The gender of the main characters in sports reporting (19792010): News and headlines

  • Clara Sainz de Baranda Andújar Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2014.v20.n2.47062
Keywords: sports news, gender, sport, headlines.

Abstract

The research presented in this paper is to analyze sport information in a triple reality: Spatial (Spain), seasonal (19792010) and gender. By random sampling, analyzed a total of 95.439 information published for a week from 1979 to 2010 in the four Spanish sports newspapers with the largest circulation. The woman is subjected news only 5.11% of cases sometimes alone (2.18%) and sometimes with at least one male partner (2.93%)at the same time males is in 92.24% of the cases. It remains the same percentages with the passage of years. The results confirm how newspapers have specialized sports increased the invisibility of women despite the achievements featuring sports in recent years.

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Sainz de Baranda Andújar C. (2014). The gender of the main characters in sports reporting (19792010): News and headlines. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 20(2), 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESMP.2014.v20.n2.47062
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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2014)
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Research and Documents

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