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Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/26/2013

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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

–Sports Journalism’s Beauty Curse (Daily Beast)

–Study: Women Movie Critics Fewer Than 20% on Rotten Tomatoes (The Wrap)

–Report: Minorities, Women Underrepresented in Canadian Writing Rooms (Hollywood Reporter)

–Incoming BBC news director promises action for more on-air female journalists (The Independent)

–The World’s Most Powerful Women 2013 (Forbes) – The list includes media figures like New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson (No. 19), editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour (No. 41), and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group Arianna Huffington (No. 56), among others.

–‘Lucky Guy,’ and lucky newspaper readers (She the People)

–NBC News confirms ITV’s Deborah Turness as president (The Guardian)

–$24,000 prize to help young journalist change the world (Detroit Free Press)

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport[at]gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/19/2013

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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

–Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best (NPR)

–Do you think about gender on Twitter? (Twee-Q)

–Open Gender Tracker analyses gender balance in the media (Journalism.co.uk)

–Where have all the women gone in movies? (LA Times)

–Marissa Mayer’s Widower Debuts on Philanthropic Stage (Flip the News) – The Laurene Jobs story recast as a Zach Bogue story.

–Sports Illustrated Loves Models. Female Athletes? Not So Much (Jezebel)

–Why are Indian women being attacked on social media? (BBC News India)

–NPR Describes Senator Gillibrand as “petite, blond and perky” (Miss Representation)

–Shameful: Washington Times Column Blames Female Service Members for Assault, Calls Them Liars (Huffington Post)

–No, You Cannot Substitute ‘Sex’ For ‘Rape’ (Think Progress)

–Once Again, Media Asks Wrong Questions and Blames Victims (Ms. Magazine)

–REPORT: Diversity On Evening Cable News In 13 Charts (Media Matters)

–Walters to Announce 2014 Retirement on ‘The View’ (New York Times)

–Why We’ll Miss Glass Ceiling-Breaker Barbara Walters (KQED)

–Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon as late-night white-guy beat goes on (She the People)

–Still Shooting After the End of War (NYTimes Lens Blog) On Stacy Pearsall

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport[at]gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/12/2013

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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

–ESPN’s interchangeable women (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Sexism and the Single Murderess (New York Times)

–Female Journalists In India Being Abused On Twitter (All Twitter)

–Iraqi women journalists win essay contest (United Nations Radio)

–Elyse Tanouye is named Wall Street Journal content development editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Cyndi Stivers Joins AOL as Editor-In-Chief of AOL.com (AOL Blog)

–Monday Q&A: The New York Times’ new head of video production Rebecca Howard on plans for growth (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Why Robin Roberts Is the Most Trusted Woman on Television (Reader’s Digest)

–Katie Couric: Women At Work, Social Media And Her Best Career Advice (Forbes)

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport[at]gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/5/2013

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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

–‘Forbidden Voices’: Female bloggers fight for freedom of speech (CNN)

–’100 Percent Men’ Tumblr highlights gender gap in media, tech, politics (Poynter)

–2013 National Magazine Awards widen scope, and women win (Poynter)

–The International Women’s Media Foundation announces its 2013 Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award winners (IWMF)

–‘See you on the other side’: Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)

–WMC Announces A Celebration of the Life of Mary Thom (Women’s Media Center)

–She Works: The Only Woman in the Room (NPR) On Nina Totenberg, NPR’s legal affairs correspondent

–Hollywood’s utter failure to accurately portray female journalists (The Week)

–Sarah Stierch Emerges as Wikipedia’s ‘Go-To Woman’ (Women’s eNews)

–Carolyn Ryan is named New York Times political editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Jennifer Forsyth is named Wall Street Journal US editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–The Pulitizer-Prize Winner As a Young Feminist (Ms. Blog) On Quiara Alegria Hudes

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport[at]gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 4/28/2013

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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

–Jill Abramson: ‘Very Unpopular’ Or Just Doing Her Job? (Huffington Post) Read more about the response to Politico’s critical piece on Abramson here.

–Can Politico spot gender issues? (by Erik Wemple at the Washington Post)

–The 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech (Business Insider)

–Longform Journalism, By Women, For Women (American Journalism Review)

–‘The Mommy Business Trip’ And Other Silly Insults To Women (Huffington Post)

–ChartGirl boxes the news (by Jack Shafer)

–What I Learned About Gender Roles From Watching The Trailers For Every Summer Action Movie (Think Progress)

–Grace: A pioneering Nebraska journalist looks at women who paved the way for her (Omaha.com)

–The Women’s Media Center Mourns the Loss of Mary Thom, Author, Feminist, Editor (Women’s Media Center)

–So What Do You Do, Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD.com? (Mediabistro)

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport[at]gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.