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Women in journalism: Reading list 10/7/2012

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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

–Local TV anchor [Jennifer Livingston] criticized for her weight: ‘I don’t take a lot of crap from people’ (Poynter) (See also our related Week in Review post “Television host, documentary highlight widening gap in gender access“)

–Women dominate in the classroom so why not in the newsrooms and boardrooms? (Wannabe Hacks)

–University of Montana newspaper publishes controversial rape-joke cartoon (Poynter)

–CPJ Press Freedom Awards: Honoring tenacity and courage (Committee to Protect Journalists) Liberian journalist Mae Azango is one of the awardees.

–‘USA Today’ Founder Honoring Olive Garden Columnist Marilyn Hagerty (NPR)

–W’s Nina Lawrence Decamps for WSJ (Adweek)

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 9/23/12 to 9/29/12

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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 13: Sept. 23 2012 – Sept. 29, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 52.4%
  • Percent by men: 38.1%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 9.5%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 47.6%
  • Percent by men: 47.6%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 4.8%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 27.7%
  • Percent by men: 62.4%
  • Percent shared:  3.5%
  • Percent by other*: 6.4%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 61.5%
  • Percent by men: 30.8%
  • Percent shared: 7.7%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 32.6%
  • Percent by men: 61.6%
  • Percent shared: 3.5%
  • Percent by other*: 2.3%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 16.4%
  • Percent by men: 82%
  • Percent shared: 0%
  • Percent by other*: 1.6%
  • 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 9/30/2012

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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

–What Data Can Tell Us About Gender Representation in the News (MediaShift Idea Lab)

–Female Editors-in-Chief Make $15,000 Less Than Men (The Atlantic Wire)

–Fewer than one in five Today guests or reporters are women (Guardian)

–Ruling on journalist [Jineth Bedoya Lima’s] abduction and torture points way for courts (Reporters Without Borders)

–Journalist Mona Eltahawy Arrested in New York for Spray Painting Over Pamela Geller’s Racist Subway Poster (Gawker)

–Condé Nast appoints its first black editor-in-chief [Keija Minor] (Poynter)

–First Female Presidential Moderator Tapped in ’76 (Women’s eNews)

–Robin Roberts Coverage: How Much Is Too Much? (Huffington Post Media)

–Elisa Munoz: Women in startups and digital journalism (Global Editors Network)

–Margaret Sullivan: What I Read (The Atlantic Wire)

–Evelyn Rusli leaves ‘Times’ for ‘WSJ’ (Capital New York)

–Politico opinion editor Allison Silver jumps to Reuters (JimRomenesko.com)

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 9/16/12 to 9/22/12

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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 12: Sept. 16, 2012 – Sept. 22, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 54.5%
  • Percent by men: 45.5%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 0%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity

  • Percent by women: 34.5%
  • Percent by men: 44.8%
  • Percent shared: 6.9%
  • Percent by other*: 13.8%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 21.9%
  • Percent by men: 64.2%
  • Percent shared:  6%
  • Percent by other*: 7.8%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 16.7%
  • Percent by men: 66.7%
  • Percent shared: 16.7%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 26.4%
  • Percent by men: 68.1%
  • Percent shared: 3.3%
  • Percent by other*: 2.2%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 21.7%
  • Percent by men: 78.3%
  • 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 9/23/2012

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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

–Opinion: Why do women still lag in journalism? (by Susan Antilla)

–Moroccan Women in Journalism (Global Girl Media)

–Poll: College women get election news from the paper, though they’d rather not (Poynter)

–Women Created More Television Last Year, But Is It a Durable Sign of Progress? (ThinkProgress)

–Why was a rape victim’s blog mentioned and quoted from in a story on a rape in Central Park, allowing readers to identify the woman? (Answer from Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times)

-Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue’s Edith Wharton Spread? (Slate)

–Behind ‘The Good Girls Revolt’: The ‘Newsweek’ Lawsuit That Paved the Way for Women Writers (Daily Beast)

–Women who set world media trends (The Media Reporter)

–MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry tops the ‘Root 100′ list (Poynter)

–A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (Book by journalist Samar Yazbek)

–Islamist militants seize and rename radio station in Mali (Committee to Project Journalists) Staff ordered to “to replace a female editor, Fatoumata Abdou, with a man”

–A Reaction To The Backlash Against Mindy Kaling (Racialicious)

–Alex Pham leaves Los Angeles Times for a job that gives her more flexibility (JimRomenesko.com)

–Feature writer Sheila McClear leaves the ‘New York Post’ (Capital New York)

–Mexican photojournalist Claudia Guadarrama documents the trauma of migration (Women News Network)

–How Soledad O’Brien prepared for that contentious John Sununu interview (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.