Posts Tagged women in journalism

By Courtney Baxter • 10 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Misogyny kills.

Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism.

Elliott Rodger was influenced by MRAs.

News media: don’t gloss over the misogyny and sexual entitlement behind the mass shooting. 

Misogyny kills.

Let’s call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism.

Elliott Rodger was influenced by MRAs.

News media: don’t gloss over the misogyny and sexual entitlement behind the mass shooting. 
By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Meet Saudi Arabia’s first female editor-in-chief of a national newspaper

Congrats to Somayya Jabarti! The Guardian reports:

Somayya Jabarti, a former deputy editor, has become the new boss at the helm of the Jeddah-based English daily Saudi Gazette, the paper’s departing head has announced.

“There’s a crack that has been made in the glass ceiling. And I’m hoping it will be made into a door,” Jabarti said after starting her new job, according to quotes carried by Al Arabiya News.

She added: “Being the first Saudi woman [editor-in-chief] is going to be double the responsibility … One’s actions will reflect upon my fellow Saudi women.”

Congrats to Somayya Jabarti! The Guardian reports:

Somayya Jabarti, a former deputy editor, has become the new boss at the helm of the Jeddah-based English daily Saudi Gazette, the paper’s departing head has announced.

“There’s a crack that ...
By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

More on Bradley Manning and the “transgender defense”.

“The ‘Baby Veronica’ case currently before the Supreme Court is many things…What it’s not is a case that feminists have been on the right side of.”

Another Onion #fail, this time with regards to statutory rape and incest.

Oh, goody. The Archbishop won’t deny communion to Irish Catholic politicians and Parliament members who voted for a controversial law that allows abortion under certain circumstances.

Yes, this Merrill Lynch intern’s death is tragic. No, he was not performing “slavery in the city”.

Two young journos are highlighting longform journalism written by women.

“Tweeting as research” is the new “intern was tweeting.”

Second wave Disney Princesses for ...

More on Bradley Manning and the “transgender defense”.

“The ‘Baby Veronica’ case currently before the Supreme Court is many things…What it’s not is a case that feminists have been on the right side of.”

Another Onion ...
By Anna • 11 years ago

The Feministing Five: Akiba Solomon

This past February, Colorlines announced Akiba Solomon as its new managing editor. And it’s no surprise. She’s been writing about race and gender for years now. She spent the early part of her years at print magazines like The Source and Essence. She eventually made her way to online journalism (and candidly speaks with me about how this switch sometimes isn’t a choice for journalists of color).

Over the past two years, she’s run the Gender Matters column on the site where she’s discussed SlutWalk and black feminism, the abortion-as-black-genocide lobby,  and even Blue Ivy and the alleged ugliness of blackness. She has a brave way of bringing the personal into the political, evident ...

This past February, Colorlines announced Akiba Solomon as its new managing editor. And it’s no surprise. She’s been writing about race and gender for years now. She spent the early part of her years at ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Quote of the Day: “What’s a pretty girl like you doing reading those?”

I guess someone didn’t get the memo about the existence of female reporters?

Ed Hartzog, a Community Board 8 member who once worked for Anthony Weiner’s campaign, has not widely publicized his candidacy, but he has raised nearly $8,000 since throwing his hat into the ring about a month ago, according to documents listed on the New York City Campaign Finance Board website. About half the donations have come from out of state, the documents show.

When a DNAinfo.com New York reporter asked about the campaign finance documents recently, Hartzog replied, “What’s a pretty girl like you doing reading those?”

Asked about his comments later, he added, “I hope for goodness sake that my flippant comment isn’t going to be part of the story. I ...

I guess someone didn’t get the memo about the existence of female reporters?

Ed Hartzog, a Community Board 8 member who once worked for Anthony Weiner’s campaign, has not widely publicized his candidacy, but he has raised nearly $8,000 ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 12 years ago

Student journalist describes being sexually assaulted by mob in Egypt

*Trigger warning*

Another horrifying sexual assault against a woman journalist in Egypt is spotlighting the epidemic of harassment in the country–as well as the risks lady reporters regularly face across the globe. The attack against Natasha Smith, a British student journalist working on a documentary about women’s rights, during the post-election celebrations this past weekend closely echoes the attacks on Lara Logan and Mona Eltahawy last year.

She described the whole experience on her blog:

But in a split second, everything changed. Men had been groping me for a while, but suddenly, something shifted. I found myself being dragged from my male friend, groped all over, with increasing force and aggression. I screamed. I could see what was happening ...

*Trigger warning*

Another horrifying sexual assault against a woman journalist in Egypt is spotlighting the epidemic of harassment in the country–as well as the risks lady reporters regularly face across the globe. The attack against Natasha Smith, ...