Covering presidential election campaigns : does reporter gender affect the work lives of correspondents and their reportage?

• Main Authors: Grabe, Maria Elizabeth, Samson, Lelia, Zelenkauskaite, Asta, Yegiyan, Narine S.
• 其他作者: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2014
• 主題: DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::News reporting and writing
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100663; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19583
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

This content analysis reveals that men and women network news correspondents differed in how they covered 4 presidential elections (1992–2004). There were fewer women than men reporters involved in election coverage, but on average, women reported more stories than men and were tonally tougher watch...