Women in journalism: Reading list for 10/13/2013

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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

–Why Don’t Women Harassed Online Call the Cops? Read This. (XX Factor)

–Tech’s Gender Problem in One Chart (Gawker)

–Women on the Front Lines and Behind the Lens (Lens Blog)

–Essence: Black women still poorly depicted in media (She the People)

–Women bloggers face triumph & threats as they speak up on global corruption (Women News Network)

–Q&A with Marguerite Sullivan: Why Citizen Journalism Makes Media Literacy Crucial (PBS MediaShift)

–Rachel Sklar Emphasizes That Diversity, Inclusiveness Are Good for Business (Ad Week)

–Q&A: NYT Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan (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 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.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 9/15/2013

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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

–‘Riptide’ is great — but where’s the diversity? (Poynter)

–Here’s what you miss by only talking to white men about the digital revolution and journalism (Washington Post)

–Against the Riptide: Rather than simply criticize a report’s omissions, two journalists plan to create their own complementary version (Columbia Journalism Review)

–The Riptide of Titstare (by Rachel Sklar)

–Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage (NPR)

–An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of ‘Super Fun Kid Time’ (Tech Crunch)

–Hona Zarqa: the local women making the media their own (Middle East Monitor)

–Want to See More Women Writers in The New York Times? (Ms. Blog)

–Barbara Buono’s ‘Do Doesn’t Matter (Name it. Change it.)

–Asian rape survey: Why did the AP exclude partner rape from its headline? (XX Factor)

–10 Pioneering Women Changing the Field of Communications (Mashable)

–Anna Holmes, From Jezebel to Gray Lady (Newsweek)

–Exclusive: IAC And Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown To Part Ways (BuzzFeed)

–Megan Liberman Named Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo! News (FishBowlNY)

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.