TY - BOOK AU - Carter,Cynthia AU - Branston,Gill AU - Allan,Stuart TI - News, gender, and power SN - 0415170168 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - PN4784.W7 N48 1998 U1 - 070.4082 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Women and journalism KW - Women KW - Press coverage KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - Mass media and women KW - Feminism N1 - Rev. papers of a symposium; Includes bibliographical references and index; Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland -- One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley -- Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin -- "Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim -- Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald -- (En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan; Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner -- Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley -- "Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook -- The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger -- Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore -- When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter -- A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes -- Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver ER -