Lara Logan’s New Assignment: D.C.
6/25/08
NY Times: Lara Logan, the CBS News chief foreign correspondent who loudly decried the lack of media coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan last week, will no longer be based overseas, the network said Wednesday. Ms. Logan will now be based in Washington, D.C. with a new title: chief foreign affairs correspondent.

Democrats in Delicate Talks to Unify Party
6/26/08
NY Times: With the help of one of Washington’s best-connected lawyers, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are negotiating a thicket of complicated issues, like how to repay Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt and her role at the Democratic convention.

Pay Gap Between Sexes To Go Public
6/26/08
Reuters, London: Companies will be encouraged to publish the pay gap between their male and female employees under proposed laws to encourage women to complain when they are underpaid, the government said on Thursday.

HuffPo Readers Choose Ifill or Maddow to Anchor Meet the Press
6/25/08
Marie Wilson, Huffington Post: To anchor Meet the Press, Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, easily led the pack among Huffington Post readers, with Rachel Maddow, host of Air America Radio’s Rachel Maddow Show and political analyst for MSBNC, coming in a close second.

NAB Defends FCC’s ‘Viewability’ Order
6/25/08
Broadcasting and Cable: Broadcasters took aim at cable programmers attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s “viewability” order, which requires cable operators to carry must-carry TV stations in analog and digital if necessary to give all of their customers viewable signals after the transition to digital.

Gender, Race, Class, Age… and the Media
6/26/08
Huffington Post: The Paley Center for Media in New York City was the location for a three-hour forum entitled “From Soundbites to Solutions: Bias Punditry and the Press in 2008 Election. The moving forces behind the forum were The White House Project, The Women’s Media Center, and The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

Entrepreneurs Aim for Million-Dollar Revenue Gap
6/26/08
Women’s eNews: In “Make Mine a Million” contests, female entrepreneurs pitch business plans for reaching and surpassing the million-dollar revenue mark, where male-owned businesses predominate.

Intern or Die
6/25/08
The New Republic: The field of journalism offers a prime example of the power of the internship. At policy magazines like TNR, at glossies like Vanity Fair and Vogue, and at daily newspapers and television news programs, a couple months of grunt work for no or low pay is virtually a prerequisite for future employment.

It Started With A Kiss
6/26/08
BBC News, UK: Heinz has withdrawn an advert for its Deli Mayo brand one week into a five-week schedule. It depicts a man with a New York accent and dressed like a chef, making sandwiches in a homely British family kitchen. The father says a fleeting goodbye but is summoned back by the chef for a more intimate farewell – a brief kiss.

A Weapon Of War: What Can Be Done To Stop The Crisis Of Sexual Violence?
6/25/08
Newsweek:Sexual violence against women and children hurts more than just the individuals or families involved. It also undermines a country’s economic and social stability. A recent meeting of the United Nations Security Council, chaired by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, addressed this critical issue.

Reprieve For Abused Mexican Women
6/25/08
Toronto Star, CN: In a series of stunning decisions, the Federal Court of Canada has jumped to the defense of Mexican women trying to stay in Canada to escape violence and abuse.

Merck Cancer Vaccine Not Cleared For Older Women
6/26/08
Reuters via Topix.net: Merck had applied for the use of Gardasil in women ages 27 through 45. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a letter regarding the application that it has completed its review and there are “issues” that preclude approval within the expected review time frame, Merck said.

Gene Test Gives Early Alert For Breast Cancer
6/26/08
The Guardian, UK: All women could soon be offered a genetic test which would tell them whether they were likely or unlikely to contract breast cancer, scientists will say today.

Fertility Treatment Drops Following Ban On Anonymous Sperm Donation
6/26/08
The Guardian, UK:The number of women treated with donated sperm fell by nearly one-fifth, from 2,727 in 2005 to 2,107 in 2006 – the first full year after the change in the law, according to figures obtained by the Times.

Home Made
6/25/08
Baltimore City Paper: Disenchanted with a medical system that treats birth as an emergency instead of an emergence, seeking an alternative to the tubes and wires and monitors of a high-tech birth, some women are stepping outside of the hospital to have their babies.

Actors Strike Could Bring Curtain Down On Film Productions
6/25/08
Chicago Tribune: Movies could be derailed if actors and studios can’t negotiate a new contract by the end of the month, when the current Screen Actors Guild pact expires. Despite several weeks of negotiations, there’s growing pessimism throughout Hollywood about the odds that differences will be resolved soon.

U.S. Olympic Swim Trials | Bolder strokes
6/26/08
Seattle Times: Tara Kirk, who turns 26 in July, is not the same intense swimmer from Bremerton who finished sixth in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Athens Games. Now she’s eyeing an Olympic Gold Medal.

Sorenstam To Begin Her Final U.S. Women’s Open
6/25/08
Kansas City Star: Sorenstam announced in May that she was retiring after this season, with plans on starting a family and spending more time on her many golf-related ventures.