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Gender check: 3/6/12 – 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, 3/6/2012

On the LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 6:45 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 6, was titled “World powers offer to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and government: Peace, negotiations, treaties (GMMP No. 3)

Word count: 435

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, EU foreign minister
  2. Male, British foreign secretary


Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 6:45 a.m. (PT) Tuesday, March 6, was titled “SF officials urged to bring terror task force under local control.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Political and government: Other (GMMP No. 8)

Word count: 699

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, county supervisor
  2. Female, of Asian Law Caucus
  3. Female, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations

Notes/analysis: The top and first featured spotlight article this week was the same as it was the previous week. Therefore, the daily report was pulled as the lead article.

Women in journalism: Reading list 3/4/12

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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.

VIDA: The 2011 count

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released its 2011 count of male and female bylines at top magazines, showing a disparity in the number of female book reviewers and books by women that are reviewed compared to men. Web writers and journalists alike took notice of this release. Here are just a few of the related write-ups and responses:

–Gender bias in books journalism remains acute, research shows (The Guardian)

–Where in the world are women? Still not being published or reviewed, says VIDA (New York Daily News)

–America’s Top Magazines: Still Not Hiring Women (Think Progress)

–Half of MoJo’s Bylines Are Women’s (Mother Jones)

–Thought Leadership by Gender, as Reflected in Bylines (by Ann Friedman)

–Institutional sexism of books world needs new girls’ network (by Jennifer Weiner)

–Do Women Count? (by E.J. Graff)

–Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning (by Alyssa Rosenberg)

General interest links

–Broadcasters urged to increase numbers of female experts on air (Women’s Views on News)

–Young Woman in Yemen Among New Breed of Citizen Journalists (Voice of America)

–UNL journalism project on Native women gets $150K boost (Lincoln Journal Star)

–Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare(Women’s Media Center)

–Germany’s top female journalists call for women quotas in media (The Guardian)

–Shadid’s wife [also a journalist] confesses being ‘mad’ at journalism (Washington Post)

–French journalist tells of escape from Homs (Reuters) – Regarding Edith Bouvier

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.

Gender check: 3/1/12 – Midwest

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Website: Chicago Tribune

On the Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:15 p.m. (PST) Thursday, March 1, was titled “One street, five deaths: Harrisburg tornado fatalities concentrated in close-knit neighborhood.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Disaster, accident, famine, flood, plane crash, etc. (GMMP No. 43)

Word count: 1,108

Author: Male (1) and female (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, daughter of a woman killed in the storm
  2. Female, whose daughter-in-law was injured
  3. Male, duplex owner
  4. Female, paternal grandmother of a woman who died
  5. Female, maternal grandmother of a woman who died
  6. Female, granddaughter of a woman who died
  7. Female, sister of a woman who died
  8. Male, brother of a woman who died
  9. Male, mayor
  10. Male, science support branch chief at storm prediction center

Notes/analysis: The article includes numerous videos and other related features.


Website: Chicago News Cooperative

In addition to the Chicago Tribune, we’ve been monitoring the Chicago News Cooperative since we started our second year of Gender Checks two weeks ago. Unfortunately, the Chicago News Cooperative suspended publication as of Feb. 26. We’ll be selecting another Chicago site to replace it in our Gender Checks in the weeks going forward.

Gender check: 2/28/12 – West

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Website: Los Angeles Times

On the LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:45 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Feb. 28, was titled “Ohio school shooting: Death toll rises to 2; police search woods.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Violent crime, murder, abduction, assault, etc. (GMMP No. 38)

Word count: 392

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, U.S. secretary of education
  2. Male, reported friend of the suspect
  3. Unknown, attorney


Website: California Watch

California Watch 2/28/2012

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:45 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Feb. 28, was titled “Basic police work ignored in autistic patient’s suspicious death.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and violence: Other crime/violence – Investigation (GMMP No. 44)

Word count: 4,153

Author:  Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, detective
  2. Male, detective
  3. Female, department director
  4. Female, mother
  5. Male, older brother
  6. Male, caregiver on duty
  7. Female, supervisor
  8. Unknown, neurosurgeon
  9. Female, lead detective
  10. Male, doctor
  11. Female, doctor
  12. Male, detective
  13. Male, prosecutor
  14. Female, patient advocate
  15. Male, chief deputy coroner
  16. Male, biomechanical engineering professor

Notes/analysis: Both a male and a female reporter contributed to this story.

 

Women in journalism: Reading list 2/26/12

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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.

In Memory: Marie Colvin

Award-winning foreign correspondent Marie Colvin died in Syria this week alongside photojournalist Remi Ochlik. Colvin was remembered in numerous tributes across the web. Here are just a few:

–The Risks of Bearing Witness: Discussing Marie Colvin’s Legacy (New York Magazine)

–Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images (Op-ed by Hannah Storm on CNN)

–Marie Colvin: The death of a role model (by Helena Williams for the Press Gazette)

–Profile: Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent (Reuters)

–Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik killed in Syria: Their last work and words (Washington Post)

–Marie Colvin killed in Homs: tributes to Sunday Times journalist (Telegraph) – A round-up of statement about her death

–Great Female Journalists (Independent) – A gallery of nine women starting with Colvin

General interest links

–FishbowlDC’s Rothstein criticized for accusing female journalists of going for ‘the sexpot look’ (Poynter) – Includes a round-up of other articles related to the incident

–More Discussion but Few Changes on Sexual Violence (by Lauren Wolfe as part of the Committee to Project Journalists’ Attacks on the Press in 2011)

–Boys’ Clubhouse: Why Women Should Write About Sports (GOOD)

–How many times has Elizabeth Warren been called darling? (Name It Change It)

–On #dailywife and writing for the “women’s pages” (by Rachel Hills)

–How To Be a Feminist in the Sports Culture Boys’ Club (If You Want To) (Women, Action & the Media)

–Telling Stories in Contemporary Spain: A Survey of Women Writing Literary Journalism (World Literature Today)

–Has confessional journalism gone too far? Yvonne Roberts and Lucy Cavendish discuss (The Guardian)

–Coming clean on sex pests in the newsroom (The Australian)

–How ‘Grammar Girl’ turned a single hobby podcast into a growing media network (Nieman Lab)

–Margaret Low Smith to head NPR News (Poynter)

–Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC gives new face to cable news (by Anna Holmes on the Washington Post)

–‘Trailblazer’ Belva Davis to Retire From KQED After Presidential Election (TVSpy)

–Interview: Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan, on how sex sells (The Guardian)

–Safe at home: A feature on Lara Logan (New York Times Style Magazine)

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.