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Women in journalism: Reading list 1/13/2013

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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

–VOCO’s Sexist Ad Demonstrates That the Tech Industry Badly Needs Women (Daily Beast)

–Where have all the women political journalists gone? (The Telegraph)

–Obama Should Nominate Female FCC Chair: Women’s Media Center Petition (Huffington Post)

–ESPN Announcers teach that girls are trophies – UPDATED (Viva La Feminista)

–A Newsweek intern and the creepy editor (JimRomenesko.com)

-This Rape Infographic Is Going Viral. Too Bad It’s Wrong. (XX Factor)

– Growing gender disparity in Tanzania newsrooms (Media and Gender)

–Ada Louise Huxtable, Champion of Livable Architecture, Dies at 91 (New York Times)

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Women in journalism: Reading list 12/9/2012

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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

–Five things about women in the press (BBC)

–7 Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen (Mother Jones)

–Study Finding We Are Done with Gender Bias Omits Important Data (BlogHer)

–Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later (Washington Post) – Betty McIntosh’s report

–The 9 Most Scrutinized Uteri In Recent History — Other Than Kate Middleton’s (Huffington Post)

–Opinion: Every Mistress Needs Someone to Play Sugar Daddy (Bloomberg)

–Extra: Beers with the gals: Jill Abramson on women in journalism (Current)

–MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Nominated For Grammy Award (Mediaite)

–Elisabeth Murdoch, Matriarch of a Journalism Family, Dies at 103 (New York Times)

–Monica Yant Kinney: “The Newspaper Industry Is Getting Smaller” (Philly Post)

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 12/2/2012

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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 groups demand new watchdog to confront sexism in the media (Guardian)

–The Online Culture of ‘Niceness’ Doesn’t Extend to the Ladies (Jezebel)

–Women in Gaming Tweet About Sexist Industry With #1reasonwhy (Mashable)

–Gay at the Times: A lot has changed at the Gray Lady since the early ’90s (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Why Washington Post journalist first wrote about her rape, 28 years later (Poynter)

–Enslaved as a child, a young woman gives voice to the horrors of human trafficking with a breakthrough radio show (Newsweek)

–“I’m the other Tina Brown” – the one who isn’t leading a glamorous life (JimRomenesko.com)

–The colorful evolution of newswomen’s attire (Washington Post)

–Mandy Stadtmiller advises student journalists to exploit their youth (JimRomenesko.com)

–Montgomery Advertiser announces retirement of Executive Editor Wanda Lloyd (Montgomery Advertiser)

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 11/18/2012

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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 media’s woman blaming (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Can Paula Broadwell Reclaim Her Story? (Ms Magazine)

–Everything You Need to Know About the Media’s Coverage of the Petraeus Sex Scandal (Hint: It’s Sexist) (Bitch Media)

–Petraeus Affair Perpetuates Stereotype of Female Journalists (Daily Beast)

–Women’s Groups Press BBC on Savile Sex Scandal (Women’s eNews)

–Nancy Pelosi Fires Back at Luke Russert’s Ageist and Sexist Question (BlogHer)

–Business Insider Wonders: Are Women Too Lazy to Succeed at Goldman Sachs? (Gawker)

–Businessweek ranks schools on girls’ hotness (Daily Dot)

–GLAAD: Cincinnati Fox news anchor on Facebook called Rachel Maddow an ‘angry young man’ (Miami Herald)

–Virginia Moseley Leaves ABC After 18 Years, Joins CNN as VP/Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington (TV Newser)

–Geneva Overholser to leave post at Annenberg School of Journalism (Poynter)

–Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim leaves Patriot-News to join CNN (Poynter)

–How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed – then failed to profit from its sale (JimRomenesko.com)

–Tuesday Q&A: Tumblr editor Jessica Bennett on new platforms for news and the rise of the GIF (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Call for Applications: 2013 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier Grant Program (International Women’s Media Foundation)

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 11/11/2012

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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

–And the award for sexist pig goes to…Feminist media watchdogs gave out awards for sexist campaign coverage (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Ladies Be Publishing: Women Dominate NaNoWriMo (Jezebel)

–Sudanese journalist [Somaya Ibrahim Ismail Hundosa] found after being abducted, tortured (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Megyn Kelly Can Save Fox News (The New Republic)

–NABJ Member Sarah Hoye To Receive The Women’s Media Center’s Carol Jenkins Award (NABJ)

–After four years overseeing “Morning Edition,” Madhulika Sikka will soon be directing NPR’s news operations (American Journalism Review)

–WSJ’s Liz Heron Seeks Expanded Audience Through Social Media (Contently)

–Times Public Editor Margaret ‘The Slugger’ Sullivan Comes Out Swinging (New York Observer)

–Q&A: Caitlin Moran tells it like it is (Columbia Journalism Review)

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.