Constructing the “Gender Beat:” U.S. Journalists Refocus the News in the Aftermath of #Metoo

Heckman, Meg

doi:10.1080/17512786.2021.1997151

Journalism Practice

2021

DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2021.1997151

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Constructing the “Gender Beat:” U.S. Journalists Refocus the News in the Aftermath of #Metoo

Meg Heckman

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“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms

Sbaraini Fontes,

Barão da Silva,

Marques

2023

Feminist Media Studies

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“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms

Sbaraini Fontes,

Barão da Silva,

Marques

2023

Feminist Media Studies

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Who covers what? Analyzing audience perceptions of gender differences in news beat coverage

Santia,

Willnat,

Jastrzebski

2024

Journalism

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This study investigates differences in news beat coverage between female and male journalists and their potential effects on audiences. We employ data from a representative survey of 1,600 U.S. journalists to show that female journalists are more likely to cover feminine beats (i.e., culture and health) and less likely to cover masculine beats (i.e., politics and sports) than male journalists. We complement this data with an online experiment to examine whether audiences value feminine beats covered by female journalists less than masculine beats reported by male journalists. Our results show that female journalists are not necessarily rated more positively when reporting on feminine beats—and feminine beats are not seen as more important when delivered by a female journalist.

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Constructing the “Gender Beat:” U.S. Journalists Refocus the News in the Aftermath of #Metoo

Cited by 2 publications

References 38 publications

“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms

“It was all about being ‘young,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘funny’”: how women journalists assess harassment and gender inequalities in Brazilian newsrooms

Who covers what? Analyzing audience perceptions of gender differences in news beat coverage

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