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Women in journalism: Reading list for 8/10/2014

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The Gender Report provides a regular round-up of links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links below are to recent noteworthy articles on topics related to women in journalism, media and technology, as well as articles related to the intersections of gender, race, class, nationality, ability, and sexual orientation and the media. Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. View past round-ups here.

Reading List

–8 Trailblazing Women Journalists You Have Probably Never Heard Of (BuzzFeed – IWMF)

–Women News Managers Reflect on Leadership Styles in a Changing Industry (American Journalism Review)

–Op-Ed: All the News Fit for White Men: Why Journalism is Failing America (The Feminist Wire)

–ASNE releases 2014 newsroom census results: Minoritites in newsrooms increase; 63 percent of newspapers have at least one woman among top-three editors (American Society of News Editors) Women were 37.2% of journalists overall

–Iran is world’s leading jailer of female journalists and netizens (Reporters without Borders)

–Truthdig Gives Women in War Zones a Global Voice (The Freelancer)

–For women on the Internet, it doesn’t get better (Daily Dot)

–Twitter Admits It Hires Too Many White And Asian Men (HuffPost Tech)

–Women, minorities make newsroom gains: Numbers approach record levels (Radio Television Digital News Association)

–Who Gets to Speak on Cable News?: The identity of the whitest, malest show we found may surprise you (FAIR Extra!)

–Pushing for parity: Women not always allowed to participate (Radio Television Digital News Association)

–What it’s really like to be a woman at a tech conference (Quartz)

–TV’s First All-Female Sports Talk Show Is Coming This Fall (Mashable)

–What does diversity look like? On TV this fall, we will find out (Washington Post)

–Game of Thrones To Return For Season 5 With All Male Writers, Directors (The Mary Sue)

–Feminist Times ‘put on ice’ after failure of crowdfunding (Guardian)

–Jill Abramson: “I’m Not Ashamed of Getting Fired” (Cosmopolitan)

–Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? (New York Magazine)

–(Video) Kara Swisher On The Next Internet (BlogHer)

–Julia Turner Is Named Editor in Chief of Slate (New York Times)

–Margaret Low Smith leaves NPR for The Atlantic (Poynter)

–Gawker hires NYT’s Leah Finnegan, who ‘hates the right people’ (Poynter)

–Margot Adler, An NPR Journalist For Three Decades, Dies (NPR)

Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpufCall
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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 2/26/12

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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.

In Memory: Marie Colvin

Award-winning foreign correspondent Marie Colvin died in Syria this week alongside photojournalist Remi Ochlik. Colvin was remembered in numerous tributes across the web. Here are just a few:

–The Risks of Bearing Witness: Discussing Marie Colvin’s Legacy (New York Magazine)

–Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images (Op-ed by Hannah Storm on CNN)

–Marie Colvin: The death of a role model (by Helena Williams for the Press Gazette)

–Profile: Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent (Reuters)

–Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik killed in Syria: Their last work and words (Washington Post)

–Marie Colvin killed in Homs: tributes to Sunday Times journalist (Telegraph) – A round-up of statement about her death

–Great Female Journalists (Independent) – A gallery of nine women starting with Colvin

General interest links

–FishbowlDC’s Rothstein criticized for accusing female journalists of going for ‘the sexpot look’ (Poynter) – Includes a round-up of other articles related to the incident

–More Discussion but Few Changes on Sexual Violence (by Lauren Wolfe as part of the Committee to Project Journalists’ Attacks on the Press in 2011)

–Boys’ Clubhouse: Why Women Should Write About Sports (GOOD)

–How many times has Elizabeth Warren been called darling? (Name It Change It)

–On #dailywife and writing for the “women’s pages” (by Rachel Hills)

–How To Be a Feminist in the Sports Culture Boys’ Club (If You Want To) (Women, Action & the Media)

–Telling Stories in Contemporary Spain: A Survey of Women Writing Literary Journalism (World Literature Today)

–Has confessional journalism gone too far? Yvonne Roberts and Lucy Cavendish discuss (The Guardian)

–Coming clean on sex pests in the newsroom (The Australian)

–How ‘Grammar Girl’ turned a single hobby podcast into a growing media network (Nieman Lab)

–Margaret Low Smith to head NPR News (Poynter)

–Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC gives new face to cable news (by Anna Holmes on the Washington Post)

–‘Trailblazer’ Belva Davis to Retire From KQED After Presidential Election (TVSpy)

–Interview: Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan, on how sex sells (The Guardian)

–Safe at home: A feature on Lara Logan (New York Times Style Magazine)

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.