Purple Lenses: The Appearance of the Gender Editor in the Mainstream Press. Preliminary Qualitative Study in Spain and the United States
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30-10-2019
Susana Pérez Soler
Meritxell Roca Sales
Abstract
This paper explores the newly created role of the gender editor that some media have started introducing in newsrooms with a double goal: to include the gender perspective in news coverage and to claim equal working conditions. This paper analyzes six
newspapers, legacy and digital natives, from Spain and the United States. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with five gender editors to understand the responsibilities attributed to this new role as well as and the causes of their creation, both from a social and an economic perspective.
KEYWORDS: Gender editor; new professional roles; gender; newspaper; feminism.
newspapers, legacy and digital natives, from Spain and the United States. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with five gender editors to understand the responsibilities attributed to this new role as well as and the causes of their creation, both from a social and an economic perspective.
KEYWORDS: Gender editor; new professional roles; gender; newspaper; feminism.
How to Cite
Pérez Soler, S., & Roca Sales, M. (2019). Purple Lenses: The Appearance of the Gender Editor in the Mainstream Press. Preliminary Qualitative Study in Spain and the United States. ZER - Journal of Communication Studies, 24(47). https://doi.org/10.1387/zer.20738
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Bakker, P. (2014). Mr. Gates returns: Curation, community management and other new roles for journalists. Journalism studies, 15(5), 596-606.
Bell, E.J., Owen, T., Brown, P.D., Hauka, C. y Rashidian, N. (2017). The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley Reengineered Journalism. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Columbia University. Recuperado de https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8R216ZZ
Benesch, C. (2012). An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in News Consumption. Journal of Media Economics, 25(3), 147-67. doi:10.1080/08997764.2012.700976.
Boczkowski, P. (2004). Digitalizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. Estados Unidos: The MIT Press.
Caminero-Fernández, L. y Sánchez-García, P. (2018). El perfil y formación del ciberperiodista en redacciones nativas digitales. Hipertext.net: Revista Académica sobre Documentación Digital y Comunicación Interactiva, (16), 4-15.
Castells, M. (2009) Comunicación y poder. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Cobos, T.L., (2011). Y surge el community manager. Razón y palabra, 16(75). Recuperado de
http://www.razonypalabra.org.mx/N/N75/varia_75/varia2parte/15_Cobos_V75.pdf
Deuze, M. (2011) Managing Media Work. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
Domingo, D. (2011). Managing Audience Participation: Practices, Workflows and Strategies. Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates in Online Newspapers, ed. Jane B. Singer et al. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Franks, S. (2013). Women and Journalism. London: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Gillmor, D. (2004) We the media: grassroots journalism by the people, for the people. Beijing: O'Reilly.
García Saiz, L. (2018) Análisis de la situación laboral de las periodistas españolas. Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, 13, 7-27.
Guallar, J. y Codina, L. (2018). Journalistic content curation and news librarianship: Differential characteristics and necessary convergence. El profesional de la información, 27(4), 778-791. Recuperado de https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.jul.07
Hazard, L. (2018). Here's what the Financial Times is doing to get bossy man voice out of (okay, less prominent in) its opinion section. Nieman Lab. Recuperado de http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/09/heres-what-the-financial-times-is-doing-to-get-bossy-man-voice-out-of-okay-less-prominent-in-its-opinion-section/
Holton, A. E., Lewis, S. C. y Coddington, M. (2016) Interacting with Audiences. Journalism Studies, 17(7), 849-859.
Jean, M. (2010). Why The New York Times eliminated its social media editor position. Poynter. Recuperado de
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2010/why-the-new-york-times-eliminated-its-social-media-editor-position/
Larsson, A. O. y Andrea I. K. (2017). Beyond 'J-Tweeters'. Journalism Practice, 11(6), 689-704. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2016.1181983
Mayer, J. (2010). What engagement means to the Guardian's Meg Pickard. Recuperado de https://joymayer.com/2010/12/01/what-engagement-means-to-the-guardians-meg-pickard
McNamara, B. (2017). Meet The New York Times's first gender editor. Teen Vogue. Recuperado de https://www.teenvogue.com/story/new-york-times-first-gender-editor
McCracken, K., FitzSimmons, A., Priest, S., Girstmair, S., y Murphy, B. (2018). Gender Equality in the Media Sector. Directorate-General for Internal Policies. European Parliament. Recuperado de
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/596839/IPOL_STU(2018)596839_EN.pdf
Nelson, J. L. (2017). And Deliver Us to Segmentation. Journalism Practice, 1(16). doi:10.1080/17512786.2017.1378588
Pavlik, J. V. (2013) Innovation and the future of journalism. Digital Journalism, 1(2), 181-193. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2012.756666
Pérez-Soler, S. y Micó-Sanz, J. L. (2015). El mito de la conversación global. Usos de Twitter en las redacciones periodísticas catalanas y belgas. El profesional de la información, 24(3), 246-255.
Piet, B. (2012). "Aggregation, Content Farms and Huffinization: The Rise of Low-pay and No-pay Journalism." Journalism Practice 6 (5–6), 627–637.
Rashidian, N., Brown, P.D. y Hansen, E. (2018). Friend and Foe: The Platform Press at the Heart of Journalism. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Columbia University. Recuperado de
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-platform-press-at-the-heart-of-journalism.php
Roca, M. (2014). Shifting to Digital: Difficulties, Challenges, and Opportunities—A Qualitative Interview Study of Practitioners' Experiences in the US. Advertising & Society Review, 15(3).
Rosentiel, T. (2008). Where Men and Women Differ in Following the News. Pew Research Center. Recuperado de http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/02/06/where-men-and-women-differ-in-following-the-news
Shearer, E. (2018). Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source. Pew Research Center. Recuperado de http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/10/social-media-outpaces-print-newspapers-in-the-u-s-as-a-news-source/
Spayd, L. (2017). The Declining Fortunes of Women at The Times. The New York Times. Recuperado de
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/public-editor/the-declining-fortunes-of-women-at-the-times.html
The New York Times. (2017). Jessica Bennett, our new gender editor, answers your questions. Recuperado de
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/reader-center/jessica-bennett-our-new-gender-editor-answers-your-questions.html
Toff, B. J., y Palmer, R. A. (2018). Explaining the Gender Gap in News Avoidance: "News-Is-for-Men" Perceptions and the Burdens of Caretaking. Journalism Studies. Recuperado de https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1528882
Zeisler, A. (2018). Media's Gender Gap. Investigating relationships between women's news production and consumption. USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. Recuperado de http://mediaimpactproject.org/uploads/5/1/2/7/5127770/womennewsroom.pdf
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