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This paper aims to the analysis of Professional women’s performance in Sports Journalism, knowing the conditions, difficulties and challenges faced by feminine genre in this working field. This observation is also timely to define the space occupied Sports Journalism in Media. Communicative impact, produced by sports information, involves two dimensions: a personal nature (competitors and spectators) and a massive level (Media). Today, sport is the most widespread social activity in media and a specialized communication need in this “glocal” panorama.

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The journalistic images are subject to debate and controversy: from the girl of Trang Bang to the most recently images of women and female kids during the earthquake and the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010, comments on the symbolic and communicative value of the pictured subject keep occurring. The press images awarded as “photo of the year” by World Press Photo in the period between 2000 and 2011 represent international conflicts and disasters where the main characters are mostly women and children, plenty of drama and pathos. The axes of the discussion are the main photography situation on the daily journal front page, against the right to privacy, the iconic representation of the sick people and victims of disasters and the social discussion through the network.

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This research addresses the analysis of the construction of the female identity in the news regarding the Female Brazilian National Soccer Team broadcasted in “Globo Esporte” and “Esporte Espectacular”, from Rede Globo de Televisão, during the 2016 Olympic Games. The identity discussions of Hall (2016), Woodward (2000) and Bhabha (1998); concepts of social representation by Moscovici (2015); the discussion of gender by Scott (1995) and stereotypes of Hall (2016), Bhabha (1998) and Moscovici (2015); as well as discussions regarding the influence of media in contemporary society by Birolli (2011) are highlighted. From the analysis of content by Bardin (2011), contrary to what was expected, there was a creation and diversification of identity models propagated through media, avoiding stereotypical images related to the female identity

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During the sixties and seventies the limited presence of women in the public sphere was reflected in the restricted repertoire of roles played by female characters in television fiction (mainly those of mothers and wives). The strengthening of the feminist movement in the following decades increased and diversified the portrayals of women in the workplace, and further encouraged academic research on the social construction of working women. Despite the relevance of female professionals in current TV shows, the importance of romantic relationships and sexuality has led to a decreasing number of studies on the subject. This article summarizes the results of a study on working women in Spanish TV fiction, part of a larger project on the construction of female identities. The research uses an original methodology that combines quantitative techniques and qualitative methods (socio-semiotics) to analyse the sample of 709 female characters. The results show a coexistence of the traditional stereotypes of working women in customer service and care-giving positions with those of highly skilled female professionals. However, the empowerment of women in positions of responsibility is often associated with a negative portrayal of the character, while the problems of reconciling family and work are systematically avoided.

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