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Women in journalism: Reading list 5/6/2012

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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

–In Honor of World Press Freedom Day: IWMF Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Announced (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–World Press Freedom Day 2012 shows need for women journalists (Women News Network)

–Women Of ‘The Daily Show’: Why Haven’t More Become Breakout Stars? (Huffington Post)

–Bloggers Debate the Treatment of Arab Women (PEJ)

–Is that a woman as a source in your story? (Public Insight Network)

–Why is there so much misogyny online? (Guardian)

–Nine Articles ‘for Women’ That Journalists Should Stop Writing (The Atlantic Wire)

–‘More women stepping out to write’ (The Times of India)

–Pretty Funny (Minus the Funny) (Huffington Post)

–Ferial Haffajee: ‘Africa is a place of hope and that is reflected in its journalism’ (Journalism.co.uk)

–Shepard, media critic and former NPR ombudsman, joins UNLV faculty (Las Vegas Review Journal)

–Claudia Townsend leaves WaPo after three decades (JimRomenesko.com)

–Life’s Work: Christiane Amanpour (Harvard Business 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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 4/29/12

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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 Digital (Gender) Divide: Women Are More Likely Than Men to Have a Blog (and a Facebook Profile) (The Atlantic)

–Sri Lanka’s Top Media Jobs Still Elude Women  (Asia Sentinel)

–Two Egyptian journalists attacked in Alexandria (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Journalist and human rights activist Dina Meza threatened again (Reporters Without Borders)

–Liberian journalist Mae Azango on cold threats, hot stories (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Journalism professor awarded for diversity work (Baylor Lariat)

–U. of Maryland j-school dean finalists make presentations (JimRomenesko.com)

–Debra Leithauser leaves Washington Post for McClatchy (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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 4/22/12

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

–If It’s Sunday, It’s Meet The Republican White Men (Think Progress)

–Happy 8th Birthday to Feministing! (Feministing)

–‘Boys On The Bus’: 40 Years Later, Many Are Girls (NPR)

–Where Are the Women Writers? ASME Chief Responds (Mother Jones)

–What’s With Magazine Journalism and Women? (The Atlantic Wire)

–IWMF Announces 2012 Winners of Women Entrepreneurs in Digital News Frontier Grants (IWMF)

–Hillary’s Hair: More newsworthy than the Summit of the Americas? (WIMN’s Voices)

–Study: Readers value extra editing, women especially (Poynter)

–MaryAnne Golon named Washington Post’s new director of photography (Poynter)

–PulseWire Member Naglaa Seed Ahmed Brutally Beaten by Sudanese Forces (World Pulse)

–Lost in a life outside Syria (Women Under Siege) – About photojournalist Matilde Gattoni

–A 1973 ‘gal’ sports reporter looks back at the era’s journalistic hurdles (Chicago Tribune)

–Sara Ganim, 24, wins Pulitzer for coverage of Penn State sex abuse scandal (Poynter)

–McGill medal winner shares stories of courage with students (Red and Black)

–Joye Patterson remembered as innovator in the field of science journalism at MU  (Missourian)

–Christiane Amanpour: ‘There’s still so much prejudice out there’ (The Guardian)

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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 4/15/12

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

–5 Guidelines that Can Prevent Sexist Reporting on Women in Politics (AlterNet)

–BBC in new sexism row after gender pay gap revealed (The Telegraph)

–How 25 National Magazine Award Nominations Went To 25 Male Writers (The Awl) – Read our round-up post on the controversy here.

–Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance (Daily Beast)

–Ashley Judd leads push back against image-based appraisals of women (Anna Holmes for the Washington Post)

–Meet the most popular woman at NPR’s Fresh Air (and it’s not Terry Gross) (Nieman Lab)

–Publisher receives top honor for women journalists in region (The Salem News)

–Jessica Mendoza finds hope in Rwanda (espnW)

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.

Women in journalism: Reading list 4/8/12

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

–Are Boy Bylines Better Than Girl Bylines? (Michele Weldon at Huffington Post Media)

–National Magazine Award Nominees: A Byline Gender Count (With Links!) (Ann Friedman) – This post set off a series of commentaries on gender and the awards. Read about what followed and access a round-up of related links here.

–NYU releases list of ’100 Outstanding Journalists’ (Poynter)

–The 22 Outstanding (Women) Journalists in the Last 100 Years (The Atlantic Wire)

–ASNE chooses five women editors for leadership panel (Poynter)

–Total and minority newsroom employment declines in 2011 but loss continues to stabilize (ASNE) – The percentage of women in newsrooms did not change in 2011, staying at 36.9 percent. See our related post here.

–Life as a female foreign reporter (The Guardian)

–World Pulse Wins Award in First Intel Hackathon (World Pulse)

–Africa: Giving Girls a Voice (AllAfrica)

–Women’s group pioneering Kenya’s investigative journalism (The Hotpot)

–For women in work this is a perfect storm of inequality (Tanya Gold for The Guardian)

–Pakistani Journalist Finds Hockey and Hope in Minnesota (KSTP)

–Q&A: How Susan Brownmiller fought the media on rape in war, and won (Women Under Siege)

–A Tribute to Indonesia’s Most Senior Journalist (Jakarta Globe)

–In Liberia, journalist Mae Azango moves a nation (Committee to Protect Journalists)

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.