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Women in journalism: Reading list 10/21/2012

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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

–Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai can stand, communicate, hospital says (CNN)

–Sonia Dridi, Cairo Reporter, ‘Savagely Attacked’: France 24 TV (AP)

–Study: Women no longer need exceptional qualifications to win Pulitzers, but… (Poynter)

–Talk to the Times: Questions for Jill Abramson, Executive Editor (New York Times)

–Wilhelmina Model Robyn Lawley On Twitter’s Shameful Candy Crowley Attacks (Daily Beast)

–Teen who petitioned for female debate moderator: ‘No one — man or woman — could have done it better’ (Poynter)

–Good Girls Don’t: After suing Newsweek for sex discrimination, some women ran up against their own timidity (Nieman Reports)

–Sexist stereotypes dominate front pages of British newspapers, research finds (Guardian)

–Why does this shocking dearth of women in the media persist? (Guardian)

–Twitter Seeks Woman for Its All-Male Board [REPORT] (Mashable)

–One month in, Margaret Sullivan talks about the changing role of New York Times Public Editor (Poynter)

–So What Do You Do, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC Host and Tulane University Professor? (Mediabistro)

–Penske Puts a Woman in Charge at Variety (Fishbowl LA) Michelle Sobrino-Stearns named first-ever female publisher.

–Kristina O’Neill named editor of WSJ. Magazine (JimRomenesko.com)

–Why Heidi N. Moore is leaving ‘Marketplace’ for the Guardian (Poynter)

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 8/26/2012

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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

–Every Woman’s Story Counts — Including Yours (Huffington Post)

–Minority employment up in TV and radio, widening gap with print (Poynter)

–Women’s Media Center To Launch Live Talk Radio Show (Women’s Media Center)

–Abramson 5th on Forbes ‘Power Women’ list (Politico)

–Japanese Journalist’s Final Report From Syria Is Released After Her Death (NY Times The Lede) On the passing of Mika Yamamoto

–Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway (NY Times Lens Blog)

–Angelina Jolie gave NBC an Ann Curry ultimatum? (SheKnows)

–Megan Garvey named assistant managing editor, digital (LA Times)

–In internet time, two months = nearly eight years (by Staci Kramer at paidContent)

–Spiers’ last issue of ‘The New York Observer’ (Capital New York)

–Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily (Politico) On Andrea Seabrook

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 3/18/12

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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

–Zimbabwe’s Female Journalists Get U.S. Backing to Promote Equity in The Newsrooms (Voice of America)

–Female journalists offer students insights (The National) – a panel discussion as part of the Women as Global Leaders conference hosted by Zayed University

–#jpod – Gender and conflict journalism: How far have we come? (Journalism.co.uk)

–Scripps Howard Awards announced (Poynter)

–Her Rightful Place (Insider Higher Ed) – female philosophers and the New York Times’ obits

–Reporting on conflict: ‘No-brainer that women are out there’ (Journalism.co.uk)

–Are Book Publishers To Blame For Gender Discrimination? (Huffington Post)

–Future of Feminism: No More Media Sexualization of Women (Ms. Blog)

–Alice C. Steinbach, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78 (Baltimore Sun)

–In Liberia, reporting on genital mutilation draws threats (CPJ)

–Liberia: IFJ Calls On Govt to Protect Threatened Female Journalist (AllAfrica)

–Azerbaijan journalist ‘blackmailed’ with explicit video (The New Age)

–Man arrested in connection to assault on journalist (INSI)

–Marie Colvin: Mourners say farewell to ‘talented, compassionate’ war reporter (The Guardian)

–Jill Abramson on the NYT as local vs. international paper: ‘We can have it all’ (Poynter)

–‘WSJ’ hires away ‘New York Times’ social media editor Liz Heron (Capital New York)

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 3/11/12

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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

–Safety of women journalists on the frontline highlighted in new book (The Guardian) – For more related links, see our post on “No Woman’s Land”

–A Byline Count for the Next Generation: How Diverse Are the Blogs and Magazines Most Millennials Read? (GOOD)

–Twenty inspirational women journalists: A list of inspiring female journalists to mark International Women’s Day (Journalism.co.uk)

–International Women’s Day: Remembering the Murdered Women Writers of Mexico (Huffington Post UK)

–How Journalists Can Celebrate Women’s Day (10,000 Words)

–UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2012 (Press release)

–The Daily Beast’s ‘150 Fearless Women’ List Features Media Figures (Huffington Post Media)

–$56,000 Awarded to Four Women-Led News Projects (McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs)

–Naked ambition: Bild drops Page One Girl in bid for women readers (The Guardian)

–Nielsen: Women make up the majority of bloggers (ZDNet)

–Women underrepresented in tech jobs (Poynter)

–Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines (Columbia Journalism Review)

–How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists (Newsweek)

–In journalism, these women paved the way (Montreal Gazette)

–2012 Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Mexican Journalist Anabel Hernández (WAN-IFRA)

–TV Anchor Sue Simmons Is Being Dropped by WNBC (New York Times)

-WIW12: As Journalists Become Targets, the Need to ‘Bear Witness’ Continues (Conversation with Lynsey Addario at WIW12 via The Daily Beast)

-WIW12: New York Times’ Jill Abramson: “In our newsroom, nearly 40 percent of senior editors and managers are women, and then, of course, there’s me.” (Panel discussion at WIW12 via The Daily Beast

We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport@gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.

Looking back: Top posts of the year

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This month marks a year since we founded The Gender Report. We’re taking a brief pause from our regular content this week while we gear up for our week-long celebration starting Jan. 29, in which we’ll share findings and commentary from our year-long studies and projects. In the meantime, review what we’ve been up to for the past 12 months by checking out the top five most read posts from our first year.

1. Where are the women in the Romenesko discussion?

Our most read post this year came in November 2011, when journalism industry icon Jim Romenesko resigned. We looked at the gender breakdown of those commenting on, discussing or writing about this announcement and the preceding allegations by the Poynter Institute.

2. Women breaking journalism’s glass ceiling: The ascent of Jill Abramson and others

This Week in Review from June 2011 highlighted women who were moving up the ranks in journalism. This included the announcement that Jill Abramson would be the new executive editor of The New York Times, the first woman to fill that spot in the paper’s 160-year history.

3. Week in Review: Women journalists in the news

The No. 3 post was a Week in Review from December 2011 in which we provided a round-up of stories about women in journalism ranging from the treatment of female journalists abroad to recent studies and discussions about women in newsroom leadership.

4. New study: Women hold less than one-third of top news media jobs

Our write-up on the International Women’s Media Foundation’s “The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media” was our fourth most popular post. The study, which looked at more than 500 companies in nearly 60 countries, was released in March 2011.

5. Examining gender representations in the New Media Index

The introduction of our year-long study monitoring articles in the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index was our fifth most read post. This write-up included findings from the first four months of the study. Final results on the full year of this project will be released next week.