Women in journalism: Reading list for 3/30/2014

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*

Journalist Mayada Ashraf shot dead covering clashes in Egypt (Committee to Protect Journalists)

Women were digital media pioneers, but there’s still a gender gap there (Columbia Journalism Review)

Diversity–or lack thereof–in journalism startups, cont. (Columbia Journalism Review)

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Women were digital media pioneers, but there’s still a gender gap there – See more at: http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/early_digital_women.php#sthash.rK4Qvmv5.dpuf
Women were digital media pioneers, but there’s still a gender gap there – See more at: http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/early_digital_women.php#sthash.rK4Qvmv5.dpuf

A Very Serious Problem With Very Serious Journalism (The Nation)

Launch Of Egyptian Women And The Media Forum (AWID)

Mind the digital gender gap: Empowering women online (Women Under Siege)

Women, Men & Food Criticism: Why the Disparity? (LA Weekly)

-‘Law And Order’s Mariska Hargitay Teams Up With Amy Poehler And Other Celebrities To Fight Rape Culture (ThinkProgress)

As N.C.A.A. Basketball Dominates Times Sports Section, What About the Women’s Game? (NYT Public Editor)

White guys still don’t get it: This is the real reason they dominate TV (Salon)

How Did I, a Woman, End Up in Women’s Media? (by Jessica Grose)

*Note: Due to travel, this week’s list contains noteworthy links from the past two weeks. No Reading List was posted for the week of 3/23/2013.

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Women in journalism: Reading list for 11/17/2013

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 broadcasters send ‘life saving information’ through emergency radio Philippines (Women News Network)

Where are the stories in global media reported by Afghan women? (John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford)

Data from the U.K.: The gender imbalance in newspapers is real, and both vertical and horizontal (Nieman Journalism Lab)

Logan Wore High Heels on Halloween, and Other Useless Anecdotes in the WAPost’s 60 Minutes Scandal Report (XX Factor)

New mag to cover global women’s issues (Columbia Journalism Review) On Valerie

One year in: Building an online women’s section ‘from scratch’ at the Telegraph (Journalism.co.uk)

Women In Sports: Fight the Power Outage (The Hairpin)

Janet Hinostroza, Ecuador: 2013 CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee (Committee to Protect Journalists)

Amy Robach’s onscreen test leads to breast cancer diagnosis (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 10/28/2012

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

CNN says women vote with their hormones (CJR)

CNN removes story about hormones affecting a woman’s vote (Poynter)

Women from Azerbaijan, Gaza, Ethiopia win courage in journalism awards (Washington Post)

CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux talks with Pakistani journalist Zubeida Mustafa about being the only woman in her newsroom (CNN)

-A Mother’s Blog and a Nanny’s Absence Online: How Digital Reporting Changes How We Understand the Krim Murders (XX Factor)

Women’s sport is underfunded and ignored, charity claims (Guardian)

After college, pay gender gap begins for most grads — but not communications major (Poynter)

Revised study: White journalists wrote 93% of front page presidential election stories, but… (Poynter)

Erin Andrews Receives Death Threats From Strange Twitter Troll (Mashable)

Monday Q&A: Pulitzer-winner Sara Ganim on working the crime beat in the digital age (Nieman Journalism Lab)

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 7/15/2012

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

Why does the BBC persist in putting men in charge? (Guardian)

Satire: If the media covered male candidates like women (Name it Change it)

Talent, not stereotypes, matter most for women in sports (by Dana O’Neil)

Woman of the Week: Agnes Umunna (Women in the World)

The State Of Journalism In Guatemala Today: Interview With Lucía Escobar (AWID)

Pamela Cytrynbaum named Chicago Innocence Project executive director (JimRomenesko.com)

Debbie Galant leaves Baristanet, heads to Montclair State University (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.