ABSTRACT

Journalism and communication courses almost unfailingly report a majority of female students such as the Journalism Students Around the Globe project (Mellado and Hanusch 2017), which has led scholars to assume a connection between the rise in the numbers of female journalists and the growth of academic journalism education. But as yet no study has been carried out to test this assumption, which has led us to probe the strength of that presumed link. A comparison between two baseline studies, David H. Weaver’s The Global Journalist (1998) and Hanitzsch et al.’s Worlds of Journalism Study (2019) provides the longitudinal perspective on the numbers of female journalists and educational attainment. The Worlds of Journalism Study data set permits us to see the percentages of women journalists, and of those having specialized in journalism or communication and their ages. The Journalism Students Around the Globe project offers not only percentages of female students but also the students’ stated intention whether they want to become journalists. Based on this data, we examine 19 countries to test the link between academic journalism education and the increase in women journalists, concluding that tertiary journalism education has contributed to the rise in the number of female journalists.

摘要

新闻学和传播学课程几乎无一例外地报告了大多数女学生，例如全球新闻学生项目（Mellado 和 Hanusch 2017），这导致学者们假设女记者人数的增加与学术界的增长之间存在联系新闻教育。但到目前为止，还没有任何研究来检验这一假设，这使我们不得不探究这种假定联系的强度。David H. Weaver 的《全球记者》（1998 年）和 Hanitzsch 等人的《新闻世界研究》 （2019 年）这两项基线研究之间的比较提供了关于女性记者数量和教育程度的纵向视角。新闻研究的世界数据集使我们能够看到女记者的百分比，以及那些专门从事新闻或传播工作的人的百分比以及她们的年龄。全球新闻学生项目不仅提供了女学生的百分比，还提供了学生是否想成为记者的明确意向。基于这些数据，我们考察了 19 个国家，以检验学术新闻教育与女性记者数量增加之间的联系，得出结论认为高等教育新闻教育促进了女性记者数量的增加。