Explain in what ways is news and the journalism industry gendered?

Key Reading

North L. (2014) ‘The gender of “soft” and “hard” news: Female journalists’ views on gendered story allocations’, Journalism Studies, iFirst, 1-18.

Women in Journalism (2012) “Seen but not heard: How women make front page news” Available at: http://womeninjournalism.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Seen_but_not_heard.pdf

Additional Reading

Byerly, C. (2011) ‘Behind the scenes of women’s broadcast ownership. Howard Journal of Communications’ 22(1): 24-42.

Joseph, A. (2004). “Working, Watching, and Waiting: Women and Issues of Access, Employment, and Decision-making in the Media in India.” In Women and Media: International Perspectives, edited by Ross, K and Byerly, C. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

North, L. (2009). ‘Gendered experiences of industry change and the effects of neoliberalism’, Journalism Studies, 10(4): 506 – 521.

Lavie, A. & Lehman-Wilzig, S. (2003). “Whose News? Does Gender Determine the Editorial Product?” European Journal of Communication 18(1), pp. 5-29.

Armstrong, C.L. & Gao, F. (2011) “Gender, Twitter and News Content,” Journalism Studies, 12(4): 490-505.

Janes, H. (2011) “I’ve seen tomorrow, and it’s female” British Journalism Review 22(2):39-44.

Ross, K. & Carter, C. (2011) ‘Women and News: A long and winding road’, Media, Culture & Society, 33(8): 1148-1165.

van Zoonen, L. (1998) ’One of the Girls? The Changing Gender of Journalism’ In C. Carter, J. Branston, & S. Allan News, Gender and Power. London: Routledge, pp. 33-46.

Global Media Monitoring Project (2010) ‘Who Makes the News’, World Association for Christian Communication, Online, Available at: http://cdn.agilitycms.com/who-makes-the-news/Imported/reports_2010/global/gmmp_global_report_en.pdf


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