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Women in journalism: Reading list for 4/27/2014

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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, media and technology during the past week, as well as articles related to the intersections of gender, race, class, nationality, ability, and sexual orientation and the media. 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

–Where the Women Are: Measuring Female Leadership in the New Journalism Ecology (Meg Heckman)

–Opinion: The Media Has a Woman Problem (New York Times)

–Russian Politician Bullies Female Journalists (VIDEO) (The World Post)

–Female in Gaza (New York Times)

–3 Pitfalls To Avoid When Talking About Race (NPR)

–Imagining a misogyny-free internet (GenderIT.org)

–Journalism’s hiring transparency problem (Columbia Journalism Review)

Journalism’s hiring transparency problem

–FBomb Joins Women’s Media Center (WMC)

–Cosmopolitan.com hires Jill Filipovic, burnishes feminist cred (Capital New York)

–Jill Abramson on Leaning In, Leadership & Legacy (Gotham Mag)

Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpufCall
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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 4/6/2014

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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

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–AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus killed, reporter Kathy Gannon wounded (AP) (View a round-up of tributes to Niedringhaus here in our related post.)

–Divided: The Media Gender Gap [Infographic] (Women’s Media Center)

–Exposed: Outrageous Gender Bias Rife in News Industry (AlterNet)

–Study: Sun-Times has most bylines by women, NYT fewest (Poynter)

–CoverIt Live Feed: Conversations in Journalism 2014 #cij14. (The Columbia Journalism School Women in Journalism) The organization held its first student-organized conference on Saturday, April 5th.

–Technology’s Man Problem (New York Times)

–The story of women in Afghanistan ‘must be told’ (Poynter)

–And Women Shall Lead: Lynsey Addario on the New Face of Afghanistan (TIME)

–Hillary Clinton: ‘There Is A Double Standard’ Against Women In The Media (HuffPost Media)

–Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant (MediaStorm)

–Enough With the Ageist, Sexist Mom Jokes (XX Factor)

–The Things She Carried (New York Times) On the absence of stories about female veterans

Women in radio: Intensifying advocacy on gender equality, women empowerment – See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=1501396187683#sthash.01kY4GD7.NZifF7o2.dpuf

–Reporter Fired for Checking Email? Serena Markstrom Nugent’s termination from the R-G draws employee protest (Eugene Weekly)

–The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women (FiveThirtyEight)

–The Continuing Case for Having More Women in Film (Women and Hollywood)

–Hey, Saturday Night Live: I’m a Black Woman. Why Did You Turn Me into a Man? (XX Factor)

–The Publication That Comes Closest to Gender Parity Among Writers Often Doesn’t Pay (XX Factor)

–More Useless Career Advice from Successful Women (XX Factor)

–Michele Norris’ ‘Race Card Project’ Is Among Peabody Award Winners (NPR)

–The Blind Spot: Samantha Asumadu (Digital Women UK)

–Meet the two journalists (Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol) set on empowering women (New York Post)

Call for Proposals: Alexia Foundation 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant – See more at: http://mediastorm.com/blog/2014/04/04/call-for-proposals-alexia-foundation-2014-womens-initiative-grant/#sthash.fW8ULB29.dpufCall
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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 2/23/2014

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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*

–Women’s Media Center Report Finds Women Still Underrepresented, Misrepresented in U.S. Media (WMC press release) Find links to other articles about the report in our related post here: Studying women’s representation in digital media: The challenges and limitations

–Finding the Courage to Cover Sexual Violence (Committee to Protect Journalists)

–Film, TV industry’s diversity doesn’t look like America’s, report says (LA Times) On the “Hollywood Diversity Report”

–Sahar Speaks: Reporting by Afghan women (John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships)

–On Campaign Trail, Missteps on Gender (by Margaret Sullivan, New York Times public editor)

–Facebook Just Created 50 New Gender Options For Users to Choose From (PolicyMic)

–Men In Silicon Valley With Graduate Degrees Make 73 Percent More Than Female Peers (Think Progress)

–The Year I Didn’t Retweet Men: Being mindful about whose voices I amplify (Medium)

–LeanIn.org and Getty Aim to Change Women’s Portrayal in Stock Photos (New York Times)

–For Online Equity We Need Our Net Neutrality Back (Women’s eNews)

–Nina Totenberg: What It Was Like To Be the Only Woman In the Newsroom (Medium)

–Washington Post names Alison Coglianese new reader representative (Poynter)

–Slate Writer Amanda Hess Wins Sidney Award for Examining Online Sexism (10,000 Words)

–Meredith Vieira to Become First Woman to Host Olympics Primetime Show Solo (Variety)

*Note: Due to the author’s travel, this week’s list contains noteworthy links from the past two weeks. No Reading List was posted for the week of 2/16/2013.

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.

Studying women’s representation in digital media: The challenges and limitations

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As we well know, and as the recent Status of Women in the U.S. Media report from the Women’s Media Center illustrates, women have long been underrepresented and misrepresented in traditional media and entertainment.WMCReport2014

Yet, little is still known about how that translates digitally. Continue reading →

Women in journalism: Reading list for 5/5/2013

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

–‘Forbidden Voices’: Female bloggers fight for freedom of speech (CNN)

–’100 Percent Men’ Tumblr highlights gender gap in media, tech, politics (Poynter)

–2013 National Magazine Awards widen scope, and women win (Poynter)

–The International Women’s Media Foundation announces its 2013 Courage in Journalism and Lifetime Achievement Award winners (IWMF)

–‘See you on the other side’: Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)

–WMC Announces A Celebration of the Life of Mary Thom (Women’s Media Center)

–She Works: The Only Woman in the Room (NPR) On Nina Totenberg, NPR’s legal affairs correspondent

–Hollywood’s utter failure to accurately portray female journalists (The Week)

–Sarah Stierch Emerges as Wikipedia’s ‘Go-To Woman’ (Women’s eNews)

–Carolyn Ryan is named New York Times political editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–Jennifer Forsyth is named Wall Street Journal US editor (JimRomenesko.com)

–The Pulitizer-Prize Winner As a Young Feminist (Ms. Blog) On Quiara Alegria Hudes

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.