ABSTRACT
Academic research exploring the complex, uneven ways in which gender relations shape journalism’s institutional forms, practices, and epistemologies has evolved quite dramatically since the publication of News, Gender and Power. Delving into the production factors underpinning the coverage, researchers have highlighted important improvements while, at the same time, recognizing how gendered power dynamics shape newsroom culture, often via tacit, ostensibly “commonsensical” norms, values, and beliefs. A central aim of Journalism, Gender and Power is to revisit for purposes of further elaboration and investigation several themes set out in News, Gender and Power. The extent to which women’s voices are included in the news as reporters and presenters as well as news actors and sources has been a central point of concern in journalism. Developments have been somewhat uneven across national contexts and, rather surprisingly, on some news platforms in certain countries women journalists have lost previously gained ground and their numbers have fallen.
