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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 9/8/2013

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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

–10 Women to Watch (Editor & Publisher)

–Software seeks to measure women’s participation in journalism (Poynter)

–Girls Tweeting (Not Twerking) Their Way to Power (New York Times)

–Why Female Journalists in India Still Can’t Have It All (India Ink, New York Times)

–“Escape from Taliban” author Sushmita Banerjee shot dead in Afghanistan (Reuters)

–More Women Were Working In TV During 2012-13 Season Than Ever Before: Study (Deadline)

–How Do Women and Men Use Social Media Differently? [INFOGRAPHIC] (Social Media Today)

–First female ‘Life’ editor Judith Glassman Daniels dies at 74 (Entertainment Weekly)

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 8/25/2013

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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 there’s no female Nate Silver (Salon)

–Men, women, and media empire-building (by Ann Friedman)

–The women’s pages: The upsides and downsides of starting your career in gender-specific digital media (Columbia Journalism Review) Also by Ann Friedman

–Police say female photographer, 23, gang-raped in Mumbai (CNN)

–The IWMF Launches Global Survey On Dangers For Women In News (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Editor Tries to Mansplain Gender Disparity, Fails Miserably (The Atlantic Wire)

–Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg aren’t the only fierce women in tech (Venture Beat)

–Can These Students Fix Wikipedia’s Lady Problem? (Mother Jones)

–Women Contributors Still Face Hurdles at Wikipedia (WSJ)

–How two young journalists are highlighting longform journalism written by women (Poynter)

–Young female journalists: here’s your opportunity to shine (The Telegraph)

–The 100 Best Websites For Women, 2013 (Forbes)

–Q&A: Aerogram Founder, Lakshmi Gandhi (ReportHers)

–A Q&A With Jill Abramson: The Times’ top editor on mean bosses, liberal biases, and the demise of the Washington Post (New Republic)

–Lauren Ashburn Joins Fox News (Huffington Post)

–Why is Chrystia Freeland leaving journalism to run for office? (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.