Author: Jasmine R. Linabary

Gender check: 3/27/12 – 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

LATimes.com, 3/27/2012

On the LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 27, was titled “Healthcare, Day 2: Supreme Court argument turns to insurance mandate.

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Social and legal: Legal system, judicary, legislation apart from family (GMMP No. 35)

Word count: 558

Author: Male (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

None.


Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 27, was titled “Want to lose weight? Add chocolate to diet, study suggests.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Science and health: Science, technology, research, discoveries (GMMP No. 19)

Word count: 397

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, researcher

Women in journalism: Reading list 3/25/12

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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

–State of the News Media 2012 (Project for Excellence in Journalism) – Five of top 20 newsmakers in 2011 were women.

–Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women in Journalism (Engenderings)

–Four Women-Led News Projects Pick Up Prizes from McCormick Foundation (MediaShift Idea Lab)

–JAWS CAMP Fellowships available for 2012 (Journalism & Women Symposium)

–Channel 4’s gender equality under the spotlight as several key women leave (Guardian)

–Dorothy Townsend dies at 88; L.A. Times reporter broke newsroom barrier (LA Times)

–Equal access: Melissa Ludtke broke barriers as a female reporter (National Baseball Hall of Fame)

–WaPo loses another top exec (Romenesko) – Jenny Abramson leaving to join a D.C.-based digital start-up

–Melanie Sill, former Sacramento Bee editor, selected as KPCC’s executive editor (KPCC)

–‘One of the Hardest-Working Women in Television Journalism’ (TVNewser) – On MSNBC’s Chris Jansing

–Liberian Writer Mae Azango Forced Into Hiding for Story on Female Genital Cutting (Daily Beast)

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: 3/22/12 – 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 11:05 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 22, was titled “NATO notebook: Quinn hawks state, ‘warmly received’.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Economy: Economic policies, strategies, modules, etc. (GMMP No. 9)

Word count: 491

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, governor
  2. Male, personnel manager for company
  3. Female, wife of Chicago mayor
  4. Male, NATO staffer
  5. Male, NATO employee


Website: Chicagoist

On the Chicagoist, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 11:05 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 22, was titled “L-Vis Live! At Victory Gardens.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Celebrity, Arts, Media and Sports: Arts, entertainment, leisure, cinema, books, dance, etc (GMMP No. 46)

Word count: 210

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

None.

Gender check: 3/20/12 – 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 the LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:45 p.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 20, was titled “Mitt Romney wins Illinois presidential primary.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and government: Other, domestic politics and government (No. 4)

Word count: 1,000

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned)

None

Notes/analysis: The article contained no quote or sources other than general references to voters and campaigns.


Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:45 p.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 20, was titled “State will not appeal court ruling on First 5 funds.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Social and legal: Legal system, judiciary, legislation (GMMP No. 35)

Word count: 676

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, superior court judge
  2. Male, director of public affairs
  3. Female, executive director
  4. Female, assistant executive director
  5. Male, spokesman for department of finance
  6. Male, attorney

Notes/analysis: The “spotlight” story at the time of the site visit was a video project posted by a female but done by a male and female. As a result, the above gender checked story is the daily report story.

Women in journalism: Reading list 3/18/12

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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

–Zimbabwe’s Female Journalists Get U.S. Backing to Promote Equity in The Newsrooms (Voice of America)

–Female journalists offer students insights (The National) – a panel discussion as part of the Women as Global Leaders conference hosted by Zayed University

–#jpod – Gender and conflict journalism: How far have we come? (Journalism.co.uk)

–Scripps Howard Awards announced (Poynter)

–Her Rightful Place (Insider Higher Ed) – female philosophers and the New York Times’ obits

–Reporting on conflict: ‘No-brainer that women are out there’ (Journalism.co.uk)

–Are Book Publishers To Blame For Gender Discrimination? (Huffington Post)

–Future of Feminism: No More Media Sexualization of Women (Ms. Blog)

–Alice C. Steinbach, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78 (Baltimore Sun)

–In Liberia, reporting on genital mutilation draws threats (CPJ)

–Liberia: IFJ Calls On Govt to Protect Threatened Female Journalist (AllAfrica)

–Azerbaijan journalist ‘blackmailed’ with explicit video (The New Age)

–Man arrested in connection to assault on journalist (INSI)

–Marie Colvin: Mourners say farewell to ‘talented, compassionate’ war reporter (The Guardian)

–Jill Abramson on the NYT as local vs. international paper: ‘We can have it all’ (Poynter)

–‘WSJ’ hires away ‘New York Times’ social media editor Liz Heron (Capital New York)

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.