the guardian reporting:
When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that
he would defect from the New York Times, it began a wave of new, new
money-backed “personal brand” journalism startups that launch in earnest
with FiveThirtyEight on ESPN next week. This was supposed to be a good
thing. “A very luxurious situation” indeed.
When word leaked
a few months later that the billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar
would be joining forces with Glenn Greenwald, he had to clarify that the
then-unnamed First Look Media would amount to something bigger than one
man, a “long-term effort to build a new and exciting platform for journalism” and contribute to “the greater good”....
...
It is not just the four new (and still exciting) breakout projects of
the year: Vice, Quartz, Buzzfeed, Politico, Grantland - these, too, are
led by white men, and filled with more of them.
It is as if
Arianna Huffington never happened. Or as if diversity of leadership and
ownership did not really matter, as long as the data-driven,
responsively designed new news becomes a radical and successful enough
departure from the drab anecdote laden guff put out by those other men.
...Maybe it is the fault of legacy media for failing to make enough women
“marquee journalists” in the first place. Being a “personal brand”
superstar journalist is a harder path for women to negotiate, not just
through the closure of institutional opportunity, but also through the
bruising nature of internet discourse, which can represent an entirely
different and much less civilised clubhouse than the equitable one Nate
Silver is building at ESPN with so much fanaticism that he hires by chart.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/12/journalism-startups-diversity-ezra-klein-nate-silver
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
It's Still a Man's World, Especially at the Top
IPS
By Andrea Lunt
NEW YORK, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) - Long known as a "boy's club", the worldwide media industry continues to struggle with gender equality, with new research showing women are still underrepresented in the majority of newsrooms across the globe.
The study, conducted over a two-year period for the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), covered 170,000 people in the news media and involved interviews with 500 companies in 59 countries.
On average women are underrepresented in all media positions, in sectors ranging from news media ownership, publishing, governance, reporting, editing, photojournalism, and broadcast production.
Among the ranks of reporters, men hold nearly two-thirds of the jobs, compared with 36 percent held by women. However, in senior professional positions, women are nearing parity with 41 percent of the news-gathering, editing and writing roles.
And despite increasing numbers of women in top jobs in journalism over the past two decades, men still dominate executive level positions.
Researchers found 73 percent of the top media jobs were occupied by men and that women faced invisible barriers, or "glass ceilings" to management in 20 of the nations studied, including the UK.
By Andrea Lunt
NEW YORK, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) - Long known as a "boy's club", the worldwide media industry continues to struggle with gender equality, with new research showing women are still underrepresented in the majority of newsrooms across the globe.
The study, conducted over a two-year period for the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), covered 170,000 people in the news media and involved interviews with 500 companies in 59 countries.
On average women are underrepresented in all media positions, in sectors ranging from news media ownership, publishing, governance, reporting, editing, photojournalism, and broadcast production.
Among the ranks of reporters, men hold nearly two-thirds of the jobs, compared with 36 percent held by women. However, in senior professional positions, women are nearing parity with 41 percent of the news-gathering, editing and writing roles.
And despite increasing numbers of women in top jobs in journalism over the past two decades, men still dominate executive level positions.
Researchers found 73 percent of the top media jobs were occupied by men and that women faced invisible barriers, or "glass ceilings" to management in 20 of the nations studied, including the UK.
Wall Street Journal targets female readers
DailyMediaNews
WSJ.com Winning Formula: Target Female Readers
by Erik Sass, Monday, March 21, 2011
...Anyone who has read The Wall Street Journal regularly over the years can't help but notice a decided shift in the tone and content of the print newspaper and the Web site, which has grown to include more non-business content: culture, lifestyles, leisure activities, and the like.
It's all part of a strategy to make the paper more accessible, increase the audience, and attract new advertisers. One of the biggest changes is more content targeting female readers, although a new online section entitled "Journal Women" has since been quietly scrapped.
...Then February brought another opinion piece guaranteed to stir watercooler banter and online debate: in "Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" in which author Kay S. Hymowitz argued that men are increasingly enjoying an extended adolescence through their 20s, putting off their adult responsibilities and leaving potential female partners in the lurch.
...Still, it remains to be seen whether this new focus on issues of interest to women will translate into a long-term increase in the number of female readers.
According to the WSJ.com's own stats from May 2010, digital readership is still stuck at a 75%-25% male-female ratio; more recently, Quantcast has it at 69%-31%, suggesting that a shift may indeed be underway. The newspaper's print readership was 62.3% male and 37.7% female in fall 2009, according to MRI.
MH
WSJ.com Winning Formula: Target Female Readers
by Erik Sass, Monday, March 21, 2011
...Anyone who has read The Wall Street Journal regularly over the years can't help but notice a decided shift in the tone and content of the print newspaper and the Web site, which has grown to include more non-business content: culture, lifestyles, leisure activities, and the like.
It's all part of a strategy to make the paper more accessible, increase the audience, and attract new advertisers. One of the biggest changes is more content targeting female readers, although a new online section entitled "Journal Women" has since been quietly scrapped.
...Then February brought another opinion piece guaranteed to stir watercooler banter and online debate: in "Where Have All the Good Men Gone?" in which author Kay S. Hymowitz argued that men are increasingly enjoying an extended adolescence through their 20s, putting off their adult responsibilities and leaving potential female partners in the lurch.
...Still, it remains to be seen whether this new focus on issues of interest to women will translate into a long-term increase in the number of female readers.
According to the WSJ.com's own stats from May 2010, digital readership is still stuck at a 75%-25% male-female ratio; more recently, Quantcast has it at 69%-31%, suggesting that a shift may indeed be underway. The newspaper's print readership was 62.3% male and 37.7% female in fall 2009, according to MRI.
MH
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