women in journalism

Women in journalism: Reading list 12/16/2012

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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

–Two new studies show men outnumber women in obits (Poynter)

–Why Women Writers Still Take Men’s Names (Wall Street Journal)

–Pew: Men, highly educated are more engaged with news on mobile devices (Poynter)

–Critical Thinking: How to Get More Women and Minorities in Executive Roles (Editor & Publisher)

–Inspiring African journalists understand the need to be there (Editors Weblog)

–Rhonda Lee shouldn’t have been fired (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.

Byline Report: Week of 12/2/12 to 12/8/12

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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 23: Dec. 2, 2012 – Dec. 8, 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: 22.2%
  • Percent by men: 66.7%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 11.1%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 26.6%
  • Percent by men: 61.6%
  • Percent shared:  6%
  • Percent by other*: 5.8%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 36.4%
  • Percent by men: 54.5%
  • Percent shared: 9.1%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 33.8%
  • Percent by men: 58.4%
  • Percent shared: 7.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 17%
  • Percent by men: 83%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • 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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 12/9/2012

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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

–Five things about women in the press (BBC)

–7 Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen (Mother Jones)

–Study Finding We Are Done with Gender Bias Omits Important Data (BlogHer)

–Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later (Washington Post) – Betty McIntosh’s report

–The 9 Most Scrutinized Uteri In Recent History — Other Than Kate Middleton’s (Huffington Post)

–Opinion: Every Mistress Needs Someone to Play Sugar Daddy (Bloomberg)

–Extra: Beers with the gals: Jill Abramson on women in journalism (Current)

–MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Nominated For Grammy Award (Mediaite)

–Elisabeth Murdoch, Matriarch of a Journalism Family, Dies at 103 (New York Times)

–Monica Yant Kinney: “The Newspaper Industry Is Getting Smaller” (Philly 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.

Byline Report: Week of 11/25/12 to 12/1/12

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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 22: Nov. 25, 2012 – Dec. 1, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 46.7%
  • Percent by men: 46.7%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 6.7%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 16.7%
  • Percent by men: 58.3%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 25%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 24.8%
  • Percent by men: 64.5%
  • Percent shared:  4.5%
  • Percent by other*: 6.1%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 11.1%
  • Percent by men: 66.7%
  • Percent shared: 22.2%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 25.2%
  • Percent by men: 67.6%
  • Percent shared: 3.6%
  • Percent by other*: 3.6%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 26.1%
  • Percent by men: 73.9%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • 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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 12/2/2012

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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

–Women’s groups demand new watchdog to confront sexism in the media (Guardian)

–The Online Culture of ‘Niceness’ Doesn’t Extend to the Ladies (Jezebel)

–Women in Gaming Tweet About Sexist Industry With #1reasonwhy (Mashable)

–Gay at the Times: A lot has changed at the Gray Lady since the early ’90s (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Why Washington Post journalist first wrote about her rape, 28 years later (Poynter)

–Enslaved as a child, a young woman gives voice to the horrors of human trafficking with a breakthrough radio show (Newsweek)

–“I’m the other Tina Brown” – the one who isn’t leading a glamorous life (JimRomenesko.com)

–The colorful evolution of newswomen’s attire (Washington Post)

–Mandy Stadtmiller advises student journalists to exploit their youth (JimRomenesko.com)

–Montgomery Advertiser announces retirement of Executive Editor Wanda Lloyd (Montgomery Advertiser)

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.