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Women in journalism: Reading list for 8/11/2013

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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 know more than just love and sex (Salon)

–Twitter bomb threats: Online and offline, female journalists face abuse “all the time” (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

–Why are op-eds written by women more prone to verge on the personal? (The Guardian)

–‘NewsHour’ Appoints First Female Anchor Team (New York Times)

–Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff Named Co-Anchors, Managing Editors of PBS NewsHour (PBS NewsHour)

–Q&A: Nadia Sharmeen on journalists in Bangladesh (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Q&A: CIR video producer, Amanda Pike (ReportHers)

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 for 7/14/2013

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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 Honorable ‘Girlie’ Senator From The State Of New York (NPR Ombudsman)

–NPR’s ombudsman asks for guidelines how to fairly cover women politicians. We have some. (Name It. Change It.)

–Should you mention her shoes? Maybe. (by Meg Heckman)

–Quick Profile Comparisons (Flip The News)

–Wired’s profile of Google engineer leads with anecdotes about her wardrobe (Poynter)

–REPORT: The Sunday Morning Shows Are Still White, Conservative, And Male (Media Matters)

–Against All Odds, Female Reporters Lead in Syria (Daily Beast)

–Photography Exhibition Challenges Stereotypes of Women in Sri Lanka (Global Press Institute)

–ESPN To Air Documentary on Women Sports Journalists Who Fought for Professional Access and Treatment (Media Report to Women, the Blog)

–The First Female CEO of a Television Network Offers a Springboard for Other Women (Huffington Post)

–The Times’s New Culture Club: Young female foursome tapped to lead arts coverage (New York Observer)

–Forbes Exec Meredith Levien Tapped For Top Advertising Job At New York Times (Forbes)

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 3/31/2013

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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

–#EdgyHeadlines Flips Gender; Illustrates Misogyny In Media And Culture (Mediabistro’s All Twitter)

–TIME’s list of top Twitter users is basically a boys’ club (by Meg Heckman)

–From ‘Californication’ To ‘Veep’ The TV Shows That Hired No Women Or Writers Of Color In 2011-2012 (ThinkProgress)

–BBC launches expert women database and YouTube channel (The Telegraph)

–Atwood: How things have changed for women in journalism (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

–Is There Really Room to Debate Whether Women Can Lead? (New York Times)

–Why asking & answering readers’ tough questions is helpful when covering rape (Poynter)

–Somali women’s rights reporter Rahma Abdulkadir shot dead in Mogadishu (Guardian)

–Venezuelan Cartoonist Threatened: Rayma Suprani (AWID)

–Ahn Sehong’s captivating black and white photos of “Comfort Women,” Koreans forced into sexual slavery during World War II (New York Times Lens Blog)

–Zanele Muholi, South African Photographer, Highlights Lesbians, Transgender Women (Huffington Post)

–Introducing the Zubeida Mustafa Award for Journalistic Excellence (International Women’s Media Foundation)

–‘Daily News’ steals ‘Post’ transit reporter Jennifer Fermino for its City Hall bureau chief (Capital New York)

–Kenya: a public editor learns her value (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Tuesday Q&A: Amanda Zamora on participation metrics, deeper engagement, and why ProPublica is heading to Reddit (Nieman Journalism Lab)

–And that’s the way it was: March 25, 1934 – Gloria Steinem is born in Toledo, OH (Columbia Journalism 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 3/3/2013

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

–Don’t blame the victim, or the photographer (Salon)

–Salacious, voyeuristic, insensitive: How the media harms one survivor of rape (Women Under Siege)

–Speaking out about sexual violence (Ottawa Citizen)

–‘Said to Lady Journos’ Tumblr is ‘depressingly relatable,’ female journalists say. Related: Meet the lady behind the ‘Said to Lady Journos’ Tumblr (Poynter)

–Dealing with harassment and sexism (Columbia Journalism Review)

–Online Misogynists Are Not Fringe Characters (Raw Story)

–House of Cads: The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington (New Republic)

–Launching Voices of Our Future Training Program 2013 (World Pulse)

–New documentary honors women who paved the way (Daily Beast) On MAKERS: Women Who Make America. Watch the documentary online here.

–Where were today’s digital feminists in ‘Women Who Make America’? (Guardian)

–More Women Needed Behind and in Front of the Camera (by Julie Burton)

–Good News for Female Magazine Editors: The Pay Gap Is Narrowing (XX Factor)

–Mary J. Corey, first woman to lead Sun newsroom, dies of cancer (Baltimore Sun)

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.