Setting new(s) agendas : an introduction / Cynthia Carter, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan. Part I. The gender politics of journalism. The politics of the smile : "soft news" and the sexualisation of the popular press / Patricia Holland
One of the girls? : the changing gender of journalism / Liesbet van Zoonen
Juvenation : news, girls and power / John Hartley
Gender, privacy and publicity in "media event space" / Lisa McLaughlin
"Mrs Knight must be balanced" : methodological problems in researching early British television / Janet Thumim
Politicizing the personal : women's voices in British television documentaries / Myra Macdonald
(En)gendering the truth politics of news discourse / Stuart Allan.

Part II. The gendered realities of news. Newsroom accounts of power at work / Linda Steiner
Mass communication and the shaping of US feminism / Patricia Bradley
"Mad cows and Englishmen" : gender implications of news reporting on the British beef crisis / Rod Brookes and Beverley Holbrook
The gender-politics of news production : silenced voices and false memories / Jenny Kitzinger
Gender and the agenda : news reporting of child sexual abuse / Paula Skidmore
When the "extraordinary" becomes "ordinary" : everyday news of sexual violence / Cynthia Carter
A family affair : the British press, sex and the Wests / Maggie Wykes
Crimewatch UK : keeping women off the streets / C. Kay Weaver.