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The book "The Cultures of the Press in Mexico (1880-1940)" analyzes the particularities of Mexican publications during that period and how they influenced their context. Questions such as who were the readers of the press, who financed journalistic projects, and how the role of the press evolved in the Mexican public sphere are explored. The book features the collaboration of 16 researchers and is divided into six sections that address topics such as the relationship between the press and cinema, the democratization of the press, and the participation of women in the media. The study of Mexican-American press in the United States is highlighted, as it became an important literary institution for Spanish-speaking communities. The magazine Ser de Puebla is also analyzed, dismantling preconceptions about publications. The book showcases different methodological approaches to understanding the importance of journalistic projects in Mexican publishing culture. The influence of newspaper directors such as Carlos Noriega Hope and Martín Luis Guzmán is emphasized. The book concludes by highlighting the importance of journalism in national life and the need to question preconceptions about print media. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this paper is to describe the evolution of disability in cinema via its relationship with the specialized press. We analysed all movies’ data sheets from ‘Filmaffinity’ (n=1,180), together with all the professional reviews highlighted in them (n=2,000). The results show a preponderance of drama over other genres, although it is documentaries that obtain the best reception from cultural press. Women and Anglophone media tend to value these productions more favourably. In addition, the quality of the records, according to these experts, increases year after year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A growing argument in communication scholarship is that quality journalism online can distinguish itself from rumor and unchecked information by being transparent, by revealing how information was obtained, so audiences can see through it to its origins and help correct errors. This study examined the extent to which female and male journalists differ in their use of Twitter and, specifically, their journalistic transparency on Twitter. Female journalists were found to differ little from male journalists in their Twitter presence, topics, opining or gatekeeping, but they were significantly more transparent. They revealed more about their jobs, personal lives and everyday activities, and they linked more to external websites, all indicators of greater transparency. While women working for national news media were less likely to offer opinion, retweet, link or tweet about themselves or their everyday lives than women working for less “elite” media—which would support a professional socialization perspective—none of these differences was statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Based on interviews with women journalists, the article analyzes the disadvantages faced by women in attaining management positions in communications in Argentina. It cites one interviewee as stating that the number of women in higher positions in the communications industry is below the 30 percent quota required by the government. It quotes another interviewee, who explains that most women do not have the previous management experience in the right organizations or departments to enter management in the communications industry. The article also refers to psychologist Mabel Burín, who finds that the frustration experienced by women unable to advance in their careers because of their gender is a factor in female depression.

The article, through a series of interviews conducted with women war correspondents in Great Britain, cautions against undue optimism since sexism in the field, both within the military and among journalists, continues to prevail. The authors of the essay do not subscribe to a feminization of war news theory but instead suggest that a "journalism of attachment," which favors more human stories of civilian victims is creating a productive arena for women reporters. It is suggested that the presence of women in the frontline may also be indicative of a change in war storylines. A female perspective is allowing for greater engagement with the lives of the victims of war rather than its technical and strategic aspects.

This article studies the ways in which the interactions between female Israeli journalists and their male news sources are gendered and sexually structured. The article is grounded in feminist critiques of journalism as well as feminist organizational and work studies and it is based on examination of the narratives of individual experiences of 32 female Israeli journalists, working for 10 newspapers. I set forth the attitudes of the male sources toward the female journalists as the journalists perceive them, and then I examine the practices that the journalists adopt in order to cope with these attitudes. Finally, I both set forth and examine the views that these female journalists express concerning the legitimacy of their own practices. The research findings illustrate how gender and sexuality interact in journalism by showing the dynamic character of this process in organizations. The findings demonstrate that gender and sexuality are key aspects of the relationship between the female journalists I studied and their male sources in the Israeli context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In step with the journalism community, women educators fashioned for themselves a national presence in the 1970s. In stages that mirrored those of the profession, educators brought forward gender concerns, to have them addressed in ad hoc fashion by their national association. The women engaged in two decades of committee activism to gain decision-making power at a national level and to open the door for the next generation of feminist media scholarship. This article charts the issues that women educators faced and the actions they pursued as the Committee on the Status of Women (1972-1990). Tracing the development of this Committee points to the progress brought about by women journalism educators as they strove to gain a voice in national affairs. Likewise, it reflects women's standing and their struggles for recognition across the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite securing many "firsts" in journalism and surpassing males in journalism school enrollment, women journalists in the 1970s were also filing complaints of sex discrimination. One of the harder-fought sex discrimination cases was settled out of court by The New York Times in 1978, signifying a message of change at one of America's most tradition-bound newspapers. This study examined the coverage of women journalists in Editor & Publisher magazine during the decade following the settlement of this case. Overall, the coverage indicated that despite the growth and struggles for women journalists in the 1970s, the next decade brought more battles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on productiveness of women in the newspaper industry in Capitol Hill. Comment of Ben Perley Poore on the indisputable right of the women to take place in the front ranks of news gatherers; Efficacy of the new rule that was added to the accreditation rules; Impact of the war on the advancement of women in journalism.

Focuses on the training of female students as sports journalists in the U.S. Lack of women in newspaper sports writing; Increase in the desire of women for equal opportunity in sports writing; Percentage of females enrolled in U.S. sports journalism.

The article discusses the experiences of female journalists on the prerevolutionary stage in Russia. Alexandra Sokolova, the first individual to enjoy distinction because she was both female and a journalist, took full advantage of the changing times, she joined the quasi-revolutionary circles of the young intellectuals dissatisfied with the limits of the Great Reforms. Another is A. N. Toliverova, who took advantage of her husband's social and intellectual connections to advance her writing and joined Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaign for unification. Next is A. S. Suvorin, who flirted with the left in the 1860s and swung to the right when he decided to try to work within the system, including the hiring of women.

The article argues that audience perceptions about women have not kept pace with institutional changes in the field of journalism. Thus, the spaces available for women as agents in war journalism continue to be attenuated. Given that most news about Iraq was coming from the wire services or international media agencies, the South African Broadcasting Corp. adopted a different approach in an attempt to offer an alternative view of events in Iraq. For the first time, a decision was taken to send South African reporters and cameramen, as "unilaterals," to a combat zone. One of the reporters, who arrived in Baghdad the first day the U.S. invasion began and remained throughout the bombardment of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, was a young woman named, Renee Horne. South African audiences continued to feminize Horne, demanding that she look glamorous.