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Women in journalism: Reading list 9/2/2012

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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.

Political Coverage

The Women’s Media Center and The 4th Estate Project partnered to release new findings on the gender gap in political coverage. According to an analysis of coverage of the 2012 presidential election at 35 newspapers, men wrote 76 percent of articles during the GOP primary period (Jan. 1 to April 15) and 72 percent of the articles during the general election period thus far (April 16 to Aug. 25). Here are related articles and the press release from the Women’s Media Center:

–Three-Quarters of Newspapers’ Presidential Coverage is Written by Men (Women’s Media Center)

–Men are Telling the Stories of Election 2012 (4thEstate.net)

-Male Journalists May Dominate Campaign Coverage, But Look What Women Write About (XX Factor)

–Three-Quarters Of The Presidential News You Read Is Written By Men (Forbes Woman)

General Interest Links

–Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any (Columbia Journalism Review)

–RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’ (Talking Points Memo)

–CNN Camerawoman [Patricia Carroll] On Harassment At RNC: ‘I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all’ (TV Newser)

–Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave (Think Progress)

–‘Good Girls’ Tells of Women’s Fight for Rights at Newsweek (New York Times)

–On the frontline with female reporters (The Media Online)

–“Our World, My Voice: GlobalGirls Talk Politics” Blog Campaign (Global Girl Media)

-Is Sexual Violence on TV OK if the Heroine Is Tough? (XX Factor)

–The Feministing Five: Rose Aguilar (Feministing)

–Robin Roberts Moves Last Day on “GMA” Before Medical Leave to Thursday (ABC News)

–Wendy Warren leaves Philly.com for NBCWashington.com (Poynter)

–Patch loses communications director Janine Iamunno (JimRomenesko.com)

–Sullivan says goodbye to Buffalo News to become NYT ombud (Poynter)

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Women in journalism: Reading list 8/26/2012

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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

–Every Woman’s Story Counts — Including Yours (Huffington Post)

–Minority employment up in TV and radio, widening gap with print (Poynter)

–Women’s Media Center To Launch Live Talk Radio Show (Women’s Media Center)

–Abramson 5th on Forbes ‘Power Women’ list (Politico)

–Japanese Journalist’s Final Report From Syria Is Released After Her Death (NY Times The Lede) On the passing of Mika Yamamoto

–Photographing Violence Against Women, Even in Norway (NY Times Lens Blog)

–Angelina Jolie gave NBC an Ann Curry ultimatum? (SheKnows)

–Megan Garvey named assistant managing editor, digital (LA Times)

–In internet time, two months = nearly eight years (by Staci Kramer at paidContent)

–Spiers’ last issue of ‘The New York Observer’ (Capital New York)

–Ex-NPR Hill reporter: Lied to daily (Politico) On Andrea Seabrook

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 5/28/2012

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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

–Forbes.com contributor deletes post about Sheryl Sandberg after people call it sexist (Poynter)

–The Lazy Stereotyping of Executive Women: A Case Study (Forbes Woman)

–Hustler Magazine Sparks Rage With a Rude Image of Pundit S.E. Cupp
 (Daily Beast)

–Gloria Steinem, Women’s Media Center Denounce Hustler Attack On Conservative Commentator (Women’s Media Center)

–The Five Most Sexist/Misogynistic Print Ads From The Last Five Years (BuzzFeed)

–FAIR numbers (OpEd Project Byline Blog) About a byline count of op-eds in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times

–Geena Davis battles media’s portrayal of women (The Tennessean)

–A New York Times Whodunit (New York Magazine) About the exit of Janet Robinson

–Huffington Post Gets Its First Publisher (Janet Balis) Amid Broader AOL Changes (Ad Age)

–Katharine Zaleski to leave Washington Post for NY video startup (Poynter)

–She’s Making News: Paula Zahn (Paley Center)

–Walters shares wisdom from her ‘most thoughtful’ interviewees  (Yale News)

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 5/13/2012

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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 We Look Like: A Comic About Women in Media (Truth-out)

–What We’re Really Talking About When We Talk About Hillary Clinton Without Makeup (Jezebel)

–Among Media Trailblazers (HuffingtonPost) – On Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century

–Advocacy Group Asks ‘Why Kardashians?’ on Twitter (Mashable) – MissRepresentation holds a Twitter conversation about the “objectification of women in American media and culture.”

–Applications for Progressive Women’s Voices are now open (Women’s Media Center) – Application deadline for training 11:59 p.m. June 4

–Reporter, fired for stripping, charges gender discrimination (CNN)

–Books: Journalist-author Anna Quindlen industry pioneer (Sacramento Bee)

–NPR’s deputy managing editor of investigations departs (Poynter)

–Robin Roberts interview with Obama a coup for ‘Good Morning America’ (Poynter)

–Tamron Hall Reams Tim Carney, Cuts His Mic For Accusing Her Of ‘Media Trick’ (Mediaite)

–Cate Barron succeeds David Newhouse as editor of The Patriot-News (PennLive.com)

–Washington Post graphics director Hannah Fairfield to New York Times (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 3/31/12

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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

–WMC Releases Media Guide for Gender Neutral Coverage of Women Candidates and Politicians (Women’s Media Center)

–JAWS members offer interview tips (Journalism & Women Symposium)

–OU will use alumna’s endowment for scholarships for female journalists (The Oklahoma Daily)

–Miriam O’Reilly: There was seething resentment when I went back to BBC (The Guardian)

–Joanne Zerkel remembered as ‘a champion for women’  (Southtown Star)

–Priscilla L. Buckley, steward of conservative National Review and sister of William, dies (Washington Post)

–Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview (NPR)

–Christiane Amanpour Returns To CNN: Network Releases New Promo For ‘Amanpour’ (Huffington Post)

–From waitressing to writing for The New York Times (Community College Success)

–For a Week, Couric Will Co-Host ‘Good Morning America’ (New York Times)

–Journalist/Multi-Tasker Sarah Tressler Gives First Interview Since Being Outed as a Stripper (Jezebel)

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.