Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 Power addresses 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 control
* employment and occupation status
* the representation of women in the media
* the sexualization of news and audience research.
Within this framework the contributors explore media coverage of:
* the trial of O. J. Simpson
* British beef and the BSE scandal
* the horrific crimes of Fred and Rosemary West
* child sexual abuse and false memory syndrome
* the portrayal of women in TV documentaries such as Modern Times and Cutting Edge.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Setting New(s) Agendas (p. 1)
• Part I The Gender Politics of Journalism (p. 11)
• Introduction (p. 13)
• 1 The Politics of the Smile (p. 17)
• 2 One of the Girls? (p. 33)
• 3 Juvenation (p. 47)
• 4 Gender, Privacy and Publicity in 'media Event Space' (p. 71)
• 5 'mrs Knight Must Be Balanced' (p. 91)
• 6 Politicizing the Personal (p. 105)
• 7 (en) Gendering the Truth Politics of News Discourse (p. 121)
• Part II The Gendered Realities of News (p. 139)
• Introduction (p. 141)
• 8 Newsroom Accounts of Power at Work (p. 145)
• 9 Mass Communication and the Shaping of Us Feminism (p. 160)
• 10 'mad Cows and Englishmen' (p. 174)
• 11 The Gender-Politics of News Production (p. 186)
• 12 Gender and the Agenda (p. 204)
• 13 When the 'extraordinary' Becomes 'ordinary' (p. 219)
• 14 A Family Affair (p. 233)
• 15 Crimewatch Uk (p. 248)
• Bibliography (p. 263)
• Index (p. 286)