City Research Online City, University of London Institutional Repository Citation: Goulandris, A. and McLaughlin, E. ORCID: 0000-0003-4003-3272 (2019). ‘A victim, and that’s all’: the construction of Meredith Kercher in the British national newspapers. Feminist Media Studies, doi: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1690018 This is the accepted version of the paper. This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23366/ Link to published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1690018 Copyright: City Research Online aims to make research outputs of City, University of London available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the author(s) and/or copyright holders. URLs from City Research Online may be freely distributed and linked to. Reuse: Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. City Research Online: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/
[email protected] ‘A victim, and that’s all’: the construction of Meredith Kercher in the British national newspapers Atalanta Goulandris (
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[email protected]) City, University of London Department of Sociology Rhind Building, Room D617 Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB Journal article: Feminist Media Studies, Published online: 12 December 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1690018 Abstract What journalistic techniques are employed to construct a newsworthy female murder victim in the age of social media? Focusing on Meredith Kercher’s murder, this article examines how Kercher’s victim persona was fashioned by the British national press before the arrests of Amanda Knox and two others.