Andrew Beaujon
May 3, 2013
10:24 am
The Huffington Post |
Jezebel |
ASME
At the American Society of Magazine Editors awards Thursday night,
Dahlia Lithwick won for commentary and Pamela Colloff won for feature writing. No women won either category last year because
no women were nominated in them.
ASME Chief Executive Sid Holt told Poynter last year that criticism of the awards' nominations, which failed to nominate women in the feature writing, reporting, profile writing, essays and criticism or columns and commentary categories, was "
kind of silly." And yet
this year's nominations were
far more representative of the industry they survey.
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It's depressing that 'women write good stuff' is news, and it feels silly to congratulate ASME for doing its job," Katie J.M. Baker wrote in Jezebel earlier this month, "but it's a dramatic improvement, and we're psyched."
The awards' categories still consider magazines aimed at men in "News, Sports and Entertainment Magazines," while it considers magazines aimed at women in the "Service and Fashion Magazines" category.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 16, 2013
4:23 pm
Discussion of the
winners and finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prizes was muted Monday, as news producers and consumers turned their attention to the bombings in Boston. But 24 hours later, enough time has passed for a little journo-navel-gazing:
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What does it take for women to win Pulitzers? Before 1991, a graduate degree and a Northeastern upbringing helped, University of Missouri professor Yong Volz and Chinese University of Hong Kong professor Francis L. F. Lee write in a new study. The study,
which I first wrote about in October, was published by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly earlier this month.
Those advantages compensated for a historical bias against women both in newsrooms and in prize competitions, Volz and Lee write. Statistics showed them the importance of those advantages lessened after 1991, but "
gender disadvantage has not completely disappeared," they write.
Even after 1991, only 26.9% of all Pulitzer winners in journalism were females. The percentage is lower than the percentage of females in American newsrooms, which stands at about 33%.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2013
11:57 am
Javier Manzano was "shocked" when he found out
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”
Freelancers have won Pulitzer prizes in the past, but not nearly as often as full-time journalists have. Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler told Poynter that it's been 17 years since a freelance photographer won a Pulitzer. (Two freelance photographers -- Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh -- won in 1996.)
Manzano won for a photo of two rebel soldiers guarding their sniper’s nest in Aleppo, as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Karmel Jabl, the neighborhood in which Manzano captured the photo, separates many of the major battlegrounds in Aleppo.
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Roy Peter Clark
Apr. 15, 2013
3:42 pm
My usual pride in the Poynter Institute derives from its benign influence on journalists across the globe. Such influence may flow from a seminar or conference, an online course, or work published on this website. We teach journalism in the … Read more
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Taylor Miller Thomas
Apr. 15, 2013
3:26 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 15, 2013
2:01 pm
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Roy J. Harris Jr.
Apr. 15, 2013
7:00 am
About a half-dozen journalism organizations have already weighed in on their versions of 2012’s best reporting, commentary and press photography. Today at 3 p.m. ET, it’s the Pulitzer Prize Board’s turn — for the 97th time — to announce the … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 10, 2013
11:17 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 27, 2013
11:57 am
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Mark Briggs
Mar. 15, 2013
12:46 pm
What is innovation in journalism today? I heavily debated that question with Dan Gillmor and Retha Hill earlier this month while judging the Scripps Howard Awards at Poynter.
The 44 entries in the “Digital Innovation” category we were judging were … Read more
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