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© The Author(s) 2024.For the half-century or so in which the relationship between women and news has been researched, two of the key themes have been the underrepresentation and marginalisation of women as both subjects/sources and journalists. The latest Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) iteration – the largest international collaborative study of women and news, running since 1995 – found the pace of change regarding women’s visibility across the news landscape to be painfully slow. Focusing on the 2020 data from the UK and Ireland, this article asks how visible are women in the news and how has this changed over time? It documents how women remain overshadowed as sources and subjects: for every two women seen or heard, there are five men. While the number of women journalists is gradually increasing, they are still less likely to cover prestigious beats such as politics and have the strongest showing as news anchors and presenters. In this article, we also use news about politics and COVID-19 as vignettes to illustrate how in times of crisis or when authoritative voices are sought, journalists are often drawn to those male sources who are already more present than women in positions of power. This contributes to the marginalisation of women’s voices in the most prominent news stories and undermines their right to full participation in democratic society.
Author(s): Wheatley D, Ross K, Carter C, Boyle K
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journalism
Year: 2024
Pages: epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 24/08/2024
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 02/09/2024
ISSN (print): 1464-8849
ISSN (electronic): 1741-3001
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241276836
DOI: 10.1177/14648849241276836
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