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Women in journalism: Reading list 4/7/2013

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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

–National Magazine Award: Year of the Woman (Finally) (Mother Jones)

–Awful New York Times Obit for Rocket Scientist Rhapsodizes About Her Beef Stroganoff (Jezebel)

–To avoid sexism, follow AP style: The New York Times would have dodged a headache in its Yvonne Brill obituary (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Imprisoned Ethiopian journalist Reeyot Alemu threatened with solitary confinement; denied urgently needed medical care (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–Quotas get results: A chat with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on tapping sources more diverse than the usual pool of white dudes (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland (Los Angeles Review of Books)

–9 Real-Life Lessons Learned From Chick-Flick Journalists (Refinery 29)

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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 3/24/2013

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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

–President Obama: Nominate a Woman to Replace Outgoing FCC Chair (Women’s Media Center)

–Huffington Post’s front page gender breakdown for March 21, 2013 (Women in the News)

–Esquire editor says photos of women are like ‘pictures of cool cars’ (Poynter)

–BBC to hold Expert Women’s Days in Salford, Glasgow and Cardiff (Guardian)

–Why The Opt-Out Story Won’t Die (BuzzFeed)

–How The Media Took Sides In The Steubenville Rape Case (Think Progress)

–Rachel Sklar: The Firing Of Adria Richards Looks Like Kneejerk Appeasement To The Troll Armies (Business Insider)

–How Social Media Can Become Our New Rape Whistle (The Cut)

–When the Good Girls Revolted — A Story of Newsweek (HuffPost Women)

–Attacks on Women Journalists the Focus of UN Panel (Dart Blog)

–9-Year-Old Girl Raises $15,000 to Make Video Game (Mashable)

–Allyson Bird explains further ‘why I left the news’ (Poynter)

–Mail on Sunday appoints Fleet Street’s first female sports editor, Alison Kervin (Guardian)

–Deborah Solomon quits Bloomberg View and returns to Wall Street Journal (JimRomenesko.com)

–Margaret Sullivan, an Ombud Who Cares (The Nation)

–Women Behind the News: Bloomberg News’ Vietnam bureau chief K. Oanh Ha (International Women’s Media Foundation)

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 3/17/2013

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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

–Why I’m Canceling My Subscription: An Open Letter to ‘Harper’s’ from a Loyal Reader (Flavorwire)

–No progress for female bylines: VIDA’s latest byline count shows “gross (& indecent) neglect of female writers’ work” (Columbia Journalism Review)

-Yes, There Are a Lot of Women Writers on TV. What’s the Problem? (XX Factor)

–More women are needed in investigative journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Christiane Amanpour’s tribute to courageous women (CNN)

–50 female innovators in digital journalism (Journalism.co.uk)

–CNN’s Steubenville Coverage Focuses On Effect Rape Trial Will Have On Rapists, Not Victim (Huffington Post)

–Judge releases Somali journalist jailed for interviewing alleged rape victim (Guardian)

–Media Portrayal of Black Women the Real ‘Scandal’ (Women’s eNews)

–Fox station apologizes for focus on breasts in Women’s Day story (JimRomenesko.com)

–Through her reporting and activism, Mexican journalist Marcela Turati, recipient of the 2013 Lyons Award, is giving voice to those who lack political power and access to the media (Nieman Reports)

–Sandy Close, recipient of the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal, has made a career out of helping ethnic communities and the dispossessed tell their own stories (Nieman Reports)

–Monday Q&A: EFF’s Jillian York on just-in-time censorship, scaling connectors, and the problem with banning porn (Nieman Journalism Lab)

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 3/10/2013

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

–Women Make the News 2013: Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender (UNESCO)

–Writing about powerful women: The media should stop treating Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer as though they represent their whole gender (Columbia Journalism Review)

–VIDA COUNT 2012: MIC CHECK, REDUX (VIDA: Women in Literary Arts)

–2012 VIDA Byline Gender Parity Count Is Out and Depressing As Ever (Jezebel)

–Data on gender that will make you smile, not groan: What does it take to create a news organisation that publishes a diversity of women’s voices? Explore the data and find out the reasons for the Global Voices’ success at gender equality (Guardian)

–Dramatic Gender Difference in NPR Stories (Forbes)

–Powerful photo essay on domestic violence stirs backlash (Poynter)

–2013 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier (IWMF)

–Women’s Representation At Big Publications Is Actually Dropping (BuzzFeed)

–A Tale of Two Journalists (Women’s Media Center)

–CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Her Entrepreneurial TV Future (Business Week)

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.