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Women in journalism: Reading list for 9/14/2014
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
On Journalism:
–Where Are the Women? Why we need more female newsroom leaders (Nieman Reports)
–Why Disruptors Are Always White Guys (New York Mag)
–Hacker destroys International Women’s Media Foundation website (OneWorld News)
–Jezebel staffers wanted to ‘light a fire under management’s collective ass’ (Poynter)
–Doing feminist journalism is hard. It’s time publishers invested in protecting their staff. (Washington Post)
–Why I’ve Stopped Reading Twitter Mentions (Slate)
–Giving female journalists a voice in developing nations: Zubeida Mustafa helps illuminate the lives of women in Pakistan (Columbia Journalism Review)
–Why Don’t African Women Write Their Stories? (The WIP)
–Women’s eNews crowdfunds project on domestic abuse (Journalism.co.uk)
–Best of Q: Is sports journalism a man’s game? (CBC Radio)
On Technology
–Closing the High-Tech Gender Gap (MIT Technology Review)
–Managers Tell Women in Tech They Are “Abrasive” and Need to “Step Back” to “Let Others Shine” (Slate)
–Startup that places women in tech jobs plans journalism vertical (Poynter)
–Network wants to see more women in tech startups (DW)
–Building women media entrepreneurs (The Media Online)
–For Facebook, access to women’s rights information is a basic one (Fortune)
–What If Men Weren’t Allowed on Facebook? On Women.com (Slate)
On Film/TV
–From Now On, Women Save the World: Hollywood Has Realized That Movies Starring Women Can Make Money (New York Times)
–Flipping the Script: Female directors (New York Times Style Magazine)
–#AskHerMore Calls Out The Questions We Wish Reporters Would Ask Women at the Emmys (Mic)
Interviews and features
–Digital divas: Meet our women media leaders of tomorrow (The media online)
–The 60-second interview: Elizabeth Spiers, editorial director, Flavorwire (Capital New York)
–Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson on the Paper’s Future (Re/code)
–Research chat: Sarah Cohen of the New York Times on the state of data journalism and what reporters need to know (Journalist’s Resource)
–BuzzFeed’s Founding Editor Peggy Wang: On Japanese Snacks And The Future Of Digital Media (The New Potato)
–Women In Tech: Nicola Hughes & Data Driven Journalism (Orbis)
Women on the move
–Katharine Weymouth leaves Washington Post (Poynter)
–Timeline of Katharine Weymouth and The Washington Post (Poynter)
–‘Good Morning America’ Anchor Robin Roberts Launches Production Company (Variety)
–Maureen Dowd joins N.Y.T. Magazine ahead of ‘major redesign’ (Capital New York)
–Emily Bazelon leaves Slate for New York Times Magazine (JimRomenesko.com)
–Diane Sawyer Signs Off ‘World News:’ ‘I’ll See You Right Back Here on ABC News, Very Soon’ (TV Newser)
–Bloomberg Politics taps Jeanne Cummings in D.C. (Politico)
Jill Abramson on Leaning In, Leadership & Legacy
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Read more at http://gotham-magazine.com/the-latest/women-of-influence/postings/women-who-run-new-york-jill-abramson#A7d3mDi9Tlg7KXOy.99
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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Women in journalism: Reading list for 8/10/2014
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)
Jill Abramson on Leaning In, Leadership & Legacy
Read more at http://gotham-magazine.com/the-latest/women-of-influence/postings/women-who-run-new-york-jill-abramson#A7d3mDi9Tlg7KXOy.99
Read more at http://gotham-magazine.com/the-latest/women-of-influence/postings/women-who-run-new-york-jill-abramson#A7d3mDi9Tlg7KXOy.99
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
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.dpuf
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.dpuf
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Women in journalism: Reading list for 4/20/2014
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, media and technology during the past week, 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 week’s round-ups here.
Reading List
–Where Twitter and Feminism Meet (The Nation)
–Attack on AP journalists in Afghanistan rekindles a daughter’s pain (Washington Post)
–16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox-level plaudits (Columbia Journalism Review)
16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox-level plaudits – See more at: http://www.cjr.org/realtalk/women_digital_startups.php#sthash.Nbzqj8a8.dpuf
–Light And Dark: The Racial Biases That Remain In Photography (NPR)
Home Is the First 3D Animated Film Starring A Black Character (Jezebel)
–WGA: Women Screenwriters Losing Ground, Money to Male Counterparts (The Wrap)
–Photojournalist Maggie Steber never gives up (Poynter)
–New award named for AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus (Poynter)
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
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.dpuf
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.dpuf
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Women in journalism: Reading list for 4/13/2014
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
–What does it take to create a feminist internet? #imagineafeministinternet (APC_News)
–Women Were Web Pioneers But Now Lag Behind Men (HuffPost Live)
–Why the ‘Open’ Internet Is So Closed to Women (The Nation)
–Why I’m Masquerading As A White Bearded Hipster Guy On Twitter (Despite Being a Black Woman) (XOJane)
–Recap of #MHPTwitter Chat on Hashtag Activism (HashtagFeminism)
–No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it (Medium)
–Why we need women journalists on the front lines (CNN)
–More female journalists means broader foreign coverage (Columbia Journalism Review)
–How two Times-Picayune journalists reported ‘The Long Road’ series on sex abuse (ivoh)
–Gender-flips are a simple and smart way to turn sexism on its head (Guardian)
–Make Movies by Women for Women (New York Times Room for Debate)
More female journalists means broader foreign coverage – See more at: http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/women_in_media_conference.php#sthash.DWhrpVpL.dpuf
More female journalists means broader foreign coverage – See more at: http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/women_in_media_conference.php#sthash.DWhrpVpL.dpuf
–All the Letters That Are Fit to Print (The New Yorker) On New York Times’ letter writer Felicia Nimue Ackerman
–UK’s first female photojournalist Christina Broom honored (Poynter)
–AP honors photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus at funeral: ‘She found the quiet human moments’ (Poynter)
–Q&A: NPR Digital Strategist, Melody Joy Kramer (ReportHers)
–Melissa Harris-Perry Answers Your Questions (Jezebel)
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
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.dpuf
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.dpuf
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