Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Indonesian Social and Political Enquiries, ICISPE 2020, 9-10 October 2020, Semarang, Indonesia

Research Article

The Essence of Female Journalist Leadership in Conventional Media at Digital Era

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.9-10-2020.2304758,
        author={Sunarto  Sunarto and Nurul  Hasfi and Amida  Yusriana and Luz  Rimban and Heni  Indrayani},
        title={The Essence of Female Journalist Leadership in Conventional Media at Digital Era},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Indonesian Social and Political Enquiries, ICISPE 2020, 9-10 October 2020, Semarang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICISPE},
        year={2021},
        month={3},
        keywords={feminist standpoint female journalist leadership},
        doi={10.4108/eai.9-10-2020.2304758}
    }
    
  • Sunarto Sunarto
    Nurul Hasfi
    Amida Yusriana
    Luz Rimban
    Heni Indrayani
    Year: 2021
    The Essence of Female Journalist Leadership in Conventional Media at Digital Era
    ICISPE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-10-2020.2304758
Sunarto Sunarto1, Nurul Hasfi1, Amida Yusriana1,*, Luz Rimban2, Heni Indrayani3
  • 1: Universitas Diponegoro
  • 2: Ateneo de Manilla University
  • 3: Universitas Dian Nuswantoro
*Contact email: amidayusriana88@gmail.com

Abstract

In era 4.0 that characterized by digital technology, the number of female journalist leader is still limited. This research aimed to describe the essence of female journalist leaders experience in doing their function. Standpoint theory in critical constructionism paradigm was applied to understand the phenomena. It assumed that male standpoint become the dominant perspective in the world. The viewpoint maintained the status quo and suppressed female standpoint. A critical phenomenology design was used to get data through in-depth interviewing virtually of several female journalists’ leaders in conventional media companies in Indonesia. The result showed that the essence of female journalists’ leadership in conventional media was to treat leadership as a tool to show the existence of themselves as child, mother, wife, worker, and individual. They used power as tool to empower themselves, female co-workers and female in general through editorial policy based on competence and media content that had gender sensitive to support political and economic interests of womenkind and company using optimally technology to adapt in the middle of pandemic and disruptive era. It seemed that feminist standpoint had not managed to overcome male standpoint in conventional media industries.