Women and the news: Reimagining journalism

This chapter reflects on new ways to ensure social justice and to challenge gender inequality. Recalling feminism's normative viewpoints, it explores how the media can articulate women's voices, representation, and participation in the public sphere. Its starting point is Claudia Padovani and Andrew Calabrese's notion of communication rights within the frame of diverse transnational activism, sharing a common horizon in their call for "global justice". The chapter begins by discussing Nancy Fraser's transformative politics including issues of the public sphere, identity, representation, and social justice. It then explores the main ideas of Iris Marion Young and her social connection model of responsibility. Next, it extends these insights to journalism ethics, considering how journalism's paradigms can be oriented towards gender justice. Finally, it considers how media justice calls for a reimagining of journalism by implicating women as news producers, audiences, and citizens.