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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.

Byline Report: Week of 12/23/12 to 12/29/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 26: Dec. 23, 2012 – Dec. 29, 2012

California Watch

  • Note: California Watch had no posts during this time frame.

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 22.2%
  • Percent by men: 33.3%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 44.4%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 28.2%
  • Percent by men: 53.1%
  • Percent shared:  1.7%
  • Percent by other*: 16.9%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 20%
  • Percent by men: 60%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 20%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 35.3%
  • Percent by men: 52.9%
  • Percent shared: 1.5%
  • Percent by other*: 10.3%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 11.1%
  • Percent by men: 72.2%
  • Percent shared: 16.7%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

Women in journalism: Reading list 12/30/2012

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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*

–6 Women Entrepreneurs To Watch Empowering People Through Crowdfunding Platforms (ForbesWoman)

–Top 6 Upworthy Posts From 2012 To Make Women Smile (Upworthy)

–Hey, Reporters: There are Female Obama Staffers (by Jess Livoti-Morales)

–Forbes 30 Under 30 2012: Ratio, Changing (Change the Ratio)

–Pakistani teen blogger Malala Yousafzai is Time’s runner-up for Person of the Year (Poynter)

–Time Inc. Names Martha Nelson First-Ever Woman Editor-in-Chief (The Wrap)

–A Good Year for ABC News’ Martha Raddatz (TVNewser)

–Robin Fields and Eric Umansky promoted at ProPublica (JimRomenesko.com)

–Amy Walter Leaving ABC News, Returns to Cook Report (TVNewser)

–Her Story, Give or Take a Few Lines (New York Times) On Joan Kron

*Due to the holiday, this week’s list contains noteworthy links from the past two weeks.

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.

Byline Report: Week of 12/16/12 to 12/22/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 25: Dec. 16, 2012 – Dec. 22, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 37.5%
  • Percent by men: 50%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 12.5%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 29.4%
  • Percent by men: 47.1%
  • Percent shared: 11.8%
  • Percent by other*: 11.8%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 25.2%
  • Percent by men: 62.8%
  • Percent shared:  6.3%
  • Percent by other*: 5.7%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 31.6%
  • Percent by men: 47.4%
  • Percent shared: 21%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 28.5%
  • Percent by men: 61.8%
  • Percent shared: 5.7%
  • Percent by other*: 4.1%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 27.7%
  • Percent by men: 72.3%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.

Byline Report: Week of 12/9/12 to 12/15/12

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The Byline Report is a project aimed at surveying authorship at online news websites. Each report records a week’s worth of data from six websites for the purpose of uncovering trends over time. Bylines are counted from all articles in the site’s RSS feed. For more details about the project, click here.

Week 24: Dec. 9, 2012 – Dec. 15, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 57.1%
  • Percent by men: 42.9%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 25%
  • Percent by men: 62.5%
  • Percent shared: 12.5%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 25.9%
  • Percent by men: 62.1%
  • Percent shared:  6%
  • Percent by other*: 6%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 55.6%
  • Percent by men: 44.4%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 34.9%
  • Percent by men: 55.8%
  • Percent shared: 5.8%
  • Percent by other*: 3.5%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 25%
  • Percent by men: 73.2%
  • Percent shared: 1.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%
  • Note: Duplicates were removed so each article was only counted once.

*The other category includes articles that have no byline as well as those by staff and wire services.