The Tiny Mechanisms of the Gender Gap
The 2013 VIDA count has arrived – it’s a mixture of good news and bad – and its arrival has me thinking back to something I noticed over the holidays…
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Women We Read This Week
Miriam Markowitz’s “Here Comes Everybody” in The Nation So I know we’ve all read more articles on gender in publishing than we can count,…
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Women We Read this Week
It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed…
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It’s Not Personal
This past fall, I went with seven other third-year nonfiction MFA students from the University of Pittsburgh to New York to pitch editors…
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This Is How It Happens
Try this: Click on our masthead. Look at the photos. Skim the bios. What do you notice?
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A $20,000 Reward For Jonah Lehrer’s Arrogance
This week in my Intro to Nonfiction and Journalism class, I am teaching Rebecca Solnit’s “Men Explain Things to Me.”
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Bummer, Dude.
Yesterday, Outside editorial director Alex Heard tweeted a shot of the magazine’s new cover, and asked, “What do you think? Beautiful? Or too much?”…
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Not There Yet…
If you were a woman in the 1960’s and you worked at Newsweek, chances are you were a researcher, fact checker, or mail girl—but probably not a writer or editor.
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“She came out of nowhere.”
Cheryl Strayed wrote a Facebook post this past week in which she took on the popular claim that she “came out of nowhere” to…
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Byline Gender Gap: Canadian Prisons Edition
The National Post has offered up a short list of the most popular book purchases in Canada’s corrections system. You ready for this? They…
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Undermining Molly Ringwald
The line comes near the end of the paragraph. Reviewer Jessica Pressler has finished eviscerating actor-turned-travel writer Andrew McCarthy’s new memoir, The Longest Way…
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