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Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/18/2014

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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, media and technology during the past week, as well as articles related to the intersections of gender, race, class, nationality, ability, and sexual orientation and the media. 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

–Times Ousts Jill Abramson as Executive Editor, Elevating Dean Baquet (New York Times). With so many articles being written about this, we’ve compiled a separate reading list, which can be accessed here.

–RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic (Washington Post)

–Bearing Witness, Losing Her Life: On the passing of Camille Lepage (Lens Blog)

–2014 Courage in Journalism Awards (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–This Fall, TV Looks Much More Diverse: Now Don’t Screw It Up (NPR)

–The Real Story About the Wrong Photos in #BringBackOurGirls (Lens Blog)

–Obits reflect bias ‘of our forebears,’ NYT editor says (Poynter)

–No Cannes Do – The Status of Women Directors at Cannes Over the Last Decade (Women and Hollywood)

–Le Monde editor Natalie Nougayrède quits after power struggle with top staff (Guardian)

–So-called women’s issues (Ann Friedman)

–Still Talking About It: ‘Where Are the Women?’ (NYT Public Editor)

–NPR Pays Tribute to Pioneering Female Journalist Nellie Bly (Fishbowl NY)

–Micheline Maynard to lead National Center for Business Journalism at ASU (Poynter)

–Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair’s website (Poynter)

–Judith Cummings, Chief of a Bureau for The Times, Dies at 68 (New York Times)

Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpufCall
Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpuf
Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpuf

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.

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/5/2013

Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

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

–‘Forbidden Voices’: Female bloggers fight for freedom of speech (CNN)

–’100 Percent Men’ Tumblr highlights gender gap in media, tech, politics (Poynter)

–2013 National Magazine Awards widen scope, and women win (Poynter)

–The International Women’s Media Foundation announces its 2013 Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award winners (IWMF)

–‘See you on the other side’: Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)

–WMC Announces A Celebration of the Life of Mary Thom (Women’s Media Center)

–She Works: The Only Woman in the Room (NPR) On Nina Totenberg, NPR’s legal affairs correspondent

–Hollywood’s utter failure to accurately portray female journalists (The Week)

–Sarah Stierch Emerges as Wikipedia’s ‘Go-To Woman’ (Women’s eNews)

–Carolyn Ryan is named New York Times political editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Jennifer Forsyth is named Wall Street Journal US editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–The Pulitizer-Prize Winner As a Young Feminist (Ms. Blog) On Quiara Alegria Hudes

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.