News, Gender and Power
How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever?\ News, Gender and Power addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism. The contributors, who...
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How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? News, Gender and Power addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism. The contributors, who include John Hartley, Pat Holland, Jenny Kitzinger and Myra Macdonald, draw on feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore media issues such as: * ownership and control* employment and occupation status* the representation of women in the media* the sexualization of news and audience research. Within this framework the contributors explore media coverage of: * the trial of O. J. Simpson* British beef and the BSE scandal* the horrific crimes of Fred and Rosemary West* child sexual abuse and false memory syndrome* the portrayal of women in TV documentaries such as Modern Times and Cutting Edge.
List of contributorsAcknowledgementsSetting new(s) agendas: An introduction1Pt. IThe gender politics of journalism1The politics of the smile: 'Soft news' and the sexualisation of the popular press172One of the girls?: The changing gender of journalism333Juvenation: News, girls and power474Gender, privacy and publicity in 'media event space'715'Mrs Knight must be balanced': Methodological problems in researching early British television916Politicizing the personal: Women's voices in British television documentaries1057(En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse121Pt. IIThe gendered realities of news8Newsroom accounts of power at work1459Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism16010'Mad cows and Englishmen': Gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis17411The gender-politics of news production: Silenced voices and false memories18612Gender and the agenda: News reporting of child sexual abuse20413When the 'extraordinary' becomes 'ordinary': Everyday news of sexual violence21914A family affair: The British press, sex and the Wests23315Crimewatch UK: Keeping women off the streets248Bibliography263Index286
