The Gender Report provides a regular round-up of links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links below are to recent noteworthy articles on topics related to women in journalism, media and technology, as well as articles related to the intersections of gender, race, class, nationality, ability, and sexual orientation and the media. Continue reading
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Women in journalism: Reading list for 9/22/2013
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.
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Women in journalism: Reading list for 6/23/2013
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
–#WomenEdsWeLove creator: Female editors ‘are not invisible’ & ‘they’re not that hard to find’ (Poynter)
–Robbie Myers: Yes, Women’s Magazines Can Do Serious Journalism. In Fact, We’ve Been Doing It For A While (ELLE Magazine)
–Here’s Why Women’s Magazines Don’t Produce “Serious” Journalism (XX Factor)
–The WiCi Awards: Recognizing Women Changing Communications (Mashable)
–Male Fox News guest to female Democratic consultant: “Know your role and shut your mouth” (Salon)
–Why Trolling is Worse For Feminist Writers (Policy Mic)
–At The Movies, The Women Are Gone (NPR)
–Gloria Steinem on Digital as a Medium for Women’s Stories (Huffington Post)
–Editor loses her home in fire, but it doesn’t stop the presses (The Gazette)
–Ex-LAT editor Sallie Hofmeister signs on with Sitrick (LA Observed)
–MSNBC.com adds Irin Carmon, others (JimRomenesko.com)
–The Sun launches internship named for former newsroom leader Mary J. Corey (Baltimore Sun)
–She’s Not Just Destined For Greatness, She’s Destined To Do Great Things For Women (Upworthy)
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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