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Women in journalism: Reading list for 11/10/2013

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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

–Women and the Internet: Part One: Online and offline violence towards women (Medium)

–Women’s issues in Arab media: finding a place, finding the words (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

–Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating (The Guardian)

–It’s a Man’s Phone: My female hands meant I couldn’t use my Google Nexus to document tear gas misuse (Medium)

–The gender ratio at many literary publications is shameful. But on Twitter, some of the most widely read critics are women (by Anna Holmes)

–Writing as Woman’s Work: The devaluation of “content” is bad for readers and for democracy (The Nation)

–Inside Iran: A Female Journalist Tells Her Story (ABC News) On Farideh Khoosha

–Capturing the truth in photojournalism one woman stands out (Women News Network) On Svetlana Bachevanova

–On Being a Woman Photographer With Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson (National Geographic)

–Sara Lewkowicz Wins College Photographer Of The Year (NPPA)

–Katherine Boo, investigative journalist, and Gail Collins, Op-Ed columnist, join Pulitzer Prize Board (Columbia News)

–Q&A: WNYC Contributing Editor, Beth Fertig (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.

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Women in journalism: Reading list 9/9/2012

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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

–Women’s representation in media: the best data on the subject to date (Guardian Data Blog)

-What’s Changed, and What Hasn’t, Since the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses (XX Factor)

–40 Years Later, Newsweek Sex Discrimination Persists (Women’s eNews) An excerpt from “The Good Girls Revolt”

–Reporting from the Front Lines of War: Kathy Gannon and Anja Niedringhaus (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–What’s in a name? The rhetoric of rape (Women Under Siege)

–Chicago Sun-Times pursues politician who dares to be a mom (by Erik Wemple)

–Women, Women, Everywhere — but Not Much About Their Paychecks (by Margaret Sullivan)

–Announcing Our Ending Violence Against Women Digital Action Campaign (World Pulse)

–Global Press Institute Founder Wins $100,000 Social Justice Innovation Prize (GPI)

–Margaret Sullivan: ‘It’s not about me handing down pronouncements’ (Poynter)

–Iranian activist [and journalist] Zhila Bani-Yaghoub packs her bags and heads to prison (Guardian)

–Reporting Poverty: Emily Brennan interviews Katherine Boo (Guernica)

–Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: ‘I don’t scare easily’ (Guardian)

–New Editor at Cosmopolitan: Joanna Coles Replaces Kate White (Media Decoder)

–Charlize Theron, Thunder Road to Produce Film About Slain War Reporter [Marie Colvin] (Hollywood Reporter)

–So What Do You Do, Jessica Bennett, Executive Editor of Tumblr’s Storyboard? (Mediabistro)

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 7/8/2012

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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

–The sixth W: Who, what, when, where, why—and women. A bow to those who helped close the media gender gap, and a cheer for leaders of the future (Columbia Journalism Review) – This is a cover story package on women and journalism that included a cover image paying homage to a 1970 Newsweek cover. See related stories including those about 20 women to watch, 40 women who changed the media business, and the reporting of Katherine Boo.

–Who Narrate the World? The OpEd Project 2012 Byline Report (full) (The OpEd Project)

–Gender Gap Update (4th Estate)

–Leaving Abuse Behind (New York Times Lens Blog)

 –Women Win Facebook, Twitter, Zynga; Men Get LinkedIn, Reddit [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

–End the assault on female and local journalists (David Rhode on Reuters)

–Knight News Innovation Laboratory Names (Miranda Mulligan) Executive Director  (Editor & Publisher)

–CPJ concerned about arrest of Mexican journalist (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Blogger harassed, briefly detained by police in Vietnam (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–The Late Marie Colvin: “I Feel Like I Am the Last Reporter in the YouTube World” (Vanity Fair)

–Washington Post’s Amanda Zamora joins ProPublica (JimRomenesko.com)

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 2/13/12

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The Gender Report is now providing 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.

-REPORT: By A Nearly 2 To 1 Margin, Cable Networks Call On Men Over Women To Comment On Birth Control (Think Progress)

-Four Tips for Male Journalists Who Want to Discuss Women’s Health (Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress)

-Sunday Shows Overwhelmingly White And Male: Study (Huffington Post – Media)

-A Painterly World Press Photo Winner: “We seldom see veiled women in this way, at such an intimate moment.” (Lens – New York Times photo blog)

-BBC ‘got it wrong on women’ (The Guardian)

-The grammar of assault: Salisbury paper learns why ‘performing a sex act’ misrepresents the crime (Poynter)

-Cal Thomas Apologizes To Rachel Maddow For Contraception Comment (Huffington Post – Media)

-In the New York Times, Sheryl Sandberg Is Lucky, Men Are Good (Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic)

-Finding ‘Life, Death And Hope’ In A Mumbai Slum: Interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo (NPR’s Fresh Air)

-When did The New York Times first get…[a woman reporter with a desk in the newsroom]? (Poynter)

-What it’s like to cover ‘unbearable’ stories of rape in Congo (by Lynsey Addario for Women Under Siege, a project to document sexualized violence in conflict. The project’s website launched this week.)

-From darkness, dignity: Why sexualized violence must move from the shadows (by Lara Logan for Women Under Siege)

-$20K grants available for female-driven digital journalism start-ups (10,000 Words)

-Help PhD research into women in journalism (Journalism.co.uk)

Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. 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.