Abstract
Violence against women (VAW) is a global issue, but historically invisible. The representation of VAW in mass media in Latin America has been an important topic for academics, politics, and civil society. Media approaches to VAW in the news in Latin America have contributed to reproduce stereotypes, and news coverage also frames public discussion concerning a woman's right to a life free of violence. Media representations of VAW tend to vary across the region. As happened in other regions of the world, the feminist characterization of domestic violence as a public issue played a leading part in framing the topic in the news media agenda. At the end of the 1980s, VAW was introduced as a topic in the crime sections of newspapers. Crime news, as a discursive genre, has its codification system to identify newsworthy events. Some of the characteristics of the crime news approach to VAW was the reproduction of gender stereotypes such as “crimes of passion” and “romantic love.” Also, news represents violence as an isolated and tragic event, not as a systemic component of gender‐based relationships.
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