Eva Gray

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Hernandez, Sarah

Keywords

Mexico, Women, Femicide, Homicide, Latin America, News, Content Analysis, Sociology, Murder

Area of Concentration

Latin American Studies

Abstract

Since 1993, hundreds of femicides (murders of women) have gone unsolved on the US-Mexico border. This thesis is concerned with how two US newspapers, the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times, cover these femicides in Juárez, Mexico. The research looks at three separate time periods: 1996-2000, 2001-2005, and 2006-2010 in order to ascertain changes in coverage through time; I coded 32 articles. I found lower coverage in the first time period; peaking around 2001, when there was increased attention by governments and NGOs condemning the murders. The Houston Chronicle provided more frequent coverage, though it tended to be brief. This higher frequency allowed for more consistent updates on the crime investigation and criminal proceedings. The New York Times offered fewer, but more in-depth reporting, providing a broad range of opinions and critical analysis of the femicides and government and police action in response to the murders. Frame analysis allows me to explicate the ways these events are represented through these three time periods and between the two newspapers.

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