women in journalism

Byline Report: Week of 11/18/12 to 11/24/12

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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 21: Nov. 18, 2012 – Nov. 24, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 37.5%
  • Percent by men: 37.5%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 25%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 0%
  • Percent by men: 70%
  • Percent shared: 30%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 29.7%
  • Percent by men: 51.9%
  • Percent shared:  3.8%
  • Percent by other*: 14.6%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 50%
  • Percent by men: 50%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 40.3%
  • Percent by men: 50%
  • Percent shared: 8.3%
  • Percent by other*: 1.4%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 9.4%
  • Percent by men: 84.4%
  • Percent shared: 6.3%
  • 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 11/25/2012

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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 Expertize Promoted on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Women’s Media Center)

–Women at war: why we make it our place to be on the front line (The Telegraph)

–The unique advantage of female war reporters in Muslim countries (The Telegraph)

–Editor refuses to publish reviews of movies with ‘alpha’ females (Reel Girl)

–TV Doing A Great Job “Symbolically Annihilating” Women Over 40 (Jezebel)

–First Time Lionsgate Has Two Films Make Over $125 Million In The Same Year They Do It With Female Leads (The Mary Sue)

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 11/11/12 to 11/17/12

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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 20: Nov. 11, 2012 – Nov. 17, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 50%
  • Percent by men: 50%
  • 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: 20.9%
  • Percent by men: 65.8%
  • Percent shared:  9.4%
  • Percent by other*: 3.9%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 40%
  • Percent by men: 55%
  • Percent shared: 5%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 28.3%
  • Percent by men: 62.6%
  • Percent shared: 6.1%
  • Percent by other*: 3%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 20.8%
  • Percent by men: 75.5%
  • Percent shared: 1.9%
  • Percent by other*: 1.9%
  • 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 11/18/2012

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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

–The media’s woman blaming (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Can Paula Broadwell Reclaim Her Story? (Ms Magazine)

–Everything You Need to Know About the Media’s Coverage of the Petraeus Sex Scandal (Hint: It’s Sexist) (Bitch Media)

–Petraeus Affair Perpetuates Stereotype of Female Journalists (Daily Beast)

–Women’s Groups Press BBC on Savile Sex Scandal (Women’s eNews)

–Nancy Pelosi Fires Back at Luke Russert’s Ageist and Sexist Question (BlogHer)

–Business Insider Wonders: Are Women Too Lazy to Succeed at Goldman Sachs? (Gawker)

–Businessweek ranks schools on girls’ hotness (Daily Dot)

–GLAAD: Cincinnati Fox news anchor on Facebook called Rachel Maddow an ‘angry young man’ (Miami Herald)

–Virginia Moseley Leaves ABC After 18 Years, Joins CNN as VP/Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington (TV Newser)

–Geneva Overholser to leave post at Annenberg School of Journalism (Poynter)

–Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim leaves Patriot-News to join CNN (Poynter)

–How Elizabeth Spiers got Mediabistro noticed – then failed to profit from its sale (JimRomenesko.com)

–Tuesday Q&A: Tumblr editor Jessica Bennett on new platforms for news and the rise of the GIF (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–Call for Applications: 2013 Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier Grant Program (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.

Byline Report: Week of 11/4/12 to 11/10/12

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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 19: Nov. 4, 2012 – Nov. 10, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 28.6%
  • Percent by men: 64.3%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 7.1%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 29.4%
  • Percent by men: 41.2%
  • Percent shared: 23.5%
  • Percent by other*: 5.9%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 28.6%
  • Percent by men: 62.3%
  • Percent shared:  5.3%
  • Percent by other*: 3.7%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 52.4%
  • Percent by men: 33.3%
  • Percent shared: 14.3%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 26.9%
  • Percent by men: 67.2%
  • Percent shared: 3.7%
  • Percent by other*: 2.2%
  • Note: One link was dead this week and was not included in the calculations.

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 27.3%
  • Percent by men: 66.7%
  • Percent shared: 3%
  • Percent by other*: 3%
  • 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.