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Women in journalism: Reading list 2/24/2013

February 24, 2013March 10, 2013Jasmine R. Linabary1 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

–Women’s Media Center Releases The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2013 (Women’s Media Center release)

–Report: New media no better than old media when it comes to women’s bylines (Poynter)

–Feminism and the Oscars: Do the 2013 Best Picture Nominees Pass the Bechdel Test? (The Opinioness of the World)

–Hollywood Pipeline: Still a Pipe Dream for Women? (Huffington Post)

–UNESCO Launches Women Make the News 2013 (UNESCO)

–Objectifying Reeva Steenkamp is No Way to Cover the Oscar Pistorius Case (The Broad Side)

–From women’s page to style section: Women still need a place to have a voice in the absence of mainstream media equality (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Sexual Harassment Plagues Nepalese Newsrooms (Global Press Institute)

–Women journalists make a mark (The Hindu)

–Conflict Transforms Syrian English Teacher Into War Photographer (NPR)

–Behind AP’s new ‘husband, wife’ guideline (Columbia Journalism Review)

-Hilary Mantel v Kate: a story of lazy journalism and raging hypocrisy (The Guardian)

–Robin Roberts Returns to ‘Good Morning America’ (New York Times’ Media Decoder)

–Soledad O’Brien to leave CNN morning show to produce specials for the network (Washington Post)

–Poynter.org loses Julie Moos to McClatchy (Washington 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.

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Byline Report: Week of 7/8/12 to 7/14/12

July 18, 2012July 25, 2012Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

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 2: July 8, 2012 – July 14, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 43.5%
  • Percent by men: 43.5%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 13%

iWatch News (The Center for Public Integrity)

  • Percent by women: 3.2%
  • Percent by men: 11.3%
  • Percent shared: 3.2%
  • Percent by other*: 82.3%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 24.7%
  • Percent by men: 62.5%
  • Percent shared:  7.5%
  • Percent by other*: 5.2%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 33.3%
  • Percent by men: 55.6%
  • Percent shared: 11.1%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 20%
  • Percent by men: 74.1%
  • Percent shared: 3.5%
  • Percent by other*: 2.4%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 34.4%
  • Percent by men: 63.9%
  • Percent shared: 1.6%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

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

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Byline Report: Week of 7/1/12 to 7/7/12

July 11, 2012July 18, 2012Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

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 1: July 1, 2012 – July 7, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 61.9%
  • Percent by men: 33.3%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 4.8%

iWatch News (The Center for Public Integrity)

  • Percent by women: 6.25%
  • Percent by men: 43.75%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 50%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 25.2%
  • Percent by men: 61.5%
  • Percent shared:  5.1%
  • Percent by other*: 8.1%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 57.1%
  • Percent by men: 42.9%
  • Percent shared: 9%
  • Percent by other*: 7%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 29.4%
  • Percent by men: 63.2%
  • Percent shared: 4.4%
  • Percent by other*: 2.9%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 26.2%
  • Percent by men: 69%
  • Percent shared: 4.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

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

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Wrap up: Findings from Round 2 of Gender Check project

July 8, 2012July 25, 2012Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

We began our Gender Check monitoring project in January 2011, aiming to monitor eight U.S. news websites weekly, two from each geographic region.

After the first year of our Gender Check project, women were 26 percent of sources in our sample of 354 articles. Additionally, women had 32.2 percent of bylines overall.

Starting in February 2012, we switched the websites we were monitoring with the intent to complete a second round of the project. Due to some changes in store for the Gender Report as well as some monitoring challenges, we decided to conclude this leg of the project after roughly four months.

Here’s a breakdown of our findings for that time period:

Round Two: Feb. 13, 2012– June 14, 2012

During these four months, we reviewed 100 articles, two in each Gender Check. After cleaning up the data, results from 95 articles are reported here.

The West (Los Angeles Times and California Watch) and Midwest (Chicago Tribune and Chicagoist) were monitored for the full 18-week period. Two articles from the Midwest were later discarded and one was missed as we reevaluated. That is because we’d originally started the project by monitoring the Chicago News Cooperative, which subsequently halted publication at the end of February. We then started monitoring the Chicagoist in its stead.

In addition, seven weeks of monitoring were completed for the Northeast (Boston.com and Open Media Boston) and South (Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Patch Buckhead). Seven weeks of Gender Checks from the Northeast were completed between Feb. 15 and April 11. For two of those weeks, Open Media Boston could not be monitored because the site had not been updated since the previous week. The South had seven Gender Checks between Feb. 13 and March 26.

While we felt it was important to wrap up our study and share what we found in the few months we’ve done of its second year, we’d like to remind our readers that these are very small sample sizes and therefore the data should be viewed with caution. Further research and time would be needed to verify any validity across the board.

For each Gender Check, we looked at two websites from that region — one connected with a newspaper and one that is online-only. We selected the top or lead articles on their websites at the time of the check and collect information on the author’s (or authors’) gender and the genders of the human sources referenced among other details. (For more on what Gender Checks are, read our introductory post here.)

Sources

The articles included in this sample contained 98 female sources and 243 male sources, making women 28.7 percent of human sources whose gender could be identified.

Thirty-nine of the articles we examined, or 41 percent, had only male sources. Seven articles had only female sources and 12 articles contained no sources.

Here’s how sourcing broke down by geographic region:

  • West: 140 males, 66 females (Women at 31 percent)
  • Midwest: 47 males, 16 females (Women at  25.4 percent)
  • Northeast: 25 males, 4 females (Women at 13.8 percent)
  • South: 31 males, 12 female (Women at 27.9 percent)

Additionally, we break down our findings by news sites associated with a traditional newspaper and those that are online only. Here are those results:

  • Newspaper website: 124 males, 43 females (Women at 25.7 percent)
  • Online-only: 119 males, 55 females (Women at 31.6 percent)

Authorship

In our sample, 23 articles were written by a woman and 62 by one or more man. Four articles had a shared byline between men and women. Six were by staff and/or a wire service. That meant women had 27.1 percent of bylines of one gender or another and 24.2 percent overall.

Here’s the break down of bylines by geographic region:

  • West: 9 by a woman, 24 by men, 3 by a man (or two) and woman
  • Midwest: 9 by a woman, 17 by a man, 1 by a man and two women, 6 by staff/wire service
  • Northeast: 2 by women, 10 by men
  • South: 3 by a woman, 11 by a man

Here’s how women compared in bylines between newspaper sites and online-only sites this month:

  • Newspaper website: 13 by a woman, 27 by men, 4 shared, 6 by staff/wire service
  • Online-only: 10 by a woman, 35 by a man

Review findings from the first year of the Gender Check project here. To look at other data on gender representations in online news, check out our “Findings and Statistics” category.

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Women in journalism: Reading list 6/10/2012

June 10, 2012Jasmine 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

–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.

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