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Women in journalism: Reading list for 2/23/2014

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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 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 Report Finds Women Still Underrepresented, Misrepresented in U.S. Media (WMC press release) Find links to other articles about the report in our related post here: Studying women’s representation in digital media: The challenges and limitations

–Finding the Courage to Cover Sexual Violence (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Film, TV industry’s diversity doesn’t look like America’s, report says (LA Times) On the “Hollywood Diversity Report”

–Sahar Speaks: Reporting by Afghan women (John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships)

–On Campaign Trail, Missteps on Gender (by Margaret Sullivan, New York Times public editor)

–Facebook Just Created 50 New Gender Options For Users to Choose From (PolicyMic)

–Men In Silicon Valley With Graduate Degrees Make 73 Percent More Than Female Peers (Think Progress)

–The Year I Didn’t Retweet Men: Being mindful about whose voices I amplify (Medium)

–LeanIn.org and Getty Aim to Change Women’s Portrayal in Stock Photos (New York Times)

–For Online Equity We Need Our Net Neutrality Back (Women’s eNews)

–Nina Totenberg: What It Was Like To Be the Only Woman In the Newsroom (Medium)

–Washington Post names Alison Coglianese new reader representative (Poynter)

–Slate Writer Amanda Hess Wins Sidney Award for Examining Online Sexism (10,000 Words)

–Meredith Vieira to Become First Woman to Host Olympics Primetime Show Solo (Variety)

*Note: Due to the author’s travel, this week’s list contains noteworthy links from the past two weeks. No Reading List was posted for the week of 2/16/2013.

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.

Studying women’s representation in digital media: The challenges and limitations

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As we well know, and as the recent Status of Women in the U.S. Media report from the Women’s Media Center illustrates, women have long been underrepresented and misrepresented in traditional media and entertainment.WMCReport2014

Yet, little is still known about how that translates digitally. Continue reading →

Women in journalism: Reading list for 2/2/2014

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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 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.

Online Feminism

An article in The Nation related to online feminism sparked a lot of discussion this week. Here is a link to the original piece as well as some of the responses. For additional responses, be sure to check out the hashtags #IStandWithKarnythia & #femfuture on Twitter.

–Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars (The Nation)

–Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression (Prison Culture)

–Why The Problem Of Online Toxicity Is Not The Same Thing As White Feminists vs. Non-White Feminists (HuffPost Women)

–Is “Toxic” Online Culture Paralyzing Feminism? (XX Factor)

General Reading List

–REPORT: Gender Diversity On The 2013 Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows (Media Matters for America)

–Women Are the Dominant Media Voice During the Super Bowl: Ignore our tweets at your own peril (AdWeek)

–Gender Inertia in Hollywood (Women’s Media Center)

–Meet Foreign Policy Interrupted (Council on Foreign Policy)

–Female Journalists: “Leave My Body Out Of It” (The Op-Ed Project’s Byline Blog)

–Painting Wendy Davis as a bad mother is political sexism at its worst (The Guardian)

–An Epic Feminist Edit-a-Thon Takes Aim at Wikipedia’s Gender Gap (Bitch Media)

–13-Year-Old Blogger: I Promise Girls Will Change the World (Mashable)

–A Pioneer of Street Photography Leaves Behind Strong Images of Indian Women (New York Times)

–She Was Harassed By A Games Reporter. Now She’s Speaking Out. (Kotaku)

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 1/26/2014

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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 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

–Transgender People Are Paying The Price For The Media’s Willful Ignorance (BuzzFeed)

–Women and Media: The Good, Bad and [Very] Ugly (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

–On Media – Or, Why Isn’t There a Jezebel/Hairpin for WOC (Racialicious)

–Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not? (New York Times)

–How Not to Report on Sex Trafficking (RH Reality Check)

–Let’s Face It: the Web Is a Worse Place for Women Than It Is for Men (Vice)

–Tennis Player Eugenie Bouchard Has Best Match of Her Career, Gets Asked About Her Celebrity Crush Instead (PolicyMic)

–Geeking Out: Uganda’s Women are Creating the Next Generation of Girl Geeks (Daily Beast)

–Cate Blanchett Calls Out Red Carpet Camera, Asking “Do You Do This To the Guys?” (PolicyMic)

–Debate on Photo Retouching Flares Online, With Roles Reversed (New York Times)

–Vivek Wadhwa: Keeping Women in the Tech Workforce (Wall Street Journal)

–Trouble On Our Doorstep: Female journalists cover death and life in Mexico’s drug war (Quill) – From December but worth the read

–New York Times names Molly Wood deputy tech editor (Capital New York)

–CNN to Sign Sally Kohn as Contributor (TV Newser)

–Building a Digital Legacy: Q&A with The Atlantic’s Kimberly Lau (Sparksheet)

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 1/12/2014

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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 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 Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet (by Amanda Hess) Related: When Misogynist Trolls Make Journalism Miserable for Women (The Atlantic) and Let’s Be Real: Online Harassment Isn’t ‘Virtual’ For Women (Talking Points Memo)

–A Man Is Facing Jail for Harassing Women Online, and It’s a Big Deal (Jezebel)

–Tech women are busy building their own networks (Washington Post)

–One woman in list of top Twitter influencers over 50 (Telegraph)

–TV presenter sacked for swearing at studio colleague live on air after he called her a ‘f****** big w****’ through her earpiece (Daily Mail)

–In the media, a CEO remains a lady first (The Globe and Mail)

–Only Two of the 100 Top-Grossing Movies of the Year Were Directed by Women (The Mary Sue)

–The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead (by Margaret Sullivan) On Jill Abramson

–Sasheer Zamata Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ As New Cast Member (Deadline)

–Written Off: Jennifer Weiner’s quest for literary respect (The New Yorker)

–Kathryn ‘Kitty’ Broman, TV pioneer, dies at age 97 in Longmeadow (Mass Live)

–Katharine Whitehorn: I think I’ve earned a gong this time (The Guardian)

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.