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Women in journalism: Reading list for 10/6/2013

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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

–How “Jezebel” Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click (Mother Jones)

–MIPCOM: The 25 Most Powerful Women in Global TV (The Hollywood Reporter)

–Broadcast journalist Fatou Camara held without charge in Gambia (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Sarah Bartlett Named New Dean of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (New York Observer)

–Kathy Best named new Seattle Times editor; newsroom leadership team announced (Seattle Times)

–Q&A: Guardian social and community editor Joanna Geary heads off to Twitter U.K. (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Q&A: Videographer, Sachi Cunningham (ReportHers)

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 for 8/11/2013

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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 know more than just love and sex (Salon)

–Twitter bomb threats: Online and offline, female journalists face abuse “all the time” (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

–Why are op-eds written by women more prone to verge on the personal? (The Guardian)

–‘NewsHour’ Appoints First Female Anchor Team (New York Times)

–Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff Named Co-Anchors, Managing Editors of PBS NewsHour (PBS NewsHour)

–Q&A: Nadia Sharmeen on journalists in Bangladesh (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Q&A: CIR video producer, Amanda Pike (ReportHers)

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 for 5/19/2013

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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

–Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best (NPR)

–Do you think about gender on Twitter? (Twee-Q)

–Open Gender Tracker analyses gender balance in the media (Journalism.co.uk)

–Where have all the women gone in movies? (LA Times)

–Marissa Mayer’s Widower Debuts on Philanthropic Stage (Flip the News) – The Laurene Jobs story recast as a Zach Bogue story.

–Sports Illustrated Loves Models. Female Athletes? Not So Much (Jezebel)

–Why are Indian women being attacked on social media? (BBC News India)

–NPR Describes Senator Gillibrand as “petite, blond and perky” (Miss Representation)

–Shameful: Washington Times Column Blames Female Service Members for Assault, Calls Them Liars (Huffington Post)

–No, You Cannot Substitute ‘Sex’ For ‘Rape’ (Think Progress)

–Once Again, Media Asks Wrong Questions and Blames Victims (Ms. Magazine)

–REPORT: Diversity On Evening Cable News In 13 Charts (Media Matters)

–Walters to Announce 2014 Retirement on ‘The View’ (New York Times)

–Why We’ll Miss Glass Ceiling-Breaker Barbara Walters (KQED)

–Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon as late-night white-guy beat goes on (She the People)

–Still Shooting After the End of War (NYTimes Lens Blog) On Stacy Pearsall

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 3/31/2013

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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

–#EdgyHeadlines Flips Gender; Illustrates Misogyny In Media And Culture (Mediabistro’s All Twitter)

–TIME’s list of top Twitter users is basically a boys’ club (by Meg Heckman)

–From ‘Californication’ To ‘Veep’ The TV Shows That Hired No Women Or Writers Of Color In 2011-2012 (ThinkProgress)

–BBC launches expert women database and YouTube channel (The Telegraph)

–Atwood: How things have changed for women in journalism (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

–Is There Really Room to Debate Whether Women Can Lead? (New York Times)

–Why asking & answering readers’ tough questions is helpful when covering rape (Poynter)

–Somali women’s rights reporter Rahma Abdulkadir shot dead in Mogadishu (Guardian)

–Venezuelan Cartoonist Threatened: Rayma Suprani (AWID)

–Ahn Sehong’s captivating black and white photos of “Comfort Women,” Koreans forced into sexual slavery during World War II (New York Times Lens Blog)

–Zanele Muholi, South African Photographer, Highlights Lesbians, Transgender Women (Huffington Post)

–Introducing the Zubeida Mustafa Award for Journalistic Excellence (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–‘Daily News’ steals ‘Post’ transit reporter Jennifer Fermino for its City Hall bureau chief (Capital New York)

–Kenya: a public editor learns her value (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Tuesday Q&A: Amanda Zamora on participation metrics, deeper engagement, and why ProPublica is heading to Reddit (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–And that’s the way it was: March 25, 1934 – Gloria Steinem is born in Toledo, OH (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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 10/21/2012

Jasmine 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

–Shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai can stand, communicate, hospital says (CNN)

–Sonia Dridi, Cairo Reporter, ‘Savagely Attacked’: France 24 TV (AP)

–Study: Women no longer need exceptional qualifications to win Pulitzers, but… (Poynter)

–Talk to the Times: Questions for Jill Abramson, Executive Editor (New York Times)

–Wilhelmina Model Robyn Lawley On Twitter’s Shameful Candy Crowley Attacks (Daily Beast)

–Teen who petitioned for female debate moderator: ‘No one — man or woman — could have done it better’ (Poynter)

–Good Girls Don’t: After suing Newsweek for sex discrimination, some women ran up against their own timidity (Nieman Reports)

–Sexist stereotypes dominate front pages of British newspapers, research finds (Guardian)

–Why does this shocking dearth of women in the media persist? (Guardian)

–Twitter Seeks Woman for Its All-Male Board [REPORT] (Mashable)

–One month in, Margaret Sullivan talks about the changing role of New York Times Public Editor (Poynter)

–So What Do You Do, Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC Host and Tulane University Professor? (Mediabistro)

–Penske Puts a Woman in Charge at Variety (Fishbowl LA) Michelle Sobrino-Stearns named first-ever female publisher.

–Kristina O’Neill named editor of WSJ. Magazine (JimRomenesko.com)

–Why Heidi N. Moore is leaving ‘Marketplace’ for the Guardian (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.