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.
Political Coverage
The Women’s Media Center and The 4th Estate Project partnered to release new findings on the gender gap in political coverage. According to an analysis of coverage of the 2012 presidential election at 35 newspapers, men wrote 76 percent of articles during the GOP primary period (Jan. 1 to April 15) and 72 percent of the articles during the general election period thus far (April 16 to Aug. 25). Here are related articles and the press release from the Women’s Media Center:
–Three-Quarters of Newspapers’ Presidential Coverage is Written by Men (Women’s Media Center)
–Men are Telling the Stories of Election 2012 (4thEstate.net)
-Male Journalists May Dominate Campaign Coverage, But Look What Women Write About (XX Factor)
–Three-Quarters Of The Presidential News You Read Is Written By Men (Forbes Woman)
General Interest Links
–Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any (Columbia Journalism Review)
–RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ (Talking Points Memo)
–CNN Camerawoman [Patricia Carroll] On Harassment At RNC: ‘I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all’ (TV Newser)
–Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave (Think Progress)
–‘Good Girls’ Tells of Women’s Fight for Rights at Newsweek (New York Times)
–On the frontline with female reporters (The Media Online)
–“Our World, My Voice: GlobalGirls Talk Politics” Blog Campaign (Global Girl Media)
-Is Sexual Violence on TV OK if the Heroine Is Tough? (XX Factor)
–The Feministing Five: Rose Aguilar (Feministing)
–Robin Roberts Moves Last Day on “GMA” Before Medical Leave to Thursday (ABC News)
–Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com (Poynter)
–Patch loses communications director Janine Iamunno (JimRomenesko.com)
–Sullivan says goodbye to Buffalo News to become NYT ombud (Poynter)
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