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Gender check: 3/15/12 – 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

Chicago Tribune, 3/15/2012

On Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:40 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 15, was titled “Blagojevich heads for prison: ‘I’m leaving with a heavy heart, a clear conscience’.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Non-violent crime, bribery, theft, drugs, corruption (GMMP No. 37)

Word count: 1,209

Author: Staff and wire services

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Unknown, crowd member
  2. Male, subject (former Ill. governor)
  3. Male, U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman
  4. Male, former city clerk who also served for corruption
  5. Male, defense attorney


Website: Chicagoist

On the Chicagoist, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:40 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 15, was titled “’RODios:’ Blagojevich Heads To Prison.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Non-violent crime, bribery, theft, drugs, corruption (GMMP No. 37)

Word count: 248

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, subject (former Ill. governor)

Notes/analysis: The article also references a statement from the subject’s attorneys.

Gender check: 3/13/12 – 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 7:30 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 13, was titled “L.A. council members call for accurate Fire Department figures.”

Here is its breakdown:

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

Word count: 973

Author: Female (1) and Male (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, councilwoman
  2. Male, councilman
  3. Male, community activist
  4. Male, mayoral candidate
  5. Male, spokesman for mayor
  6. Female, spokeswoman for SF fire department
  7. Male, chief
  8. Male, councilman
  9. Female, city controller and mayoral candidate



Website: California Watch

California Watch - 3/13/2012

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 7:30 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 13, was titled “White-dominated boards face legal threats over racial makeup.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Social and legal: Other (GMMP No. 36)

Word count: 2,489

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, councilwoman
  2. Male, of Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College
  3. Male, of consulting firm
  4. Male, city attorney
  5. Male, former legal director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
  6. Male, councilman
  7. Female, city attorney
  8. Male, former councilman (father was also)
  9. Male, retired engineer who ran for office
  10. Male, conservative activist who ran for office
  11. Male, Latino candidate
  12. Male, mayor
  13. Female, councilwoman
  14. Male, attorney and candidate
  15. Male, who served two terms and is running
  16. Male, elected councilman

Women in journalism: Reading list 3/11/12

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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

–Safety of women journalists on the frontline highlighted in new book (The Guardian) – For more related links, see our post on “No Woman’s Land”

–A Byline Count for the Next Generation: How Diverse Are the Blogs and Magazines Most Millennials Read? (GOOD)

–Twenty inspirational women journalists: A list of inspiring female journalists to mark International Women’s Day (Journalism.co.uk)

–International Women’s Day: Remembering the Murdered Women Writers of Mexico (Huffington Post UK)

–How Journalists Can Celebrate Women’s Day (10,000 Words)

–UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2012 (Press release)

–The Daily Beast’s ‘150 Fearless Women’ List Features Media Figures (Huffington Post Media)

–$56,000 Awarded to Four Women-Led News Projects (McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs)

–Naked ambition: Bild drops Page One Girl in bid for women readers (The Guardian)

–Nielsen: Women make up the majority of bloggers (ZDNet)

–Women underrepresented in tech jobs (Poynter)

–Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines (Columbia Journalism Review)

–How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists (Newsweek)

–In journalism, these women paved the way (Montreal Gazette)

–2012 Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Mexican Journalist Anabel Hernández (WAN-IFRA)

–TV Anchor Sue Simmons Is Being Dropped by WNBC (New York Times)

-WIW12: As Journalists Become Targets, the Need to ‘Bear Witness’ Continues (Conversation with Lynsey Addario at WIW12 via The Daily Beast)

-WIW12: New York Times’ Jill Abramson: “In our newsroom, nearly 40 percent of senior editors and managers are women, and then, of course, there’s me.” (Panel discussion at WIW12 via The Daily Beast

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

INSI launches book on female journalists’ experiences in conflict zones

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The International News Safety Institute's "No Woman’s Land: On the Frontlines with Female Reporters" is available at http://www.newssafety.org.

The International News Safety Institute launched a publication titled “No Woman’s Land: On the Frontlines with Female Reporters” in time for International Women’s Day.

The book, sparked by the sexual assault of Lara Logan last year in Tahrir Square, includes a collection of 40 stories of the experiences of women journalists. INSI calls this effort the first book “solely dedicated to the safety of women journalists.”

In addition to Logan, contributors include several BBC correspondents such as Lyse Doucet, Caroline Wyatt and Frances Harrison, as well as Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, al-Jazeera’s Zeina Awad, Somali investigative journalist Fatuma Noor, and countless others.

A panel discussion held for the book’s launch, chaired by Doucet, was live streamed online through Reuters. Check out Twitter comments via the hashtag #nowomansland and in the stream here.

Proceeds of the project go toward the group’s safety training for women journalists.

Here are a few write-ups on the project including excerpts and pieces by some of the books’ contributors.

–Safety of women journalists on the frontline highlighted in new book (The Guardian)

–Women journalists share stories from the frontline (Journalism.co.uk)

–Women reporters on the front line: Tales of survival (BBC)

–Women reporters on the front line: 15 survival tips (BBC)

–On International Women’s Day, reflections from women journalists in war zones (Washington Post)

–“No Woman’s Land” book details newswomen in warzones (Reuters)

–Zeina Awad: On the front lines with female journalists  (Al Jazeera)

–Frances Harrison: My double life as mother and foreign correspondent (Journalism.co.uk)

Gender check: 3/8/12 – 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.

Editor’s note: As we noted last week, our second monitored site, the Chicago News Cooperative, suspended publication as of Feb. 26. As a results, we’ve selected a new Chicago news site to replace it in this checks going forward — the Chicagoist.

Website: Chicago Tribune

On the Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:50 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 8, was titled “Blagojevich to speak before heading to prison.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Non-violent crime, bribery, theft, drugs, corruption (GMMP No. 37)

Word count: 388

Author:  AP (Wire service) – No specific author

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, spokesman
  2. Male, subject


Website: Chicagoist

On the Chicagoist, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:50 a.m. (PT) Thursday, March 8, was titled “Blagojevich Will Not Quietly Enter Prison.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Non-violent crime, bribery, theft, drugs, corruption (GMMP No. 37)

Word count: 144

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, spokesman
  2. Female, attorney