Author: Jasmine R. Linabary

Women in journalism: Reading list 6/25/2012

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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

–Six Young Female Journalists, One Year Later (Forbes Woman)

–Introducing the FPwomerati (Foreign Policy)

–Top 100 Websites For Women 2012 (Forbes Woman)

–South Africa: Surviving the Trade in the Newsroom As a Woman (AllAfrica)

–Jonah Lehrer’s male arrogance (Salon)

–Managing ed Liz Spayd to exit WashPost (Politico)

–So What Do You Do, Sarah Fenske, Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Weekly? (Mediabistro)

–Q&A with Teresa Rehman (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Marilyn Thompson named Reuters Washington bureau chief (JimRomenesko.com)

–NBC Prepares to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’ (New York Times’ Media Decoder)

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 6/17/2012

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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

–Why 88% of books reviewed by The New York Times are written by white authors (Poynter)

–Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media (TEDx)

–After 40 Years, It’s Still Ms. To Readers (New York Times)

–Female Fox Anchor Walks Off Set After Co-Host’s Sexist Joke (Think Progress)

–Sharing the Success of the 2012 Voices of Our Future Program (World Pulse Blog)

–Indian Journalist Priyanka Borpujari Named 2012-13 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Mexican reporter goes missing with her son, aged two (Guardian)

–Robin Roberts: I’m Going to Beat This (Good Morning America)

–The Feministing Five: Elizabeth Mendez Berry (Feministing)

–Sallie Hofmeister exits LA Times, Curley joins Register (LA Observed)

–Andrea Bruce Wins First Chris Hondros Award (NYTimes Lens Blog)

–Sarah Cohen to join New York Times (JimRomenesko.com)

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.

Gender check: 6/14/12 – Midwest

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*Gender Checks are quick examinations of gender representation in individual news articles for the purpose of discovering trends over time. Click here to read more.

Website: Chicago Tribune

On the Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PT) Thursday, June 14, was titled “Children from Northlake found blindfolded, bound outside Kansas Walmart.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence (GMMP No. 40)

Word count: 319

Author: Staff

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, police sgt.
  2. Male, landlord


Website: Chicagoist

On the Chicagoist, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PT) Thursday, June 14, was titled “All That Pretty June Beach Weather? It’s Killing Farmers’ Crops.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Economy (GMMP No. 15)

Word count: 265

Author:  Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, farmer

Gender check: 6/12/12 – West

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*Gender Checks are quick examinations of gender representation in individual news articles for the purpose of discovering trends over time. Click here to read more.

Website: Los Angeles Times

On LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 10 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, June 12, was titled “State lawmakers will start moving budget plan through Legislature.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and government (GMMP No. 4)

Word count: 755

Author: Male (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, Assembly Budget Committee Chairman
  2. Female, spokeswoman
  3. Male, spokesman
  4. Male and female (joint statement), Senate and House Republican leaders
  5. Male, Democratic strategist
  6. Male, Senate President Pro Tem
  7. Male, governor
  8. Male, lobbyist


Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 10 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, June 12, was titled “Seismic regulator must improve building plan oversight.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Social and legal (GMMP No. 27)

Word count: 688

Author:  Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, director of the Department of General Services
  2. Female, Senate Majority Leader

Women in journalism: Reading list 6/10/2012

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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 in Journalism: Be not afraid, for we are taking over (by Mandy Jenkins)

–New media—but familiar lack of diversity: Women, people of color still marginalized online (FAIR Extra!)

–Return to Gender: Persistent Byline Gap Prompts Pitching and Moaning (and Partying!) (New York Observer)

–Women candidates need to fight back against innuendo (Kansas City Star)

–What do men want? Dudepins thinks it’s ‘the man-cave version of Pinterest’ (Poynter)

–Former ‘New York Times’ editor called Hillary Clinton WHAT? (Huffington Post)

–Call For Nominations: Top 100 Websites For Women 2012 (Forbes)

–Shake Up Shack: New York Times Has New Police Bureau Chief (New York Observer)

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.