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Women in journalism: Reading list for 10/27/2014

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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. Continue reading →

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 9/14/2014

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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)

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 7/13/2014

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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 week’s round-ups here.

Reading List

–Here’s What Female Journalists Have To Say About Media’s Gender Gap (Huffington Post Media)

–Rosie the scribbler: Why women are leading coverage of the war-torn Middle East (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Women and minorities still just a whisper among op-ed voices (Poynter)

–Rieder: A global platform for bold journalists (USA Today) On Global Voices: Truthdig Women Reporting

Rosie the scribbler

Why women are leading coverage of the war-torn Middle East

– See more at: http://www.cjr.org/reports/rosie_the_scribbler.php#sthash.VKwfVX17.dpuf

–Jill Abramson Talks Obama Secrecy and Her New York Times Firing (Daily Beast)

–Half of 2014’s movies fail this basic test of sexism (Vox)

–Women Make Up Only 26% Of Nominees for 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (Women’s Media Center)

–Dear Google Glass, Moms Like Technology Too (Medium)

–1,000 Women Were At Google’s Developer’s Conference And They Were Badly Needed (Business Insider)

–Reporter’s (Amanda Lindhout) harrowing ordeal as hostage set to become movie (CNN)

–Guardian appoints Jane Martinson as head of media (Guardian)

–CNN’s social news editor Samantha Barry: Engagement doesn’t have to mean clickbait (Digiday)

–Diane Sawyer Leaving ‘ABC World News;’ David Muir Takes Over as Anchor and Managing Editor (TV Newser)

–AP’s Kathy Gannon and the late Anja Niedringhaus given National Press Club awards (Poynter)

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/18/2014

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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, 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

–Times Ousts Jill Abramson as Executive Editor, Elevating Dean Baquet (New York Times). With so many articles being written about this, we’ve compiled a separate reading list, which can be accessed here.

–RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic (Washington Post)

–Bearing Witness, Losing Her Life: On the passing of Camille Lepage (Lens Blog)

–2014 Courage in Journalism Awards (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–This Fall, TV Looks Much More Diverse: Now Don’t Screw It Up (NPR)

–The Real Story About the Wrong Photos in #BringBackOurGirls (Lens Blog)

–Obits reflect bias ‘of our forebears,’ NYT editor says (Poynter)

–No Cannes Do – The Status of Women Directors at Cannes Over the Last Decade (Women and Hollywood)

–Le Monde editor Natalie Nougayrède quits after power struggle with top staff (Guardian)

–So-called women’s issues (Ann Friedman)

–Still Talking About It: ‘Where Are the Women?’ (NYT Public Editor)

–NPR Pays Tribute to Pioneering Female Journalist Nellie Bly (Fishbowl NY)

–Micheline Maynard to lead National Center for Business Journalism at ASU (Poynter)

–Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair’s website (Poynter)

–Judith Cummings, Chief of a Bureau for The Times, Dies at 68 (New York Times)

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 4/13/2014

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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

–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)

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–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)

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