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Women in journalism: Reading list for 7/14/2013

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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

–The Honorable ‘Girlie’ Senator From The State Of New York (NPR Ombudsman)

–NPR’s ombudsman asks for guidelines how to fairly cover women politicians. We have some. (Name It. Change It.)

–Should you mention her shoes? Maybe. (by Meg Heckman)

–Quick Profile Comparisons (Flip The News)

–Wired’s profile of Google engineer leads with anecdotes about her wardrobe (Poynter)

–REPORT: The Sunday Morning Shows Are Still White, Conservative, And Male (Media Matters)

–Against All Odds, Female Reporters Lead in Syria (Daily Beast)

–Photography Exhibition Challenges Stereotypes of Women in Sri Lanka (Global Press Institute)

–ESPN To Air Documentary on Women Sports Journalists Who Fought for Professional Access and Treatment (Media Report to Women, the Blog)

–The First Female CEO of a Television Network Offers a Springboard for Other Women (Huffington Post)

–The Times’s New Culture Club: Young female foursome tapped to lead arts coverage (New York Observer)

–Forbes Exec Meredith Levien Tapped For Top Advertising Job At New York Times (Forbes)

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 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.

Women in journalism: Reading list for 6/30/2013

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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

–Video Volunteers’ Female Reporters Bring New Voices to Rural India (MediaShift Idea Lab)

–Media coverage of appearance hurts women candidates; People who challenge need to show data (Name It. Change It)

-“Very uncool: running a story about ultimate fearless champion Wendy Davis that leads with her “petite” demeanor in “pink running shoes.” Very cool: those pink running shoes.” (Jezebel)

–Wendy Davis’ filibuster was important, but not as important as her shoes (Name It. Change It.)

–Women at the forefront of investigative journalism in Mexico (Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas)

–21 Examples of ‘Serious Journalism’ From Women’s Magazines and Websites (The Atlantic)

–Are Women’s Mags Serious Journalism? (HuffPost Live)

–BBC journalist received ‘threatening’ tweets from Turkish mayor (The Guardian)

–NPR names Tracy Wahl executive producer of ‘Morning Edition’ (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 for 6/23/2013

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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

–#WomenEdsWeLove creator: Female editors ‘are not invisible’ & ‘they’re not that hard to find’ (Poynter)

–Robbie Myers: Yes, Women’s Magazines Can Do Serious Journalism. In Fact, We’ve Been Doing It For A While (ELLE Magazine)

–Here’s Why Women’s Magazines Don’t Produce “Serious” Journalism (XX Factor)

–The WiCi Awards: Recognizing Women Changing Communications (Mashable)

–Male Fox News guest to female Democratic consultant: “Know your role and shut your mouth” (Salon)

–Why Trolling is Worse For Feminist Writers (Policy Mic)

–At The Movies, The Women Are Gone (NPR)

–Gloria Steinem on Digital as a Medium for Women’s Stories (Huffington Post)

–Editor loses her home in fire, but it doesn’t stop the presses (The Gazette)

–Ex-LAT editor Sallie Hofmeister signs on with Sitrick (LA Observed)

–MSNBC.com adds Irin Carmon, others (JimRomenesko.com)

–The Sun launches internship named for former newsroom leader Mary J. Corey (Baltimore Sun)

–She’s Not Just Destined For Greatness, She’s Destined To Do Great Things For Women (Upworthy)

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.