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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 1/20/2013

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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

–Professor: Media coverage of rape often missing meaningful discussion (KU News Release)

–Who Needs Feminist Media? Answers from Short-Essay Contest Winners (Ms. blog)

–Coverage of Social Issues Among To Newspapers – Election 2012 (4thEstate.net)

–A Salute to Girl Power in Hollywood (New York Times)

–Lara Setrakian: Single-story sites like Syria Deeply have lessons to offer the rest of the news business (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Somali journalist arrested after interviewing rape victim (Guardian)

–Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu loses appeal, remains in prison (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Middletown Press reporter Lauren Sievert assaulted outside Connecticut courthouse (Poynter)

–Abandoned Babies & Terrible Mothers: Media Coverage Bias (BlogHer)

–Nigella Lawson Tells ABC They Can’t Airbush Her Tummy For Promo Poster (BuzzFeed)

–‘Dear Abby’ advice columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at age 94 (AP)

–Ellen Weiss To Head Scripps DC News Bureau (TV News Check)

–N.Y. Times’ Alice DuBois leaves for BuzzFeed (Politico)

–Joyce Wadler Takes NY Times Buyout (New York Observer)

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 1/6/2013

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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

–Women’s eNews Announces 21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2013 (Women’s eNews)

–2012: The highs and lows of women in Hollywood (CNN)

–Women’s Magazine Editors Allow More Printed Vulgarities (New York Times)

–Remembering the first lady of Hebrew journalism (Haaretz) On Hanna Zemer

–Blogger Malala Yousafzai Leaves Hospital After Taliban Attack (Mashable)

–Melissa Farlow Named To Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame (NPPA)

–Michele Norris to Return to NPR in New Role (Media Decoder)

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 8/19/2012

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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

–First Woman to Moderate Presidential Debate in 20 years (Women’s Media Center) CNN’s Candy Crowley will moderate the second of three presidential debates this fall. See our post on the subject here for a round-up of related links.

–For Female Journalists, Another Significant ‘First’ This Election Season On PBS (TV Newser) PBS’s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to be the first all-female team to lead a network’s convention coverage

–Mexican female journalists suffer from sexual, psychological violence, according to report (Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas)

–“Women” and “Journalists”: According to Mike McCurry, One of These Things Is Not Like The Other (National Women’s Law Center)

–The media’s ‘happily ever after’: Why are women like Jennifer Aniston portrayed as sad and lonely if they aren’t married? (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Meet 3 of Tech’s Foremost Female Founders (Mashable)

–How Can Women Gain Influence in Hollywood? (New York Times’ Room for Debate)

–Hillary Clinton on Being Asked about Her Clothes (Boston Review)

–Cosmo icon Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 (Poynter)

–Longtime TV anchorwoman Kathi Goertzen dies after battle with tumors (Seattle Times)

–Protection Demanded After Mexican Human Rights Defender Receives Latest Death Threat (Amnesty International) On journalist Lydia Cacho

–Soledad O’Brien’s Amazing John Sununu Interview Should Be Taught in Journalism School (Huffington Post)

–Lisa Williams asks, “Do I Really Need to Learn How to Program?” (New Media Women in the News)

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.