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Women in journalism: Reading list 9/2/2012

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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.

Political Coverage

The Women’s Media Center and The 4th Estate Project partnered to release new findings on the gender gap in political coverage. According to an analysis of coverage of the 2012 presidential election at 35 newspapers, men wrote 76 percent of articles during the GOP primary period (Jan. 1 to April 15) and 72 percent of the articles during the general election period thus far (April 16 to Aug. 25). Here are related articles and the press release from the Women’s Media Center:

–Three-Quarters of Newspapers’ Presidential Coverage is Written by Men (Women’s Media Center)

–Men are Telling the Stories of Election 2012 (4thEstate.net)

-Male Journalists May Dominate Campaign Coverage, But Look What Women Write About (XX Factor)

–Three-Quarters Of The Presidential News You Read Is Written By Men (Forbes Woman)

General Interest Links

–Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any (Columbia Journalism Review)

–RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ (Talking Points Memo)

–CNN Camerawoman [Patricia Carroll] On Harassment At RNC: ‘I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all’ (TV Newser)

–Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave (Think Progress)

–‘Good Girls’ Tells of Women’s Fight for Rights at Newsweek (New York Times)

–On the frontline with female reporters (The Media Online)

–“Our World, My Voice: GlobalGirls Talk Politics” Blog Campaign (Global Girl Media)

-Is Sexual Violence on TV OK if the Heroine Is Tough? (XX Factor)

–The Feministing Five: Rose Aguilar (Feministing)

–Robin Roberts Moves Last Day on “GMA” Before Medical Leave to Thursday (ABC News)

–Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com (Poynter)

–Patch loses communications director Janine Iamunno (JimRomenesko.com)

–Sullivan says goodbye to Buffalo News to become NYT ombud (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.

Byline Report: Week of 8/19/12 to 8/25/12

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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 8: Aug. 19, 2012 – Aug. 25, 2012

California Watch

  • Percent by women: 52.9%
  • Percent by men: 35.3%
  • Percent shared (both male and female authors): 11.8%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

The Center for Public Integrity**

  • Percent by women: 43.8%
  • Percent by men: 31.3%
  • Percent shared: 3.1%
  • Percent by other*: 21.9%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 28.3%
  • Percent by men: 58.6%
  • Percent shared:  4.9%
  • Percent by other*: 8.2%

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 53.8%
  • Percent by men: 15.4%
  • Percent shared: 15.4%
  • Percent by other*: 15.4%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 27.5%
  • Percent by men: 65.2%
  • Percent shared: 2.9%
  • Percent by other*: 4.3%
  • Note: One link was dead and was not counted in the total.

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 29.2%
  • Percent by men: 70.8%
  • 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.

**iWatch changed its name back to The Center for Public Integrity as of Aug. 19, 2012. Read about the change here.

Women in journalism: Reading list 8/26/2012

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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

–Every Woman’s Story Counts — Including Yours (Huffington Post)

–Minority employment up in TV and radio, widening gap with print (Poynter)

–Women’s Media Center To Launch Live Talk Radio Show (Women’s Media Center)

–Abramson 5th on Forbes ‘Power Women’ list (Politico)

–Japanese Journalist’s Final Report From Syria Is Released After Her Death (NY Times The Lede) On the passing of Mika Yamamoto

–Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway (NY Times Lens Blog)

–Angelina Jolie gave NBC an Ann Curry ultimatum? (SheKnows)

–Megan Garvey named assistant managing editor, digital (LA Times)

–In internet time, two months = nearly eight years (by Staci Kramer at paidContent)

–Spiers’ last issue of ‘The New York Observer’ (Capital New York)

–Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily (Politico) On Andrea Seabrook

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 8/12/12 to 8/18/12

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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 7: Aug. 12, 2012 – Aug. 18, 2012

California Watch

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

iWatch News (The Center for Public Integrity)

  • Percent by women: 27.3%
  • Percent by men: 27.3%
  • Percent shared: 31.8%
  • Percent by other*: 13.6%

Politico – “2012 Live“

  • Percent by women: 37.4%
  • Percent by men: 51.7%
  • Percent shared:  5.3%
  • Percent by other*: 5.6%
  • Note: Nine links were dead this week and were not counted in the total.

ProPublica

  • Percent by women: 55.6%
  • Percent by men: 22.2%
  • Percent shared: 22.2%
  • Percent by other*: 0%

Slate

  • Percent by women: 32%
  • Percent by men: 62.7%
  • Percent shared: 4%
  • Percent by other*: 1.3%

Texas Tribune

  • Percent by women: 22.6%
  • Percent by men: 75.5%
  • Percent shared: 1.9%
  • 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 8/19/2012

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

–First Woman to Moderate Presidential Debate in 20 years (Women’s Media Center) CNN’s Candy Crowley will moderate the second of three presidential debates this fall. See our post on the subject here for a round-up of related links.

–For Female Journalists, Another Significant ‘First’ This Election Season On PBS (TV Newser) PBS’s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to be the first all-female team to lead a network’s convention coverage

–Mexican female journalists suffer from sexual, psychological violence, according to report (Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas)

–“Women” and “Journalists”: According to Mike McCurry, One of These Things Is Not Like The Other (National Women’s Law Center)

–The media’s ‘happily ever after’: Why are women like Jennifer Aniston portrayed as sad and lonely if they aren’t married? (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Meet 3 of Tech’s Foremost Female Founders (Mashable)

–How Can Women Gain Influence in Hollywood? (New York Times’ Room for Debate)

–Hillary Clinton on Being Asked about Her Clothes (Boston Review)

–Cosmo icon Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 (Poynter)

–Longtime TV anchorwoman Kathi Goertzen dies after battle with tumors (Seattle Times)

–Protection Demanded After Mexican Human Rights Defender Receives Latest Death Threat (Amnesty International) On journalist Lydia Cacho

–Soledad O’Brien’s Amazing John Sununu Interview Should Be Taught in Journalism School (Huffington Post)

–Lisa Williams asks, “Do I Really Need to Learn How to Program?” (New Media Women in the News)

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.