Gender Mainstreaming in International News: A Case Study of the Inter Press Service

Geertsema, Margaretha

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“…Even male athletes are more quoted in an article focusing on female athletes; whereas according to Kane, quoting Cunningham et al (2004),"the mass media have become one of the most powerful institutional forces for shaping values and attitutes in modern culture". Nevertheless, there are also media institutions that consciously implement a gender mainstreaming policy in their newsroom, as according to (Geertsema, 2009) have been conducted by Inter Press Service since 1994.…”

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Gender Awareness of Maria Hartiningsih as a Kompas Daily Reporter

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Murwani

Ritonga

2017

Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia

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Structure of the media in Indonesia is still dominated by men who lack of gender sensitivity so that the role of women journalists as agents of change towards gender awareness is important to discuss. This study aims to determine the factors that make up the awareness, values and attitudes of women journalists on gender, and the influence of media and community structure in forming the gender awareness of women journalists. As a case study, a journalist of the largest newspaper in Indonesia, Kompas, namely Maria Hartiningsih is chosen. The study is based on the concept of genderedperspective journalism as a practice of journalistic that informs and questions inequality of the relationship between men and women. The study uses a qualitative approach with the method of Critical Discourse Analysis model of Norman Fairclough. Text analysis is conducted to examine the writings of Maria Hartiningsih in Kompas related to gender issues. The results show that at the textual level-since she started joining Kompas-Maria Hartiningsih's writing already highlighted problems of women, street children, and poverty. Her awareness and perspective on gender is a process conducted through the experience of reporting, discussions, and reading books related to gender. In the case of 'Maria', Kompas as an institution provides her with freedom to pour her thoughts.Keywords: Women Journalists, Gender Awareness, Kompas Daily, Maria Hartiningsih. AbstrakStruktur media di Indonesia masih didominasi laki-laki yang kurang memiliki sensitivitas gender sehingga peran jurnalis perempuan sebagai agen perubahan terkait kesadaran gender menjadi penting untuk didiskusikan. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui faktor-faktor yang membentuk kesadaran, nilai-nilai dan sikap jurnalis perempuan tentang gender serta pengaruh struktur media dan masyarakat dalam membentuk kesadaran gender jurnalis perempuan. Sebagai kasus dipilih Maria Hartiningsih, wartawan harian Kompas. Metode penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode analisis wacana kritis model Norman Fairclough. Analisis teks pada penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis tulisan-tulisan Maria Hartiningsih yang sudah dimuat di Harian Kompas yang berkaitan dengan persoalan gender. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pada tataran teks -sejak awal bergabung dengan Kompas, Maria Hartiningsih sudah menyoroti masalah-masalah perempuan, anak jalanan dan kemiskinan. Kesadaran dan perspektifnya tentang gender merupakan suatu proses yang dilakukan melalui pengalaman liputan, diskusi, dan membaca buku-buku yang berkaitan dengan gender. Dalam kasus 'Maria', Kompas sebagai institusi memberikan kebebasan menuangkan pemikiran-pemikirannya.

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Gender Awareness of Maria Hartiningsih as a Kompas Daily Reporter

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Murwani

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2017

Komunikasi Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia

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“…An alternative proposition-in the industry as well as the academy-has been that for news content to change, women must move into leadership positions in the newsroom and/or the fundamental structures of news institutions must change. Margaretha Geertsema (2009) assessed the outcomes of the "gender mainstreaming" policy of the Inter Press Service, a global news agency focusing on development communication, whose goal was to normalize employment of women at all levels of the organization and coverage of women's issues in all news content. Drawing on cultural globalization theory, Geertsema concluded that while the concept was well received in theory, in practice the news reporting and content remained predominantly male-driven.…”

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Women in the Newsroom

Kitch¹

2015

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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The May 2014 firing of The New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, the first woman to hold the newspaper's top editorial position, prompted widespread discussion in the profession and in the academy about continuing discrimination against women in American newsrooms. Amanda Bennett, who in 2006 had met a similar fate after only 3 years as the first female editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote that for women in journalism, "this event hit like a lightning strike to dry tinder," not just the firing but the implications that Abramson had brought it on herself by being too "difficult" and by having the nerve to reveal pay inequity (Bennett, 2014, p. A15). During the previous year, the departures of Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, like Katie Couric before them, left the face of national television news a very male one.The problem is not merely anecdotal. "Women are not ascending to the top jobs in any media sector at anywhere near the rate they're entering the journalism school pipeline," wrote Ann Marie Lipinski (2014), the former (and first female) editor of The Chicago Tribune, in this year's Nieman Reports issue titled "Where Are the Women?" (p. 3). By mid-2014, none of the nation's top-10-circulation daily newspapers and just two of the top-25 papers were under the editorial direction of a woman (Strupp, 2014). Women comprise only 36% of newsroom staffers, a figure that has remained stagnant for more than three decades (Bulkeley, 2002;Women's Media Center, 2014). "The numbers stink, by and large," said Abramson during her keynote address to the 2014 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference in Montreal.Common sense tells us that the story of women in journalism (and other media industries) surely is a narrative of progress. Yet these flatlining statistics and recent developments suggest otherwise. Once again, we are having this conversation. Why? What's more, what does it matter if newsrooms and other media workplaces are full of, and led by, women? Should we be most concerned about equality of access to jobs and promotions, or about how women are treated once they get there? Or is there something even more at stake? Might gender parity fundamentally change the nature of journalism itself?This special issue compiles 10 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly articles in which researchers have used a range of theories and methods to grapple with these questions. Some of them were published very recently; others are important studies whose concerns have not yet fully been addressed. (Indeed, looking back through the pages of the journal over time, one is struck by how often the same research questions-and findings-recur, and the online collection provides an extended list of articles on this theme.

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Islands of Divergence in a Stream of Convergence

Reich¹

2013

Journalism Studies

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Gender Mainstreaming in International News: A Case Study of the Inter Press Service

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Gender Awareness of Maria Hartiningsih as a Kompas Daily Reporter

Gender Awareness of Maria Hartiningsih as a Kompas Daily Reporter

Women in the Newsroom

Islands of Divergence in a Stream of Convergence

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