Gender orientation

Background: Evaluatingof the correlation between news management components and gender orientation in sport newspapers in Iran was the main purpose of the present research. Method: The research method was content analysis. Statistical population of the research was five Iranian highly published sport newspapers in 2017. The sample (4290 news) was selected using cluster sampling method. Results: The results showed that news about women covered small parts of the newspapers’ pages compared with news regarding men. Conclusions: According to the results of the research, most parts of sport news in the journals focused on athletes, and this focus was in favor of men. In addition, the focus of sport print media was mainly on authorities, coaches and trainers of men’s sports.