News, Gender and Power - Hardback

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 Poweraddresses 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 contro* employment and occupation statu* the representation of women in the medi* the sexualization of news and audience research.Within this framework the contributors explore media coverage of:* the trial of O. J. Simpso* British beef and the BSE scanda* the horrific crimes of Fred and Rosemary Wes* child sexual abuse and false memory syndrom* the portrayal of women in TV documentaries such as Modern Timesand Cutting Edge.