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NEWS, GENDER AND POWER

How do gender relations affect journalistic practice? Despite the star status

accorded to some women reporters, why is media culture largely defined in male

terms? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as

ever? Newspaper and broadcast journalism occupies a central place in the

modern mass media and although there has been a dramatic increase in the

number of women working in journalism, the glass ceiling still keeps most

women out of senior management positions.

News, Gender and Power addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes

the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and draws on

feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore the multiple

interconnections between news, gender and power .

A range of media issues are investigated, including ownership and control,

employment and occupation status, professional identity, news sources, the

portrayal and representation of women, the ‘sexualisation’ of news and audience

research. Within this framework the contributors explore media coverage of

cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial, the BSE scandal, the horrific crimes of Fred

and Rosemary West, child sexual abuse and ‘false memory syndrome’, and the

representation of women in life-style documentaries.

Contributors: Stuart Allan, Patricia Bradley, Gill Branston, Rod Brookes,

Cynthia Carter, John Hartley, Beverley Holbrook, Patricia Holland, Jenny

Kitzinger, Myra Macdonald, Lisa McLaughlin, Paula Skidmore, Linda Steiner,

Janet Thumim, Liesbet van Zoonen, C. Kay Weaver, Maggie Wykes.

Editors: Cynthia Carter and Gill Branston are lecturers in the School of

Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Wales. Stuart Allan

is a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Glamorgan,

Wales.

CONTENTS

List of contributors

vii

Acknowledgements

Setting new(s) agendas: An introduction

CYNTHIA CARTER, GILL BRANSTON AND STUART ALLAN

PART I

The gender politics of journalism

Introduction

1 The politics of the smile: ‘Soft news’ and the

sexualisation of the popular press

PATRICIA HOLLAND

2 One of the girls?: The changing gender of journalism

LIESBET VAN ZOONEN

3 Juvenation: News, girls and power

JOHN HARTLEY

4 Gender, privacy and publicity in ‘media event space’

LISA MCLAUGHLIN

5 ‘Mrs Knight must be balanced’: Methodological problems

in researching early British television

JANET THUMIM

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