Women in journalism: Reading list 4/22/12

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

If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Republican White Men (Think Progress)

Happy 8th Birthday to Feministing! (Feministing)

‘Boys On The Bus’: 40 Years Later, Many Are Girls (NPR)

Where Are the Women Writers? ASME Chief Responds (Mother Jones)

What’s With Magazine Journalism and Women? (The Atlantic Wire)

IWMF Announces 2012 Winners of Women Entrepreneurs in Digital News Frontier Grants (IWMF)

Hillary’s Hair: More newsworthy than the Summit of the Americas? (WIMN’s Voices)

Study: Readers value extra editing, women especially (Poynter)

MaryAnne Golon named Washington Post’s new director of photography (Poynter)

PulseWire Member Naglaa Seed Ahmed Brutally Beaten by Sudanese Forces (World Pulse)

Lost in a life outside Syria (Women Under Siege) – About photojournalist Matilde Gattoni

A 1973 ‘gal’ sports reporter looks back at the era’s journalistic hurdles (Chicago Tribune)

Sara Ganim, 24, wins Pulitzer for coverage of Penn State sex abuse scandal (Poynter)

McGill medal winner shares stories of courage with students (Red and Black)

Joye Patterson remembered as innovator in the field of science journalism at MU  (Missourian)

Christiane Amanpour: ‘There’s still so much prejudice out there’ (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.

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