Dear colleagues,

I am currently working on a paper about which role journalists’ gender – among a couple of other factors on different levels – plays for the representation of women and men as sources/actors in political news coverage. There are several studies, which answered similar research questions based on content analysis data (e.g. Armstrong, 2004; Cann & Mohr, 2001; De Swert & Hooghe, 2010; Leiva & Kimber, 2020; Piper-Aiken, 1999; Rodgers & Thorson, 2003; Ross, 2007; Valenzuela & Correa, 2009; Zoch & Turk, 1998), but – with the exceptions of Weaver and Wilhoit (1996) – none, which used mixed methods designs and combined content analysis data with survey data from journalists authoring the analysed news items.

Do you have any suggestions for studies I might have overseen?

Thank you in advance!

Andreas

• Armstrong, C. L. (2004). The Influence of Reporter Gender on Source Selection in Newspaper Stories. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(1), 139–154. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769900408100110
• Cann, D. J., & Mohr, P. B. (2001). Journalist and Source Gender in Australian Television News. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 45(1), 162–174. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4501_10
• De Swert, K., & Hooghe, M. (2010). When Do Women Get a Voice? Explaining the Presence of Female News Sources in Belgian News Broadcasts (2003—5). European Journal of Communication, 25(1), 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323109354229
• Leiva, R., & Kimber, D. (2020). A Persistent Gender Bias in Chilean Press: The Influence of Journalist’s Gender and Editor’s Gender. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 107769902095875. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020958753
• Piper-Aiken, K. S. (1999, August 4). Journalists and Gender: An Analysis of the New York Times Coverage of the 1996 US Presidential Election. annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, New Orleans, LA.
• Rodgers, S., & Thorson, E. (2003). A Socialization Perspective on Male and Female Reporting. Journal of Communication, 53(4), 658–675. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2003.tb02916.x
• Ross, K. (2007). The journalist, the housewife, the citizen and the press: Women and men as sources in local news narratives. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 8(4), 449–473. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884907078659
• Valenzuela, S., & Correa, T. (2009). Press Coverage and Public Opinion On Women Candidates: The Case of Chile’s Michelle Bachelet. International Communication Gazette, 71(3), 203–223. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048508100913
• Weaver, D. H., & Wilhoit, G. C. (1996). The American journalist in the 1990s: U.S. news people at the end of an era. Erlbaum.
• Zoch, L. M., & Turk, J. V. (1998). Women Making News: Gender as a Variable in Source Selection and Use. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 75(4), 762–775. https://doi.org/10.1177/107769909807500410