Paper short abstract:

In this paper, I will analyze the coverage of the female Spanish women journalists about the conflicts in Tunisia and Lybia, to search speciffic features that will allow us to speak of a differentiated feminized patern in the way of approaching to this reality, compared to the one of their male counterparts.

Paper long abstract:

The conflicts in Tunisia and Lybia produced a great interest in the Spanish audience. In the coverage of the public television, TVE, a great number of women journalists were sent to these two countries. They were young, without not a great experience on the field and not specialized on the Arab-Islamic world. Their profile was, then, very different from the one of their male counterparts. But, did they use their gender to get into the lives of local women? Did they pay special attention to some topics normally not considered by men? To sum up: did they change the communication patterns about the Arab revolutions if we compare them with the work of the Spanish male journalists? And, in addition to these questions: what did they job offer as new elements to the Spanish audience?