February 8th, 2013
onaissues
Lately there has been a lot of discussion around conferences in the tech world and the amount of female representation on the panels… I don’t speak at conferences and my participation of them is always as an attendee and most of the discussion going on seems to be around what speakers can do. Which got me thinking about my role as an attendee and what I can do to help change the ratio. Is there an Attendee Pledge equivalent of the Speaker Pledge perhaps? We as attendees can vote with our feet by not attending a conference or event that doesn’t have an accurate representation of women.

We’ve had the Speaker Pledge, what about the Attendee Pledge? | Made by Many

ONA works hard to ensure that we have diverse representation at our conferences and we encourage others to as well. We’re starting to plan ONA13 now, and will stand by our commitment to bring in diverse voices. Last year, Jim Bettinger of the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford commended ONA12: 

Too many journalism conferences I have attended have been largely male, largely white when it comes to speakers and panelists. ONA executive director Jane McDonnell and Innovation/Community Engagement Director Jeanne Brooks and the program committee made sure that was not the case here. They succeeded. My rough count shows about two out of five presenters were women and one out of four were people of color. Note to other journalism conference organizers: It can be done. You just have to want to do it.

7 notes·
news journalism gender women change the ratio Speaker Pledge Attendees
February 6th, 2013
onaissues
Zoom Covering rape responsibly | Women’s Media Center Image: A word cloud generated from some of the headlines calling what happened in the Air Force; Steubenville, Ohio; and at the Horace Mann School and Penn State University “sex scandals.” Via Womens’s Media Center

Covering rape responsibly | Women’s Media Center

Image: A word cloud generated from some of the headlines calling what happened in the Air Force; Steubenville, Ohio; and at the Horace Mann School and Penn State University “sex scandals.” Via Womens’s Media Center

4 notes·
News journalism ethics rape women gender
January 29th, 2013
onaissues
Zoom techladymafia: The women of Wikipedia: Closing the site’s giant gender gap

techladymafia:

The women of Wikipedia: Closing the site’s giant gender gap

Reblogged from Tech LadyMafia
17 notes·
news gender women wikipedia Tech
November 28th, 2012
onaissues
Poynter. » Why Washington Post journalist first wrote about her rape, 28 years later

Mallary Tenore examines how journalists report on rape after Melinda Henneberger, reporter at the Washington Post, decided to share her story about being raped years ago.

One in six women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime, and 97 percent of rapists will never spend a day in jail, recent statistics show. Based on those figures, someone in your newsroom has been sexually assaulted.

Being aware of this reality informs our decisions when we assign stories and report them. When we understand that sexual assault is common, we’re less likely to make assumptions about our colleagues and our sources. We may also be less inclined to make comments that belittle the severity of sexual assault — and more inclined to cover it as an ongoing issue rather than as a one-time event.

Too often, journalists write about sexual assaults right after they occur and neglect to write follow-ups that highlight how traumatic these assaults can be. 

Read more on Poynter.

220 notes·
gender journalism news women rape sexual assault
November 20th, 2012
onaissues
IMWF accepting applications for Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier Grant Program

The International Women’s Media Foundation will award three $20,000 grants to entrepreneurial women journalists proposing to use digital media in innovative ways to deliver the news. In addition to seed funding, the program provides coaching from leading entrepreneurs and digital news media experts.

This is a great opportunity. The International Women’s Media Foundation has already awarded six of these $20,000 grants to women journalists so they can launch their own  digital media startups. Now they’re accepting applications for the next round of grants. Apply!

7 notes·
news journalism startups gender women
October 25th, 2012
onaissues
Zoom futurejournalismproject: Gendered News From entertainment to finance to politics to sports, the Guardian Datablog explores how women and men are published in leading UK news sources, and how often articles by gender are shared across social networks. In the interactive they’ve produced, you can sort across different criteria as well as drill deeper into specific publications and their sections. At a macro level, UK news publishing is much like what we see in the United States: it’s dominated by men with less than 30% of news articles published by women across the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Guardian. Drill down a bit, or look at gender participation by subject area, and you see women dominating topics like “lifestyle” and “entertainment” and men dominating, well, most everything else. But the Datablog isn’t just looking at who gets published, but who gets heard. You would think it’s one and the same but with the decline of the newspaper front page — and the Web site home page — as a conversation driver, it’s the social ecosystem of readers and their sharing habits that drives audience engagement and interaction. Via the Guardian: Online, who gets heard is determined by an ecosystem of actors: individuals sharing on Facebook and Twitter, link-sharing communities, personal algorithms on Google News, and citizen media curators. Newspapers only offer part of the information supply; we readers decide who’s heard every time we click, share or use our own voice… …Of course, the reach of an article is much more complicated than likes and shares. What gets seen is often dependent on the time of day and the influence of who shares a link. The definition of likes and shares also changes. Since our measurements in early August, Facebook’s counters have been changed to track links sent within private messages. This year, newsrooms experimented with Facebook social readers and tablet apps to grow their audiences. Bernhard Rieder’s network diagram of the Guardian’s Facebook page illustrates yet another social channel for news. Publishers sometimes can’t agree on what their own data means. Despite these limitations, data on likes and shares offer the best outside picture of audience interest in women’s writing in the news. Read through for analysis and more about the methodology and tools used to suss out the data. As usual, the Guardian also lets you download the data so you can work with it yourself. Image: Screenshot, UK News Gender Ranking: What They Publish vs What Readers Share, via The Guardian. Select to embiggen.

futurejournalismproject:

Gendered News

From entertainment to finance to politics to sports, the Guardian Datablog explores how women and men are published in leading UK news sources, and how often articles by gender are shared across social networks.

In the interactive they’ve produced, you can sort across different criteria as well as drill deeper into specific publications and their sections.

At a macro level, UK news publishing is much like what we see in the United States: it’s dominated by men with less than 30% of news articles published by women across the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Guardian.

Drill down a bit, or look at gender participation by subject area, and you see women dominating topics like “lifestyle” and “entertainment” and men dominating, well, most everything else.

But the Datablog isn’t just looking at who gets published, but who gets heard.

You would think it’s one and the same but with the decline of the newspaper front page — and the Web site home page — as a conversation driver, it’s the social ecosystem of readers and their sharing habits that drives audience engagement and interaction.

Via the Guardian:

Online, who gets heard is determined by an ecosystem of actors: individuals sharing on Facebook and Twitter, link-sharing communities, personal algorithms on Google News, and citizen media curators. Newspapers only offer part of the information supply; we readers decide who’s heard every time we click, share or use our own voice…

…Of course, the reach of an article is much more complicated than likes and shares. What gets seen is often dependent on the time of day and the influence of who shares a link.

The definition of likes and shares also changes. Since our measurements in early August, Facebook’s counters have been changed to track links sent within private messages. This year, newsrooms experimented with Facebook social readers and tablet apps to grow their audiences. Bernhard Rieder’s network diagram of the Guardian’s Facebook page illustrates yet another social channel for news. Publishers sometimes can’t agree on what their own data means.

Despite these limitations, data on likes and shares offer the best outside picture of audience interest in women’s writing in the news.

Read through for analysis and more about the methodology and tools used to suss out the data. As usual, the Guardian also lets you download the data so you can work with it yourself.

Image: Screenshot, UK News Gender Ranking: What They Publish vs What Readers Share, via The Guardian. Select to embiggen.

Reblogged from The FJP
51 notes·
news journalism gender
October 15th, 2012
onaissues
The Women’s Media Center Announces Social Media Award Nominees | Women's Media Center

Public voting is now open for the 2012 Women’s Media Center Social Media Award. Learn about the nominees and vote on womensmediacenter.com. The winner will be honored at the Women’s Media Awards on November 13 in New York City. Sady Doyle, founder of the anti-sexist blog TigerBeatdown.com, was honored last year.

1 note·
news journalism blogging women gender social media
October 15th, 2012
onaissues
Margaret Sullivan reminds rowdy NYT freelancer he’s ‘highly replaceable’ | Poynter.

In a blog post, New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan takes Times Magazine freelancer Andrew Goldman to the woodshed for a Twitter exchange that showed “hideous misjudgment” on his part. Confronted by author Jennifer Weiner about a question she thought was sexist in an interview Goldman conducted, he insulted her and compared another critic to Stalin before apologizing and deactivating his Twitter account.


5 notes·
news journalism gender
October 11th, 2012
onaissues
With journalism program enrollment often in the range of 60-70 percent women, it’s common for my classes to be majority female. All of them recognize the value of technological skills — they wouldn’t be taking the class otherwise.
Cindy Royal: Journalism schools need to get better at teaching tech where the girls are » Nieman Journalism Lab
3 notes·
news journalism gender women tech coding
October 10th, 2012
onaissues
Zoom An excerpt from MBA Online’s new infographic on women in tech. Head to MBA online to see that full graphic.  Amy Webb identified women as one of the Top 10 Tech Trends this year in her extremely popular ONA12 session. See archived video of Top 10 Tech Trends on the ONA12 site. 

An excerpt from MBA Online’s new infographic on women in tech. Head to MBA online to see that full graphic. 

Amy Webb identified women as one of the Top 10 Tech Trends this year in her extremely popular ONA12 session. See archived video of Top 10 Tech Trends on the ONA12 site. 

11 notes·
gender news tech women ONA12
Loading tweets...

@ONA

There are any number of pressing media issues in the digital age -- we're sure you can come up with a handful without breaking a sweat. ONA Issues is your platform to define them, share them, explore them and get a better fix on how they impact the work you do. Here we'll look to you for your perspectives and conversations and help jump-start discussions by posting insightful reporting, commentary and analysis from anywhere and everywhere. We're here to listen and learn. Join us.

Networks