Good news: Women now make up over two-thirds of journalism majors. Bad news: Regardless of their degree and passion for the field, women are credited with less than 40 percent of bylines and anchor jobs. Why are all the jobs going to men?
Ah, Iris West: Jitters barista by day, intrepid chronicler of the Flash's superspeed shenanigans by night. But while The Flash has been off the air, we've been thinking that maybe Iris isn't Central City's best Citizen Journalist. In fact, she's actually the worst blogger on the internet, which is quite an achievement.
Over the past couple weeks, the Washington Post has done a thorough job blowing battleship-sized holes in the searing Rolling Stone story about Jackie, the woman who says she was gang-raped at the University of Virginia two years ago and now finds herself at the center of one of the gnarliest journalistic shitstorms…
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As of last Thursday, no one at the Times knew about Good Burger. As of today, at least one person at the Times has been forced to learn about Good Burger.
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Say goodbye to women in major leadership roles at the Washington Post.
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New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has updated a post she published this morning regarding Alessandra Stanley's wildly racist article about Shonda Rhimes where she repeatedly called her an Angry Black Woman.
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Mark Finkelstein, a NewsBusters editor dedicated to "COMBATING LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS" who "spent ten days in Iraq" once, has a scoop: MSNBC host Chris Hayes was really sexist on the air last night. Which is true, if you don't know who Girl Talk is. Mark Finkelstein does not know who Girl Talk is.
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There are many media outlets competing for your attention on today's celebrity gossip scene, but only one with a highly-trafficked website, a hit TV show, a tour bus and a "reserved" computer at the Los Angeles county courthouse: TMZ.
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ABC has announced that World News's Diane Sawyer will be stepping down from her role as anchor in order to pursue other roles with the network. Replacing her will be Good Morning America cohost George Stephanopoulos for breaking stories and David Muir for day-to-day anchoring duties, thus returning network nightly…
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A shooting involving two female journalists in Afghanistan has left one dead and another in stable condition.
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Who does America think is the most likable (and recognizable) name in news? The answer may surprise you.
Ninety-two years ago, a 34-year-old Chicago man named Joseph Wozniak woke up missing one of his balls, which had been surgically removed by hoodlums.
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In a bizarre turn of events, the Los Angles Times has fired one of their reporters for inaccurately reporting the number of Title IX violations at Occidental College and for having an inappropriate relationship with a source for that story.
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After a student newspaper published a feature on rape culture, district officials in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin have set new rules governing the subject matter that appears in the publication.
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An NBC reporter is accused of pushing a post-game interview with U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller too far, eventually causing the athlete to break down in tears over repeated questions about the death of his brother.
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The cable news network announced on Monday that it was adding Joy-Ann Reid permanently to its programming schedule. Reid joins Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton, Karen Finney, Tamron Hall, Touré, and Craig Melvin as the network's seventh African American host. She's also MSNBC's 12th female anchor.
Time Magazine can only illustrate mindfulness / meditation with white blondes closing their eyes. 2003 - 2014. pic.twitter.com/xFfDZKbpDZ
— David Gelles (@dgelles) January 23, 2014
Forget your dreams of a non-robot overlord filled future, because shit just got real. A couple of TIME reporters stumbled upon a telemarketing robot who is apparently designed so well, it actually knows how to lie and tell people it's a real person.
Peter Kaplan, the editor of the New York Observer for fifteen years, whose talent and affability helped the publication offer a smart, insider's view of New York City's elite, died of cancer on Friday at the age of 59.
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A Guardian writer recently described one of the subjects of a documentary about teenagers and the internet as a girl who "let herself be gang raped" to get her Blackberry back. When readers freaked out, the paper changed the phrasing to "let herself be sexually assaulted." Seriously?