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The Gendered Newsroom
Sally Jackson, from The Australian, interviews Louise North about her recently released book, The Gendered Newsroom: how journalists experience the changing world of media
Read the full article: Book reveals female journalists’ survival strategies, Sally Jackson | May 18, 2009
Dr Louise North is a senior lecturer with Monash Journalism.
Usha M Rodrigues, Lecturer in Journalism, says Slumdog Millionaire’s depiction of India’s underbelly has left some Indians feeling misrepresented.
“When the film was released in India, it didn’t do very well at the box office. In fact people, particularly some of the slum-dwellers, protested against the depiction of their life on the big screen. Many writers opined about these protests being politically motivated, while others said it was pride which made Indians, including slum dwellers, object to being called slum dogs.”
Louise North
Dr Louise North, newly appointed Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Journalism, has just published her first book with US publisher Hampton Press.
The Gendered Newsroom: How Journalists Experience the Changing World of Media is a vivid exploration of the gendered production of news–and in particular the experiences of women–in the Australian print news media.
The book engages with the question of how gender shapes newsroom culture and in so doing is concerned with production practices and cultural processes. It considers the dilemmas, constraints, negotiations and compromises which shape journalists’ day-to-day routines.
It probes specific questions about gender in asking:
What is journalism and what is a journalist?
How is newsroom culture embodied?
How do female journalists experience newsroom culture?
How has global industry change impacted on the workplace and what does this mean for journalists?
How does feminism get played out in the newsroom?
What is the relationship of newsroom culture to the content of the news?
The Gendered Newsroom
The author’s astute empirical research provides a distinctive account of how Australian print news media journalists experience newsroom culture.
The in-depth interviews with journalists ranging in age and industry experience reveal a complex culture coming to terms with dramatic industry change.
US academic Carolyn Byerly says the book “scopes out new terrain, and it sets a new standard not just for feminist media scholarship but for all critical research on media. I have seen no other author more willing to probe so many different aspects of news production”.
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