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Women in journalism: Reading list for 7/7/2013

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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

–Men, for the most part, still run newsrooms (Pew Researcher Center Fact Tank)

–Journalism safety: INSI to offer training to female reporters in Egypt (Journalism.co.uk)

–Female Foreign Journalist Gang-Raped in Horrific Tahrir Square Attack (Jezebel)

–Egypt’s Plague of Sex Attacks (The Daily Beast)

–Media boys’ club can’t afford to ignore women (The Globe and Mail)

–UN Women Partners with Geena Davis on First-ever Global Gender in Film Research Study (UN Women press release)

–Three Women Serve on the Supreme Court, and the New York Times Is on It (XX Factor)

–Let’s get visual? On Pink tennis shoes. Pink stilettos. Purse boys. Pantsuit aficionados. (by Lindsey Meeks)

–Woman’s work: The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Q&A: Liberian Journo, Melissa Chea-Annan (ReportHers)

–Monday Q&A: Denise Malan on the new data-driven collaboration between INN and IRE (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren is staying, but Megyn Kelly moving to prime time (Poynter)

–Amy Chozick to cover the Clintons for New York Times (JimRomenesko.com)

–Soledad O’Brien Joins Al Jazeera America (The Wrap)

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 3/10/2013

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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 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 2/24/2013

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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’s Media Center Releases The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2013 (Women’s Media Center release)

–Report: New media no better than old media when it comes to women’s bylines (Poynter)

–Feminism and the Oscars: Do the 2013 Best Picture Nominees Pass the Bechdel Test? (The Opinioness of the World)

–Hollywood Pipeline: Still a Pipe Dream for Women? (Huffington Post)

–UNESCO Launches Women Make the News 2013 (UNESCO)

–Objectifying Reeva Steenkamp is No Way to Cover the Oscar Pistorius Case (The Broad Side)

–From women’s page to style section: Women still need a place to have a voice in the absence of mainstream media equality (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Sexual Harassment Plagues Nepalese Newsrooms (Global Press Institute)

–Women journalists make a mark (The Hindu)

–Conflict Transforms Syrian English Teacher Into War Photographer (NPR)

–Behind AP’s new ‘husband, wife’ guideline (Columbia Journalism Review)

-Hilary Mantel v Kate: a story of lazy journalism and raging hypocrisy (The Guardian)

–Robin Roberts Returns to ‘Good Morning America’ (New York Times’ Media Decoder)

–Soledad O’Brien to leave CNN morning show to produce specials for the network (Washington Post)

–Poynter.org loses Julie Moos to McClatchy (Washington 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 2/3/2013

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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, News, and the Internet: (Almost) Everything We Know (by J. Nathan Matias)

–Covering rape responsibly (Women Under Siege)

–Germany in Uproar over Political Profile that Calls Out Sexism (Bitch Magazine)

–Reel Girl’s Gallery of Girls Gone Missing From Children’s Movies in 2013 (Reel Girl)

–Women Shooting on the Front Lines: Lynsey Addario’s Photographs of Women in Combat (New York Times’ Lens Blog)

–How bad is sexism in newsrooms? (Daily Life)

–IWMF names new Executive Director, new Board Members (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Jessica Lustig named Village Voice deputy editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Elizabeth Spiers Now Editorial Director at Flavorpill.com (New York Observer)

–CNN may replace Soledad O’Brien’s ‘Starting Point’ with new morning show (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 9/23/2012

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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

–Opinion: Why do women still lag in journalism? (by Susan Antilla)

–Moroccan Women in Journalism (Global Girl Media)

–Poll: College women get election news from the paper, though they’d rather not (Poynter)

–Women Created More Television Last Year, But Is It a Durable Sign of Progress? (ThinkProgress)

–Why was a rape victim’s blog mentioned and quoted from in a story on a rape in Central Park, allowing readers to identify the woman? (Answer from Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times)

-Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue’s Edith Wharton Spread? (Slate)

–Behind ‘The Good Girls Revolt’: The ‘Newsweek’ Lawsuit That Paved the Way for Women Writers (Daily Beast)

–Women who set world media trends (The Media Reporter)

–MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry tops the ‘Root 100′ list (Poynter)

–A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (Book by journalist Samar Yazbek)

–Islamist militants seize and rename radio station in Mali (Committee to Project Journalists) Staff ordered to “to replace a female editor, Fatoumata Abdou, with a man”

–A Reaction To The Backlash Against Mindy Kaling (Racialicious)

–Alex Pham leaves Los Angeles Times for a job that gives her more flexibility (JimRomenesko.com)

–Feature writer Sheila McClear leaves the ‘New York Post’ (Capital New York)

–Mexican photojournalist Claudia Guadarrama documents the trauma of migration (Women News Network)

–How Soledad O’Brien prepared for that contentious John Sununu interview (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.