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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.

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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 6/3/2012

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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

–It’s 2012 already: why is opinion writing still mostly male? (Columbia Journalism Review) Regarding The OpEd Project’s latest byline survey. See our related post for a round-up of coverage.

–Men Rule Media Coverage of Women’s News (The Daily Beast) (Disclosure: The Gender Report’s co-founders are quoted)

–Why Women Can’t Get Away From “Soft” News (BuzzFeed)

–Former public editor Okrent would like to see New York Times hire female ombud (Poynter)

–Why are there so few female national newspaper editors? (Guardian)

–Women use radio to fight sexual violence (Guardian)

–#GEN2012: Three ideas for getting more women in journalism management (Journalism.co.uk)

–Afghan Broadcaster Defies Expectations of Women (IWPR)

–Vogue Fails Miserably at Capturing the Athleticism of Olympic Athletes (Jezebel)

–I Don’t Want To Be The “Nanny” At Work (BuzzFeed)

–Can the Inquirer Survive on Aging Testosterone? (The Philly Post)

–Promising writer, Yale grad Marina Keegan dies in weekend car accident (Poynter)

–Beyond the Bucket List: Journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel’s Journey (Wall Street Journal)

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 5/28/2012

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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

–Forbes.com contributor deletes post about Sheryl Sandberg after people call it sexist (Poynter)

–The Lazy Stereotyping of Executive Women: A Case Study (Forbes Woman)

–Hustler Magazine Sparks Rage With a Rude Image of Pundit S.E. Cupp
 (Daily Beast)

–Gloria Steinem, Women’s Media Center Denounce Hustler Attack On Conservative Commentator (Women’s Media Center)

–The Five Most Sexist/Misogynistic Print Ads From The Last Five Years (BuzzFeed)

–FAIR numbers (OpEd Project Byline Blog) About a byline count of op-eds in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times

–Geena Davis battles media’s portrayal of women (The Tennessean)

–A New York Times Whodunit (New York Magazine) About the exit of Janet Robinson

–Huffington Post Gets Its First Publisher (Janet Balis) Amid Broader AOL Changes (Ad Age)

–Katharine Zaleski to leave Washington Post for NY video startup (Poynter)

–She’s Making News: Paula Zahn (Paley Center)

–Walters shares wisdom from her ‘most thoughtful’ interviewees  (Yale News)

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 5/20/2012

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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

–Working on a Presidential Campaign Could Make You Fat, Married (The Atlantic Wire)

–Older female newsreaders forced to become ‘Stepford Wives’ if they want to keep their jobs (The Independent)

–Saying ‘No’ to Picture Perfect (New York Times)

–Reports highlight ‘silencing crime’: sexual violence against journalists (Global Journalist)

–An unflinching witness (CJR) On Marie Colvin

–Marie Colvin: Tributes paid to ‘heroic’ journalist (BBC)

–On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin, By Marie Colvin (The Independent)

–Dalglish Named New Dean of UMD’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism (UMD Newsdesk)

–Ex-editor speaks frankly about the state of newspapers (JimRomenesko.com) On an interview with Ellen Soeteber

–Susanne Reber joins Center for Investigative Reporting after NPR departure (Poynter)

–Valérie Trierweiler, France’s new first lady, is a journalist (Poynter)

Watch List

-VIDEO: 100 Years of Women in Journalism (The 100 Project) – See below and check out The 100 Project from the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism

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.