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
–Women Make the News 2013: Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender (UNESCO)
–Writing about powerful women: The media should stop treating Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer as though they represent their whole gender (Columbia Journalism Review)
–VIDA COUNT 2012: MIC CHECK, REDUX (VIDA: Women in Literary Arts)
–2012 VIDA Byline Gender Parity Count Is Out and Depressing As Ever (Jezebel)
–Dramatic Gender Difference in NPR Stories (Forbes)
–Powerful photo essay on domestic violence stirs backlash (Poynter)
–2013 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier (IWMF)
–Women’s Representation At Big Publications Is Actually Dropping (BuzzFeed)
–A Tale of Two Journalists (Women’s Media Center)
–CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future (Business Week)
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