1st Edition
News, Gender and Power
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I The Gender Politics of Journalism; intro1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Politics of the Smile, Patricia Holland; Chapter 2 One of the Girls?, Liesbet van Zoonen; Chapter 3 Juvenation, John Hartley; Chapter 4 Gender, Privacy and Publicity in ‘Media Event Space’, Lisa McLaughlin; Chapter 5 ‘Mrs Knight Must be Balanced’, Janet Thumim; Chapter 6 Politicizing the Personal, Myra Macdonald; Chapter 7 (En)gendering the Truth Politics of News Discourse, Stuart Allan; Part II The Gendered Realities of News; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 8 Newsroom Accounts of Power at Work, Linda Steiner; Chapter 9 Mass Communication and the Shaping of us Feminism, Patricia Bradley; Chapter 10 ‘Mad Cows and Englishmen’, Rod Brookes, Beverley Holbrook; Chapter 11 The Gender-Politics of News Production, Jenny Kitzinger; Chapter 12 Gender and the Agenda, Paula Skidmore; Chapter 13 When the ‘Extraordinary’ Becomes ‘Ordinary’, Cynthia Carter; Chapter 14 A Family Affair, Maggie Wykes; Chapter 15 Crimewatch UK, C. Kay Weaver;
Biography
Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston, Stuart, Allan
