Women and news: A long and winding road

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1148-1165

  Ross, Karen ^a   Carter, Cynthia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

content analysis; Global Media Monitoring Project; masculine news values; media monitoring; women's news representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555204270     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443711418272     Document Type: Article

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