Byline Report: Week of 8/26/12 to 9/1/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 9: Aug. 26, 2012 – Sept. 1, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 56.3%
  • Percent by men: 37.5%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 6.3%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 37.5%
  • Percent by men: 62.5%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 28.3%
  • Percent by men: 63.1%
  • Percent shared:  4.5%
  • Percent by other*: 4%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 40%
  • Percent by men: 60%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 23.4%
  • Percent by men: 73.4%
  • Percent shared: 2.1%
  • Percent by other*: 1.1%
  • Note: One link was dead and was not counted in the total.

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 29.7%
  • Percent by men: 68.8%
  • Percent shared: 1.6%
  • Percent by other*: 0%
  • Note: Duplicates were removed so each article was only counted once.

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

GOP, Democratic conventions focus on “war on women”

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As the political climate heats up and party conventions are in full swing, both the media and the parties themselves are still pushing, or defending, a “war on women” from both parties. The term first widely circulated earlier this spring during debates over changes to healthcare. The term is now used by both sides to refer to any issue, valid or otherwise, that could woo potential female voters.

Last week’s Republican convention in Tampa started under the shadow of comments made by Missouri congressman Todd Akin, who said “legitimate” rapes rarely resulted in pregnancies. Leading up to the convention the republican party’s leaders, including Gov. Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, and GOP chairman Reince Priebus insisted Akin remove himself from his senate race; he still refuses to drop out.

As the convention played out, the speaker line up clearly showed the republican party chasing after female (and minority) voters. According to the Huffington Post, female republican governors had a 75 percent chance of speaking, a disproportionate representation of their actual presence in office (women hold four of the 29 republican offices). Women at the convention downplayed social issues such as abortion and gay marriage in an attempt to bring all focus in the race to economic issues.

As the Democrats begin to fill Charlotte for their own party’s convention, women’s healthcare and abortion rights will likely be highlighted as reasons for women to vote with the democratic party. The Washington Post noted “You couldn’t move without bumping into a feminist leader” as convention preparations were underway.

Want more political coverage from the Gender Report? Look for our “Candidates at a Glance” profiles this Tuesday and Wednesday, where we will examine voting records, public comments, and media perceptions of both tickets.

Women in journalism: Reading list 9/2/2012

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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.

Political Coverage

The Women’s Media Center and The 4th Estate Project partnered to release new findings on the gender gap in political coverage. According to an analysis of coverage of the 2012 presidential election at 35 newspapers, men wrote 76 percent of articles during the GOP primary period (Jan. 1 to April 15) and 72 percent of the articles during the general election period thus far (April 16 to Aug. 25). Here are related articles and the press release from the Women’s Media Center:

–Three-Quarters of Newspapers’ Presidential Coverage is Written by Men (Women’s Media Center)

–Men are Telling the Stories of Election 2012 (4thEstate.net)

-Male Journalists May Dominate Campaign Coverage, But Look What Women Write About (XX Factor)

–Three-Quarters Of The Presidential News You Read Is Written By Men (Forbes Woman)

General Interest Links

–Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any (Columbia Journalism Review)

–RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ (Talking Points Memo)

–CNN Camerawoman [Patricia Carroll] On Harassment At RNC: ‘I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all’ (TV Newser)

–Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave (Think Progress)

–‘Good Girls’ Tells of Women’s Fight for Rights at Newsweek (New York Times)

–On the frontline with female reporters (The Media Online)

–“Our World, My Voice: GlobalGirls Talk Politics” Blog Campaign (Global Girl Media)

-Is Sexual Violence on TV OK if the Heroine Is Tough? (XX Factor)

–The Feministing Five: Rose Aguilar (Feministing)

–Robin Roberts Moves Last Day on “GMA” Before Medical Leave to Thursday (ABC News)

–Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com (Poynter)

–Patch loses communications director Janine Iamunno (JimRomenesko.com)

–Sullivan says goodbye to Buffalo News to become NYT ombud (Poynter)

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.

Byline Report: Week of 8/19/12 to 8/25/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 8: Aug. 19, 2012 – Aug. 25, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 52.9%
  • Percent by men: 35.3%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 11.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity**

  • Percent by women: 43.8%
  • Percent by men: 31.3%
  • Percent shared: 3.1%
  • Percent by other*: 21.9%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 28.3%
  • Percent by men: 58.6%
  • Percent shared:  4.9%
  • Percent by other*: 8.2%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 53.8%
  • Percent by men: 15.4%
  • Percent shared: 15.4%
  • Percent by other*: 15.4%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 27.5%
  • Percent by men: 65.2%
  • Percent shared: 2.9%
  • Percent by other*: 4.3%
  • Note: One link was dead and was not counted in the total.

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 29.2%
  • Percent by men: 70.8%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%
  • Note: Duplicates were removed so each article was only counted once.

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

**iWatch changed its name back to The Center for Public Integrity as of Aug. 19, 2012. Read about the change here.

Women in journalism: Reading list 8/26/2012

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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

–Every Woman’s Story Counts — Including Yours (Huffington Post)

–Minority employment up in TV and radio, widening gap with print (Poynter)

–Women’s Media Center To Launch Live Talk Radio Show (Women’s Media Center)

–Abramson 5th on Forbes ‘Power Women’ list (Politico)

–Japanese Journalist’s Final Report From Syria Is Released After Her Death (NY Times The Lede) On the passing of Mika Yamamoto

–Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway (NY Times Lens Blog)

–Angelina Jolie gave NBC an Ann Curry ultimatum? (SheKnows)

–Megan Garvey named assistant managing editor, digital (LA Times)

–In internet time, two months = nearly eight years (by Staci Kramer at paidContent)

–Spiers’ last issue of ‘The New York Observer’ (Capital New York)

–Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily (Politico) On Andrea Seabrook

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.