WOMEN IN JOURNALISM
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PRINT: More of the Same Old Story? Women, War, and News in Time Magazine.
Harp, D., Loke, J., & Bachmann, I. (2011). More of the same old story? Women, war, and news in Time Magazine. Women's Studies In Communication, 34(2), 202-217. doi:10.1080/07491409.2011.619470
More of the Same Old Story? is a content analysis of 406 stories published over a five-year span by Time Magazine, all of which are focused around the war in Iraq, starting with the March 2003 invasion. The report focuses on the role gender played in the reporting, coverage and views of the stories produced. The article offers a summary of feminist theory as it relates to women's roles and the coverage of world news, namely conflict reporting. The article poses a number of research questions and hypothesis as well as presents hard numbers on the 406 articles it analyzes. The article concludes that women are still significantly underrepresented as not only news reporters, but as subjects and sources. Perhaps most alarming is that of the 1,591 human sources cited in the 406 stories, only 26 were female Iraqis. From the article's feminist standpoint it offers the opinion that the underrepresentation of women in journalism provides a more positive outlook of war to Time's readers as well as largely portraying women as victims and men as active participants or experts.