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Women in journalism: Reading list 3/10/2013

March 10, 2013March 24, 2013Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

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 Make the News 2013: Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender (UNESCO)

–Writing about powerful women: The media should stop treating Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer as though they represent their whole gender (Columbia Journalism Review)

–VIDA COUNT 2012: MIC CHECK, REDUX (VIDA: Women in Literary Arts)

–2012 VIDA Byline Gender Parity Count Is Out and Depressing As Ever (Jezebel)

–Data on gender that will make you smile, not groan: What does it take to create a news organisation that publishes a diversity of women’s voices? Explore the data and find out the reasons for the Global Voices’ success at gender equality (Guardian)

–Dramatic Gender Difference in NPR Stories (Forbes)

–Powerful photo essay on domestic violence stirs backlash (Poynter)

–2013 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier (IWMF)

–Women’s Representation At Big Publications Is Actually Dropping (BuzzFeed)

–A Tale of Two Journalists (Women’s Media Center)

–CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future (Business Week)

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 7/29/2012

July 29, 2012August 8, 2012Jasmine R. LinabaryLeave a comment

Reading List

–Women Journalists In The Eye Of The Storm (AWID)

–Women Missing from Emmy Nominations (Women’s Media Center)

–Radio Gives Voice to India’s Transgender Community (Global Press Institute)

–Jessica Ghawi scholarship raises more than $30,000 in a day (Poynter)

–Debate over new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reveals divide between women in media and tech (Poynter)

–One Woman’s Quest to ‘Change the Ratio’ in Tech (Mashable)

–Silicon Valley Boot Camp Aims To Boost Diversity (NPR)

–Feminism 2.0: How Jessica Valenti is Changing the Conversation (Forbes)

–Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to Make TV History (XX Factor)

–Barbara Roessner named Hearst Connecticut Newspapers executive editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Newsweek/The Daily Beast Promotes Several Staffers (Fish Bowl NY) Chelsie Gosk promoted to senior director of digital strategy and audience development; Joyce Tang named deputy editor of Newsweek’s iPad and tablet editions

–Norah O’Donnell Replacing Erica Hill on ‘CBS This Morning’ (TV Newser)

“Media Darling” named CEO of Yahoo

July 23, 2012January 18, 2013Joy BaconLeave a comment

After thirteen years as an executive at Google, Marissa Mayer landed the much-anticipated role as the new CEO of Yahoo. And while many sites focused on her potential for the company, some focused on what they saw as a pitfall: her pregnancy.

At 37 years old, Mayer became one of the few CEOs of Fortune 500 companies under the age of 40, and one of only 18 women to hold the title. But after Tuesday’s announcement of her new title, some media noted she would be the first pregnant CEO. She announced her baby is due in October, around the same time her job performance will first be analyzed, according to NPR. (The public radio’s coverage of her appointment, reprinted from the Associated Press, mentions the pregnancy as almost an afterthought at the end of their predictions for the changes she’ll make to the Internet company.)

Some major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal don’t mention her pregnancy. But others, such as New York Magazine, the Huffington Post, news show Morning Joe, NBC News, and The Guardian ran coverage both commending and criticizing the role motherhood could potentially play in Mayer’s job evaluation. CNN’s coverage included her pregnancy in a list of other background information which included her gender and naming a former boyfriend.

A Washington Post blog commented that “what most people seem to agree on, of course, is that we wouldn’t being having this conversation if the name of the Yahoo CEO were Martin and not Marissa.” The post went on to note that “we are having the wrong dialogue again about women in the workplace. Women now often do society a triple service: They work, they bear children and they provide the key emotional bond. We ought to be figuring out how to help and celebrate them more.”

This is the Gender Report’s Week in Review, a weekly post that highlights some of the major stories related to gender issues this week. Some of these stories may have already appeared in our News Feed. We’ll at times include a longer analysis of stories as well as bring attention to stories that may have slipped through the cracks of the week’s news cycle.