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Women in journalism: Reading list for 10/27/2013

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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 Who Risk Their Lives For Journalism (HuffPost Live)

–How to Write About Rape: Rules for Journalists (The Nation)

–Black Girl ‘Geeks’ Want To See More Of Themselves In Comics (NPR)

–A world of women: The BBC’s “100 Women” series spotlights global women’s issues (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Women On Air But Still Not Calling The Shots On TV (New Matilda)

–Twitter hires Vivian Schiller as head of news (Poynter)

–Why Can’t I Be You: Jane Pratt (Rookie Mag)

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 for 10/20/2013

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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: not a trivial subject (Open Democracy)

–SciAm Apologizes for Deleting Blogger’s (Danielle N. Lee) Post on Being Called a ‘Whore’ (Jezebel)

–Don’t Be a Creep, and Other Lessons From the Latest Scandal in the Science Blogging World (Slate)

–Women Reporter & Staffers Barred From Lhota Event at Synagogue (WNYC)

–Topless women endure in the UK press: Women have been organizing against the tabloid mainstay, but some editors maintain that it’s a good way to sell papers (Columbia Journalism Review)

–REPORT: Once Again, Sunday Morning Talk Shows Are White, Male, And Conservative (MMFA)

–A Striking Absence of Women (New York Times) Regarding Twitter

–Times deputy editor hails ‘phenomenal’ rise of women in newspapers (The Guardian)

–A guy from the New York Times attends Girl Hunter Weekend and isn’t happy to see another reporter there (JimRomenesko.com)

–A Photographer (Hannah Price) Turns Her Lens On Men Who Catcall (NPR)

–Jezebel Founding Editor Anna Holmes On Her New Book — And How She Changed Women’s Media (Huffington Post)

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 for 10/6/2013

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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

–How “Jezebel” Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click (Mother Jones)

–MIPCOM: The 25 Most Powerful Women in Global TV (The Hollywood Reporter)

–Broadcast journalist Fatou Camara held without charge in Gambia (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Sarah Bartlett Named New Dean of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (New York Observer)

–Kathy Best named new Seattle Times editor; newsroom leadership team announced (Seattle Times)

–Q&A: Guardian social and community editor Joanna Geary heads off to Twitter U.K. (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Q&A: Videographer, Sachi Cunningham (ReportHers)

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 for 9/29/2013

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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

–Dangers to Female Journalists Get Added Up (Women’s eNews)

–How YouTube is failing women (Daily Dot)

–Bringing Mobile Technology to the World’s Women (The Daily Beast)

–Digital Connections Empower Women to Change Their Futures (Mashable)

–Emmy Winners Still Mostly Male (Women’s Media Center)

–Here’s This Thing I Wrote About Women and Self-Promotion (New York Magazine’s The Cut)

–Lee Thornton, First African American Woman to Cover the White House for TV, Has Died (TVNewser)

–Q&A: Multimedia Producer, Marisa Wong (ReportHers)

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 for 9/22/2013

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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

–Female Editors Written Off: A look at major media outlets without women at the helm (Daily Beast)

–Women Are Covering The Hell Out Of The Syria War — So Why Haven’t You Noticed? (Buzzfeed)

–The six men on this list of tech writers most willing to be replaced by women (Medium)

–Media need to stop portraying women simply as ‘touchline totty’ (The Guardian)

–The New Republic’s women problem: 80% of its readers are men (Politico)

–Women’s Issues Are Not “Soft”: Sexism and the Urge to Devalue (BlogHer)

–INFOGRAPHIC: Why Don’t Women Directors Win Emmys? (MissRepresentation)

–Star Tribune editor Nancy Barnes is named Houston Chronicle editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Nancy Gibbs Named Managing Editor of Time: She’s the magazine’s first female m.e. (AdWeek)

–Journalism books that tell it how it was, how it is and how it should be (The Guardian) Third book featured is Suzanne Franks’ Women and 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.