Stylistic Analysis: Gender Influence in Reporting and Reading News

One of the powerful media nowadays is the newspaper; everyday it is read by many people everywhere. Journalists are the main important factors for newspaper since what the journalists write convey meaning and also influence the readers who read it. Through this paper, the writers want to find out the influence of the gender in reporting news. How the female and male journalist writes and what are the differences. The writers here choose two local newspapers, that is Jawa Pos and Radar Surabaya. The writers will analyze two same news topic, but written by the different gender, one is written by the male and the other is by the female, in what way they write differently and what are the factors that influence them.