1st Edition
Journalism, Gender and Power
Journalism, Gender and Power revisits the key themes explored in the 1998 edited collection News, Gender and Power. It takes stock of progress made to date, and also breaks ground in advancing critical understandings of how and why gender matters for journalism and current democratic cultures.
This new volume develops research insights into issues such as the influence of media ownership and control on sexism, women’s employment, and "macho" news cultures, the gendering of objectivity and impartiality, tensions around the professional identities of journalists, news coverage of violence against women, the sexualization of women in the news, the everyday experience of normative hierarchies and biases in newswork, and the gendering of news audience expectations, amongst other issues.
These issues prompt vital questions for feminist and gender-centred explorations concerned with reimagining journalism in the public interest. Contributors to this volume challenge familiar perspectives, and in so doing, extend current parameters of dialogue and debate in fresh directions relevant to the increasingly digitalized, interactive intersections of journalism with gender and power around the globe.
Journalism, Gender and Power will inspire readers to rethink conventional assumptions around gender in news reporting—conceptual, professional, and strategic—with an eye to forging alternative, progressive ways forward.
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Introduction
Section I: The Gendered Politics of News Production
1. Getting to the Top: Women and Decision-making in European News Media Industries
Karen Ross and Claudia Pado
2. Women and Technology in the Newsroom: Vision or Reality from Data Journalism to the News Startup Era
Nikki Usher
3. When Arab Women (and Men) Speak: Struggles of Female Journalists in a Gendered News Industry
Jad P. Melki and Sarah Mallat
4. Seeking Women’s Expertise in the UK Broadcast News Media
Suzanne Franks and Lis Howells
5. Pretty in Pink: The Ongoing Importance of Appearance in Broadcast News
April Spray Newton and Linda Steiner
6. Women, Journalism and Labor Unions
Carolyn M. Byerly and Sharifa Simon-Roberts
Section II: News Discourses Sexualisation and Sexual violence
7. Trending Now: Feminism, Postfeminism, Sexism and Misogyny in British Journalism
Rosalind Gill and Katie Toms
8. U.S. News Coverage of Transgender Lives: A Historical and Critical Review
Jamie Capuzza
9. Gendered Violence in, of and by Sport News
David Rowe
10. Irreconcilable Differences? Framing Demand in News Coverage of United Kingdom Anti-Trafficking Legislation
Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston
11. Patriarchy and Power in the South African News: Competing Coverage of the Murder of Anene Booysen
Nicky Falkof
12. No more Page 3? Sexualisation, Politics and the UK Tabloid Press
Patricia Holland
13. "Page 3 Journalism": Gender and News Cultures in Post Reforms India Section III: Engendering News Audiences and Activism
Sahana Udupa
14. Refugees and Islam: Representing Race, Rights, Cohabitation
Beverly M. Weber
15. Black Lives Matter and the Rise of Womanist News Narratives
Allissa V. Richardson
16. Be Cute, Play with Dolls and Stick to Tea Parties: Journalism, Girls and Power
Cynthia Carter
17. Mediated Gendered Activism in the "Post-Arab Spring" Era: Lessons from Tunisia’s "Jasmine Revolution"
Sahar Khamis
18. The (In)visibility of Arab Women in Political Journalism
Noha Mellor
19. Obstacles to Chinese Women Journalists’ Career Advancement
Haiyan Wang
Section IV: Politics and Identities in the News
20. Feminism and Gender in the Post-Truth Public Sphere
Catharine Lumby
21. Women and War Photography: En/gendering Alternative Histories
Stuart Allan
22. The Gendered Racialization of Puerto Ricans in TV News Coverage of Hurricane Maria
Isabel Molina Guzman
23. When Women Run for Office: Press Coverage of Hillary Clinton During the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Erika Falk
24. Conceptualising Masculinity and Femininity in the British Press
Paul Baker and Helen Baker
Index
Biography
Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children, news, and citizenship; feminist news and journalism studies; and media violence. Her recent books include Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies (2013) and the Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2014). She is a founding Co-Editor of Feminist Media Studies and serves on the editorial board of numerous media and communication studies journals.
Linda Steiner is Professor in the College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA, and Editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs. Recent co-authored or co-edited books include: Key Concepts in Critical-Cultural Studies (2010), Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (2013), The Handbook of Gender and War (2016), and Race, News, and the City: Uncovering Baltimore (2017). She has published over 100 book chapters and refereed journal articles. Steiner leads the campus Keeping Our Faculty program.
Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. His publications include Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (2013) and the edited collections, The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (revised edition, 2012) and Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity (2017). He is currently researching the visual cultures of news imagery in war, conflict, and crisis reporting, amongst other projects.
