Author: Jasmine R. Linabary

Gender check: 2/23/12 – 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 Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 11:50 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Feb. 23, was titled “Family of former Bear Dave Duerson sues over his suicide.”

Here is its breakdown:

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

Word count: 827

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, lawyer for family
  2. Male, linebacker

Notes/analysis: The article primarily cites the lawsuit.


Website: Chicago News Cooperative

On Chicago News Cooperative, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as 11:50 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Feb. 23, was titled “Big Quinn Cuts Target Human Services.”

Here is its breakdown:

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

Word count: 557

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, governor
  2. Male, father of man with developmental disabilities
  3. Male, treasurer
  4. Male, state senate president

Gender check: 2/22/12 – West

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Website: Los Angeles Times

On LATimes.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 6:25 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, Feb. 22, was titled “Obama wants to cut corporate tax rate to 28% as part of overhaul.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and Government: Domestic politics, government (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 4)

Word count: 422

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, U.S. president

Notes/analysis: The article includes a photo of the president by a male photographer.


Website: California Watch

On California Watch, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 6:25 a.m. (PST) Wednesday, Feb. 22, was titled “Mentally ill immigrants trapped in US detention without attorneys.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Social and Legal: Legal system, judiciary, legislation apart from family (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 35)

Word count: 2717

Author: Female

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, immigration judge
  2. Male, detained immigrant with a traumatic brain injury
  3. Female, attorney
  4. Female, judge
  5. Male, principal assistant director of office of immigration litigation
  6. Female, mother of a legal permanent resident diagnosed with schizophrenia
  7. Female, spokeswoman
  8. Male, attorney
  9. Male, attorney
  10. Female, judge

Notes/analysis: A photograph with the story features a mother hugging her son after he was released as his father watches. It was taken by a male photographer.

Women in journalism: Reading list 2/19/12

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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.

–Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler (GOOD)

–Promote Women: Use Your Network to Solve the (Byline) Gender Gap (GOOD)

–Little Ms. Journalist (Huffington Post Media)

–The Contraception Mandate: Where Are The Women? (NPR Ombudsman)

–Afghan government asks for headscarves, less make-up on female TV presenters (Reuters)

–Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags (by Hillary Rosner)

–Women’s and celeb magazines suffer circulation decline (Journalism.co.uk)

–At MSNBC, a Professor as TV Host (New York Times)

–Can Melissa Harris-Perry Remove the Race and Gender Blinders from Cable News? (by Jennifer Pozner at AlterNet)

–CBS News Correspondent Clarissa Ward On The Challenges Of Reporting From Syria (TVNewswer)

–Andrea Bruce’s Photographs From Refugee Camps in Afghanistan (Lens Blog – New York Times)

–Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Women in Media, Her Dream Guest, and Being Fair, But Not Balanced (Think Progress)

–Tahrir Square one year on: Interview with journalist Shahira Amin (The Journalism Foundation)

–Sari Horwitz will cover Justice Department for Washington Post (Poynter)

Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. 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. View past week’s round-ups here.

Gender check: 2/16/12 – Midwest

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Website: Chicago Tribune

On the Chicago Tribune, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 10 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Feb. 16, was titled “Police resume search for missing North Barrington woman.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Crime and Violence: Other (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 44)

Word count: 227

Author: Male (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, husband of missing woman

Notes/analysis: The article also references a statement from sheriff’s “officials.”


Website: Chicago News Cooperative

On Chicago News Cooperative, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 10 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Feb. 16, was titled “Proposal Would Limit Protests in Council Chambers.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Politics and Government: Domestic politics, government (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 4)

Word count: 659

Author: Male (2)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, alderman
  2. Male, alderman
  3. Male, director of communications and public policy for the state ACLU
  4. Male, alderman

Notes/analysis: The article includes a photo showing both males and females in attendance at a council meeting and a male protestor getting escorted out. The photo was by a male photographer.

Gender check: 2/15/12 – Northeast

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Website: Boston Globe (Boston.com)

On Boston.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:20 p.m. (PST) Wednesday, Feb. 15, was titled “MBTA Advisory Board proposes 25 percent fare hike, alternatives to steep service cuts.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Economy: Transport (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 17)

Word count: 804

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, executive director of advisory board
  2. Male, general manager
  3. Male, president of taxpayers foundation
  4. Male, spokesman
  5. Male, state representative


Website: Open Media Boston

On Open Media Boston, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:20 p.m. (PST) Wednesday, Feb. 15, was titled “OMB Audio: Conversation with Occupy the “T” Activists.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject: Economy: Transport (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 17)

Word count: 264

Author: Male

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

None (in written portion)

Notes/analysis: The audio clips included with the written part of the post are a conversation by two male reporters with one female and two male organizers.