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Women in journalism: Reading list 11/4/2012

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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

–Women take on BBC over failure to get female experts on air (Guardian)

–Election Coverage Falls Short on “Women’s Issues” (Women’s Media Center)

–The Age of Hipster Sexism (New York Magazine)

–Introducing ‘The Sexes’ (The Atlantic)

–U.S. Media Elite Honor Female Pakistani Journalist [Zubeida Mustafa] for Her Courage (Huffington Post)

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.

Byline Report: Week of 10/21/12 to 10/27/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 17: Oct. 21 2012 – Oct. 27, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 54.5%
  • Percent by men: 36.4%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 9.1%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 42.1%
  • Percent by men: 36.8%
  • Percent shared: 15.8%
  • Percent by other*: 5.3%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 26.1%
  • Percent by men: 66.1%
  • Percent shared:  4.3%
  • Percent by other*: 3.4%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 63.6%
  • Percent by men: 36.4%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 26.5%
  • Percent by men: 65.5%
  • Percent shared: 5.3%
  • Percent by other*: 2.7%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 14.1%
  • Percent by men: 83.1%
  • Percent shared: 2.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%
  • Note: Duplicates were removed so each article was only counted once.

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

Women in journalism: Reading list 10/28/2012

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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

–CNN says women vote with their hormones (CJR)

–CNN removes story about hormones affecting a woman’s vote (Poynter)

–Women from Azerbaijan, Gaza, Ethiopia win courage in journalism awards (Washington Post)

–CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux talks with Pakistani journalist Zubeida Mustafa about being the only woman in her newsroom (CNN)

-A Mother’s Blog and a Nanny’s Absence Online: How Digital Reporting Changes How We Understand the Krim Murders (XX Factor)

–Women’s sport is underfunded and ignored, charity claims (Guardian)

–After college, pay gender gap begins for most grads — but not communications major (Poynter)

–Revised study: White journalists wrote 93% of front page presidential election stories, but… (Poynter)

–Erin Andrews Receives Death Threats From Strange Twitter Troll (Mashable)

–Monday Q&A: Pulitzer-winner Sara Ganim on working the crime beat in the digital age (Nieman Journalism Lab)

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.

Byline Report: Week of 10/14/12 to 10/20/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 16: Oct. 14 2012 – Oct. 20, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 58.3%
  • Percent by men: 41.7%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 42.9%
  • Percent by men: 42.9%
  • Percent shared: 9.5%
  • Percent by other*: 4.8%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 27.7%
  • Percent by men: 62%
  • Percent shared:  4.3%
  • Percent by other*: 6%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 12.5%
  • Percent by men: 75%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 12.5%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 32.1%
  • Percent by men: 58.5%
  • Percent shared: 5.7%
  • Percent by other*: 3.8%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 27.8%
  • Percent by men: 72.2%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%
  • Note: Duplicates were removed so each article was only counted once.

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

Women in journalism: Reading list 10/21/2012

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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

–Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai can stand, communicate, hospital says (CNN)

–Sonia Dridi, Cairo Reporter, ‘Savagely Attacked’: France 24 TV (AP)

–Study: Women no longer need exceptional qualifications to win Pulitzers, but… (Poynter)

–Talk to the Times: Questions for Jill Abramson, Executive Editor (New York Times)

–Wilhelmina Model Robyn Lawley On Twitter’s Shameful Candy Crowley Attacks (Daily Beast)

–Teen who petitioned for female debate moderator: ‘No one — man or woman — could have done it better’ (Poynter)

–Good Girls Don’t: After suing Newsweek for sex discrimination, some women ran up against their own timidity (Nieman Reports)

–Sexist stereotypes dominate front pages of British newspapers, research finds (Guardian)

–Why does this shocking dearth of women in the media persist? (Guardian)

–Twitter Seeks Woman for Its All-Male Board [REPORT] (Mashable)

–One month in, Margaret Sullivan talks about the changing role of New York Times Public Editor (Poynter)

–So What Do You Do, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC Host and Tulane University Professor? (Mediabistro)

–Penske Puts a Woman in Charge at Variety (Fishbowl LA) Michelle Sobrino-Stearns named first-ever female publisher.

–Kristina O’Neill named editor of WSJ. Magazine (JimRomenesko.com)

–Why Heidi N. Moore is leaving ‘Marketplace’ for the Guardian (Poynter)

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.