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Women in journalism: Reading list for 1/26/2014

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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

–Transgender People Are Paying The Price For The Media’s Willful Ignorance (BuzzFeed)

–Women and Media: The Good, Bad and [Very] Ugly (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

–On Media – Or, Why Isn’t There a Jezebel/Hairpin for WOC (Racialicious)

–Life as a Female Journalist: Hot or Not? (New York Times)

–How Not to Report on Sex Trafficking (RH Reality Check)

–Let’s Face It: the Web Is a Worse Place for Women Than It Is for Men (Vice)

–Tennis Player Eugenie Bouchard Has Best Match of Her Career, Gets Asked About Her Celebrity Crush Instead (PolicyMic)

–Geeking Out: Uganda’s Women are Creating the Next Generation of Girl Geeks (Daily Beast)

–Cate Blanchett Calls Out Red Carpet Camera, Asking “Do You Do This To the Guys?” (PolicyMic)

–Debate on Photo Retouching Flares Online, With Roles Reversed (New York Times)

–Vivek Wadhwa: Keeping Women in the Tech Workforce (Wall Street Journal)

–Trouble On Our Doorstep: Female journalists cover death and life in Mexico’s drug war (Quill) – From December but worth the read

–New York Times names Molly Wood deputy tech editor (Capital New York)

–CNN to Sign Sally Kohn as Contributor (TV Newser)

–Building a Digital Legacy: Q&A with The Atlantic’s Kimberly Lau (Sparksheet)

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 1/12/2014

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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

–Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet (by Amanda Hess) Related: When Misogynist Trolls Make Journalism Miserable for Women (The Atlantic) and Let’s Be Real: Online Harassment Isn’t ‘Virtual’ For Women (Talking Points Memo)

–A Man Is Facing Jail for Harassing Women Online, and It’s a Big Deal (Jezebel)

–Tech women are busy building their own networks (Washington Post)

–One woman in list of top Twitter influencers over 50 (Telegraph)

–TV presenter sacked for swearing at studio colleague live on air after he called her a ‘f****** big w****’ through her earpiece (Daily Mail)

–In the media, a CEO remains a lady first (The Globe and Mail)

–Only Two of the 100 Top-Grossing Movies of the Year Were Directed by Women (The Mary Sue)

–The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead (by Margaret Sullivan) On Jill Abramson

–Sasheer Zamata Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ As New Cast Member (Deadline)

–Written Off: Jennifer Weiner’s quest for literary respect (The New Yorker)

–Kathryn ‘Kitty’ Broman, TV pioneer, dies at age 97 in Longmeadow (Mass Live)

–Katharine Whitehorn: I think I’ve earned a gong this time (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 for 1/5/2014

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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*

–10 ways women are criminalized for being brutalized—as seen in a single story (Women Under Siege)

–The 24 Pieces That Should Be Required Reading For Women From 2013 (HuffPost Women)

–Stoking Fire: How News Outlets, Prosecutors Minimize Sexual Violence With Language (Truthout)

–4 Women Journalists Defying the Odds in Mexico City (Global Voices)

–In Qatar, local women approach broadcast journalism tentatively (Doha News)

–Arab Journalists Training and Reporting Women (Arab Women Media Watch Centre)

–Magazine apologises for rape headline (The Copenhagen Post)

–The Big O: Remembering 2013’s Top Female Film Moments (Women and Hollywood)

–Women’s eNews Announces 21 Leaders for 21st Century 2014 (Women’s eNews)

–Journalists — Of Color! — To Watch In 2014 (NPR)

–Islamic World Through Women’s Eyes: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (New York Times)

–Meet The Inspiring Woman Breaking News About Syria As She Reinvents Digital Journalism (Fast Company) On Lara Setrakian

–Liz Jackson reveals what she’s learnt about journalism over 27 years (ABC News Back Story)

–Vivian Maier and the Hidden History of Women’s Photography (Big Think)

–Seattle’s Lindy West Brings Women’s Issues to Light Online (Seattle Magazine)

–Bloomberg’s Susan Goldberg Leaving For National Geographic (HuffPost Media)

–Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher Launch Tech News Site ‘Re/code’ (Mashable)

–Q&A: NYT Correspondent, Jodi Kantor (ReportHers)

*Note: Due to the holiday, this week’s list contains noteworthy links from the past two weeks. No Reading List was posted for the week of 12/29/2013.

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 12/22/2013

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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

–What’s Wrong With Twitter Feminism? A piece about feminism on the social network sparked outrage. (The Root)

–Can TV Roles Lead to Female Harassment? (Psych Central)

–2013 Was a Huge Win For Women in Television (PolicyMic)

–The Two Most Inexplicable Examples of Video Game Community Harassment This Week (The Mary Sue)

–COLUMN: Stereotypes still exist against women across sports landscape (ABC 7 – WJLA)

–In India, Fewer Than Three Percent of Journalists are Women (Bitch Media)

–Liberia Female Journalists Group Threatens Boycott Over All-Male Leadership (allAfrica)

–BBC must put more women on air ‘as matter of urgency’, says trust (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 for 12/15/2013

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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

–SOMALIA: All female radio brings education & community to Mogadishu (Women News Network)

–28 Most Iconic Feminist Moments of 2013 (PolicyMic)

–Another Year, Another Man for TIME (Mashable)

–NY Women In Communications Panel: ‘Where Is The Print Industry Going?’ (10,000 Words)

–Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Go Editorial (Women’s Wear Daily)

–Equality in the Newsroom? Not so much  (by Kathy Miller)

–The Femisphere: Young Feminists, Part 1 (Ms. Blog)

–The one story Elaine (Rivera) never told was her own (CNN)

–Q&A: Sarah Marshall on leaving Journalism.co.uk for the WSJ and the state of media across the pond (Nieman Lab)

–Q&A: Documentary Storyteller and Journalist, Sarah Kramer (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.