Resumen

ALCANTARA, Juliana. Gender and journalism: who makes the news and how it influences the discourse. OBS* [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.1, pp.38-47.  Epub 26-Jul-2022. ISSN 1646-5954.  https://doi.org/10.15847/obsobs15120211688.

The main subject discussed in this paper concerns the question: would more women journalists alter the gender perspective in news productions? The article is divided into three parts. In the first, the discourse is approached from a gender perspective, explained by Teun van Dijk (2017) and Linda Steiner (2017). The second part is reserved for a bibliographical review of some researches which emphasize gender differentiation in newsrooms. Some of them point out differences in media representations and take into account the number of women working as jounalists. However, more recent research contextualizes the socio-cultural insertion of media professionals, considering gender roles in society. Since the feminization of newsrooms is a phenomenon that happens at the same time happens the communicational crisis in the beginning of this century, five strategies proposed by Margaret Gallagher (2004) are presented. It is a manual to change the current scenario. The author's point of view comprises media than other the news and is based on gender perspective.

Palabras clave : journalism; gender; feminization of newsrooms; discourse; subjectivity.

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