Journalism, Gender and Power

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.

• Introduction, Section I: The Gendered Politics of News Production 1. Getting to the Top: Women and Decision-making in European News Media Industries 2. Women and Technology in the Newsroom: Vision or Reality from Data Journalism to the News Startup Era 3. When Arab Women (and Men) Speak: Struggles of Female Journalists in a Gendered News Industry 4. Seeking Women’s Expertise in the UK Broadcast News Media 5. Pretty in Pink: The Ongoing Importance of Appearance in Broadcast News 6. Women, Journalism and Labor Unions Section II: News Discourses Sexualisation and Sexual violence 7. Trending Now: Feminism, Postfeminism, Sexism and Misogyny in British Journalism 8. U.S. News Coverage of Transgender Lives: A Historical and Critical Review 9. Gendered Violence in, of and by Sport News 10. Gendered Violence in, of and by Sport News 10. Irreconcilable Differences? Framing Demand in News Coverage of United Kingdom Anti-Trafficking Legislation 11. Patriarchy and Power in the South African News: Competing Coverage of the Murder of Anene Booysen 12. No more Page 3? Sexualisation, Politics and the UK Tabloid Press 13. "Page 3 Journalism": Gender and News Cultures in Post Reforms India Section III: Engendering News Audiences and Activism 14. Refugees and Islam: Representing Race, Rights, Cohabitation 15. Black Lives Matter and the Rise of Womanist News Narratives 16. Be Cute, Play with Dolls and Stick to Tea Parties: Journalism, Girls and Power 17. Mediated Gendered Activism in the "Post-Arab Spring" Era: Lessons from Tunisia’s "Jasmine Revolution" 18. The (In)visibility of Arab Women in Political Journalism 19. Obstacles to Chinese Women Journalists’ Career Advancement Section IV: Politics and Identities in the News 20. Feminism and Gender in the Post-Truth Public Sphere 21. Women and War Photography: En/gendering Alternative Histories 22. The Gendered Racialization of Puerto Ricans in TV News Coverage of Hurricane Maria 23. When Women Run for Office: Press Coverage of Hillary Clinton During the 2016 Presidential Campaign 24. Conceptualising Masculinity and Femininity in the British Press