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Women in journalism: Reading list 3/11/12

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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

–Safety of women journalists on the frontline highlighted in new book (The Guardian) – For more related links, see our post on “No Woman’s Land”

–A Byline Count for the Next Generation: How Diverse Are the Blogs and Magazines Most Millennials Read? (GOOD)

–Twenty inspirational women journalists: A list of inspiring female journalists to mark International Women’s Day (Journalism.co.uk)

–International Women’s Day: Remembering the Murdered Women Writers of Mexico (Huffington Post UK)

–How Journalists Can Celebrate Women’s Day (10,000 Words)

–UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2012 (Press release)

–The Daily Beast’s ‘150 Fearless Women’ List Features Media Figures (Huffington Post Media)

–$56,000 Awarded to Four Women-Led News Projects (McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs)

–Naked ambition: Bild drops Page One Girl in bid for women readers (The Guardian)

–Nielsen: Women make up the majority of bloggers (ZDNet)

–Women underrepresented in tech jobs (Poynter)

–Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines (Columbia Journalism Review)

–How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists (Newsweek)

–In journalism, these women paved the way (Montreal Gazette)

–2012 Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Mexican Journalist Anabel Hernández (WAN-IFRA)

–TV Anchor Sue Simmons Is Being Dropped by WNBC (New York Times)

-WIW12: As Journalists Become Targets, the Need to ‘Bear Witness’ Continues (Conversation with Lynsey Addario at WIW12 via The Daily Beast)

-WIW12: New York Times’ Jill Abramson: “In our newsroom, nearly 40 percent of senior editors and managers are women, and then, of course, there’s me.” (Panel discussion at WIW12 via The Daily Beast

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Women in journalism: Reading list 3/4/12

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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.

VIDA: The 2011 count

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts released its 2011 count of male and female bylines at top magazines, showing a disparity in the number of female book reviewers and books by women that are reviewed compared to men. Web writers and journalists alike took notice of this release. Here are just a few of the related write-ups and responses:

–Gender bias in books journalism remains acute, research shows (The Guardian)

–Where in the world are women? Still not being published or reviewed, says VIDA (New York Daily News)

–America’s Top Magazines: Still Not Hiring Women (Think Progress)

–Half of MoJo’s Bylines Are Women’s (Mother Jones)

–Thought Leadership by Gender, as Reflected in Bylines (by Ann Friedman)

–Institutional sexism of books world needs new girls’ network (by Jennifer Weiner)

–Do Women Count? (by E.J. Graff)

–Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning (by Alyssa Rosenberg)

General interest links

–Broadcasters urged to increase numbers of female experts on air (Women’s Views on News)

–Young Woman in Yemen Among New Breed of Citizen Journalists (Voice of America)

–UNL journalism project on Native women gets $150K boost (Lincoln Journal Star)

–Electoral Advertising is a Women’s Media Policy Nightmare(Women’s Media Center)

–Germany’s top female journalists call for women quotas in media (The Guardian)

–Shadid’s wife [also a journalist] confesses being ‘mad’ at journalism (Washington Post)

–French journalist tells of escape from Homs (Reuters) – Regarding Edith Bouvier

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Women in journalism: Reading list 2/26/12

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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.

In Memory: Marie Colvin

Award-winning foreign correspondent Marie Colvin died in Syria this week alongside photojournalist Remi Ochlik. Colvin was remembered in numerous tributes across the web. Here are just a few:

–The Risks of Bearing Witness: Discussing Marie Colvin’s Legacy (New York Magazine)

–Opinion: Colvin fought injustice, armed only with words and images (Op-ed by Hannah Storm on CNN)

–Marie Colvin: The death of a role model (by Helena Williams for the Press Gazette)

–Profile: Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent (Reuters)

–Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik killed in Syria: Their last work and words (Washington Post)

–Marie Colvin killed in Homs: tributes to Sunday Times journalist (Telegraph) – A round-up of statement about her death

–Great Female Journalists (Independent) – A gallery of nine women starting with Colvin

General interest links

–FishbowlDC’s Rothstein criticized for accusing female journalists of going for ‘the sexpot look’ (Poynter) – Includes a round-up of other articles related to the incident

–More Discussion but Few Changes on Sexual Violence (by Lauren Wolfe as part of the Committee to Project Journalists’ Attacks on the Press in 2011)

–Boys’ Clubhouse: Why Women Should Write About Sports (GOOD)

–How many times has Elizabeth Warren been called darling? (Name It Change It)

–On #dailywife and writing for the “women’s pages” (by Rachel Hills)

–How To Be a Feminist in the Sports Culture Boys’ Club (If You Want To) (Women, Action & the Media)

–Telling Stories in Contemporary Spain: A Survey of Women Writing Literary Journalism (World Literature Today)

–Has confessional journalism gone too far? Yvonne Roberts and Lucy Cavendish discuss (The Guardian)

–Coming clean on sex pests in the newsroom (The Australian)

–How ‘Grammar Girl’ turned a single hobby podcast into a growing media network (Nieman Lab)

–Margaret Low Smith to head NPR News (Poynter)

–Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC gives new face to cable news (by Anna Holmes on the Washington Post)

–‘Trailblazer’ Belva Davis to Retire From KQED After Presidential Election (TVSpy)

–Interview: Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan, on how sex sells (The Guardian)

–Safe at home: A feature on Lara Logan (New York Times Style Magazine)

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Women in journalism: Reading list 2/19/12

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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.

–Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler (GOOD)

–Promote Women: Use Your Network to Solve the (Byline) Gender Gap (GOOD)

–Little Ms. Journalist (Huffington Post Media)

–The Contraception Mandate: Where Are The Women? (NPR Ombudsman)

–Afghan government asks for headscarves, less make-up on female TV presenters (Reuters)

–Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags (by Hillary Rosner)

–Women’s and celeb magazines suffer circulation decline (Journalism.co.uk)

–At MSNBC, a Professor as TV Host (New York Times)

–Can Melissa Harris-Perry Remove the Race and Gender Blinders from Cable News? (by Jennifer Pozner at AlterNet)

–CBS News Correspondent Clarissa Ward On The Challenges Of Reporting From Syria (TVNewswer)

–Andrea Bruce’s Photographs From Refugee Camps in Afghanistan (Lens Blog – New York Times)

–Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Women in Media, Her Dream Guest, and Being Fair, But Not Balanced (Think Progress)

–Tahrir Square one year on: Interview with journalist Shahira Amin (The Journalism Foundation)

–Sari Horwitz will cover Justice Department for Washington Post (Poynter)

Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport@gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter. View past week’s round-ups here.

Women in journalism: Reading list 2/13/12

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The Gender Report is now providing 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.

-REPORT: By A Nearly 2 To 1 Margin, Cable Networks Call On Men Over Women To Comment On Birth Control (Think Progress)

-Four Tips for Male Journalists Who Want to Discuss Women’s Health (Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress)

-Sunday Shows Overwhelmingly White And Male: Study (Huffington Post – Media)

-A Painterly World Press Photo Winner: “We seldom see veiled women in this way, at such an intimate moment.” (Lens – New York Times photo blog)

-BBC ‘got it wrong on women’ (The Guardian)

-The grammar of assault: Salisbury paper learns why ‘performing a sex act’ misrepresents the crime (Poynter)

-Cal Thomas Apologizes To Rachel Maddow For Contraception Comment (Huffington Post – Media)

-In the New York Times, Sheryl Sandberg Is Lucky, Men Are Good (Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic)

-Finding ‘Life, Death And Hope’ In A Mumbai Slum: Interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo (NPR’s Fresh Air)

-When did The New York Times first get…[a woman reporter with a desk in the newsroom]? (Poynter)

-What it’s like to cover ‘unbearable’ stories of rape in Congo (by Lynsey Addario for Women Under Siege, a project to document sexualized violence in conflict. The project’s website launched this week.)

-From darkness, dignity: Why sexualized violence must move from the shadows (by Lara Logan for Women Under Siege)

-$20K grants available for female-driven digital journalism start-ups (10,000 Words)

-Help PhD research into women in journalism (Journalism.co.uk)

Articles included in this feature do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gender Report or its writers. We encourage readers to submit suggestions of articles to include in future editions of this feature by sending an email to genderreport@gmail.com. For links to articles like these throughout the week, follow @GenderReport on Twitter.