It’s Web 101 For This Experienced Intern
3/6/09
LA Times: Lois Draegin, an accomplished magazine editor, lost her six-figure job at TV Guide last spring and is now, at 55, an unpaid intern at wowOwow.com, a fledgling website with columns and stories that target accomplished women older than 40.

Ginsburg Plans To Stay On High Court For Years, Despite Cancer
3/5/09
USA Today: One month after her surgery for pancreatic cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Thursday she expects to be on the Supreme Court for several more years. In an interview, she also vividly recalled why, on her second day back on the bench, she attended President Obama’s televised speech to a joint session of Congress.

In Baby Steps, Saudi Women Rise Up
3/6/09
AFP via Google: It is not exactly Riyadh Spring, but Saudi Arabia’s first female minister and the free mixing of the sexes at a recent conference are giving Saudi women hope that some of the world’s tightest restrictions on their gender may be easing.

ProPublica Goes Pro-Am
3/5/09
Columbia Journalism Review: Big news today: ProPublica is delving into the world of pro-am journalism. Amanda Michel, who formerly directed OffTheBus, The Huffington Post’s pro-am journalism project, will join the investigative outfit as its editor of distributed reporting.

Iran Urged To Free Jailed U.S. Journalist
3/5/09
NPR: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the Iranian government Thursday to release imprisoned freelance journalist Roxana Saberi. Speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Clinton said Saberi should be allowed to return to the United States.

The Danger Of Losing The Ethnic Media
3/5/09
Boston Globe: Ethnic media play a vital role in the communities they serve and do a great deal of unrecognized work for journalism.

Financial Journalism And Its Critics
3/5/09
Dealscape: Over the past few months, there’s been a steady yammering about failures of financial journalism to predict the current mess. Mostly, that’s fine. But the complaints also raise expectations that are unrealistic, and that indulge in a sort of wishful thinking, often with a political spin.

Craigslist Sued Over Sex Ads By Cook County Sheriff
3/5/09
AP via Huffington Post: Cook County’s sheriff filed a lawsuit Thursday against Craigslist, saying the popular online classifieds site not only allows the solicitation of prostitution but has actively created “the largest source of prostitution in America.”

Clinton’s Presence Felt At Summit
3/5/09
Politico.com: Hillary Rodham Clinton may have been on another continent Thursday, but she was very much a presence at the White House health care forum.

In Hard Times, Women’s Day Spotlights Money
3/6/09
Women’s eNews: For this year’s International Women’s Day some activists in Washington are calling for more investment in women to curb further economic decline. Health, history and antiviolence campaigns are also on the agenda this whole month.

Colorado State Senators Argue Contraception Kills
3/6/09
RH Reality Check: The proposed Birth Control Protection Act in Colorado would stem future assaults on contraception by conservative lawmakers and religious activists who argue birth control pills are an “abortifacient.”

Gay Marriage Backers Grilled By California Judges
3/5/09
Reuters: California’s Supreme Court justices on Thursday grilled lawyers seeking to overturn a ban on gay marriage, signaling to some that the court would uphold the state constitutional amendment on same-sex weddings passed by voters in November.

Protesters Say Archbishop Mishandled Abuse Scandal
3/6/09
NY Times: Mr. Isely, the Midwestern director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said that Archbishop Dolan was loved in Milwaukee, but that after first meeting with sexual abuse victims, he largely dismissed their attempts to bring members of the clergy to justice.

Women Hold Just 18 Percent Of Parliament Seats
3/5/09
AP via International Herald Tribune: Women hold just over 18 percent of the seats in parliaments around the world, a 60 percent increase since 1995 but a long distance from equality with men in national legislative bodies, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said Thursday in its annual report card.

CHILE:  Progress For Women, But Still A Yawning Gap
3/6/09
IPS: With one year to go in office, women’s groups and civil society organisations report positively on Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s government policies to promote gender equity. But there is still much to be done, they say.

This Is What Religious Objection To Abortion Looks Like?
3/6/09
RH Reality Check: A Catholic bishop in Brazil says the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl, pregnant as a result of incest and who had an abortion, should be excommunicated.

LABOUR-MEXICO: “They First Asked If I Was Pregnant”
3/5/09
IPS: When Paulina was interviewed for a job at a local Wal-Mart in the Mexican capital, the first thing she was asked was whether she was pregnant – a question she did not know at the time was illegal.

Congo-Kinshasa: Treating The Sexually Abused In South Kivu
3/5/09
IRIN via AllAfrica.com: In Bukavu, the main town in South Kivu Province of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Panzi referral hospital receives six to eight women daily who have experienced sexual violence.

For The Women Of Swat
3/4/09
DAWN: It is quite ironic that at a time when the UN is focusing on eliminating violence against women, the Pakistan government and the army have sought to buy peace in Swat by surrendering in this once idyllic valley many of the rights and freedoms women have won over the years in the country.

What Keeps Women Off The Walls Of Our Museums
3/6/09
Globe and Mail: For anyone who hasn’t set foot in an art museum lately, Pamela Tanner Boll’s engaging documentary Who Does She Think She Is? is a reminder that art history, at least in its most formal presentation, is mostly not “herstory.”

‘Hijabi Monologues’: The Women Under The Head Scarves
3/6/09
LA Times: To get into character for a play she was doing in L.A., actress May Alhassen wrapped a black pashmina around her thick, dark hair and tied the loose ends into a bun at the back of her head. Then she stepped out onto the street.

Aussie Women Favourites To Defend World Cup
3/6/09
AAP via TVNZ.com: Australia’s fiercest traditional sporting rivals, England and New Zealand, loom as the biggest threats to the host nation and defending champions’ prospects of winning the women’s cricket World Cup starting on Saturday.