The influence of journalists' gender on newspaper stories about women Cabinet members in South Korea

Abstract

This study examined whether there were differences in news reporting of women’s subjects in South Korea due to reporter gender. The findings reveal that, in covering the women Cabinet members in South Korea, female reporters used a more positive tone, emphasized conflict news value less, used fewer stereotypical references to women, and employed more gender-sensitive perspectives than did male reporters. Our analysis also reveal that there was not a significant difference between the female-friendly newspapers and the female-unfriendly newspapers in terms of the story’s tone, gender-equity tendency, and use of conflict news value in their news stories about women Cabinet members.