journalists Can Celebrate Women’s Day (10,000 Words)
–UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2012 (Press release)
–The Daily Beast’s ‘150 Fearless Women’ List Features Media Figures (Huffington Post Media)
–$56,000 Awarded to Four Women-Led News Projects (McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs)
–Naked ambition: Bild drops Page One Girl in bid for women readers (The Guardian)
–Nielsen: Women make up the majority of bloggers (ZDNet)
–Women underrepresented in tech jobs (Poynter)
–Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines (Columbia Journalism Review)
–How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists (Newsweek)
–In journalism, these women paved the way (Montreal Gazette)
–2012 Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Mexican Journalist Anabel Hernández (WAN-IFRA)
–TV Anchor Sue Simmons Is Being Dropped by WNBC (New York Times)
-WIW12: As Journalists Become Targets, the Need to ‘Bear Witness’ Continues (Conversation with Lynsey Addario at WIW12 via The Daily Beast)
-WIW12: New York Times’ Jill Abramson: “In our newsroom, nearly 40 percent of senior editors and managers are women, and then, of course, there’s me.” (Panel discussion at WIW12 via The Daily Beast
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